DOCKER-BASED MONOLITHIC AND MICROSERVICES ARCHITECTURE PERFORMANCE COMPARISON

Deni Panji Dirgantara; Dana Sulistyo Kusumo; Rio Guntur Utomo

doi:10.52436/1.jutif.2024.5.2.1338

Deni Panji Dirgantara Information Technology Department, School of Computing, Telkom University, Indonesia
Dana Sulistyo Kusumo Software Engineering Department, School of Computing, Telkom University, Indonesia
Rio Guntur Utomo Information Technology Department, School of Computing, Telkom University, Indonesia

DOI: https://doi.org/10.52436/1.jutif.2024.5.2.1338

Keywords: docker, microservices architecture, monolithic architecture, performance comparison

Abstract

Most developers still use the monolithic architecture, where all components of an application are combined into one integrated system, so each part depends on other components. The monolithic architecture has weaknesses, such as when a failure occurs in one component, all parts cannot be executed because each component relies on one other component. Microservices can be a solution to this, considering that in the microservices architecture, each element or service is created and put separately, so when a failure occurs in one component, other components will not be affected and can still run normally. This research aims to determine the implementation and performance comparison between monolithic architecture and microservices Architecture in the Agreeculture Market web app. Agreeculture Market is a web application that aims to facilitate the transaction process of agricultural commodities and make it easier for agricultural commodity producers to market their products. The measurement method used to measure the performance of both architectures is load testing using JMeter and performance tools from task manager and comparing the response time, throughput, disk usage, CPU usage, and memory usage of both used architectures. With two measurement schemes with Docker and without Docker, the result of this research is a performance comparison between the two architectures, where the backend application Agreeculture Market, which uses microservices architecture with Docker and API gateway, performs better than the monolithic architecture version. Conversely, the monolithic architecture performs better than the microservices architecture in the scheme without Docker and API gateway.

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