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Tactic: Use different proxies

Tactic sort: Awesome Tactic

Type: Architectural Tactic or Software Practice

Category: green-software-practice

Tags: services

Title

Use different proxies

Description

Use the most efficient proxy that is suitable for the workload of the system. Baseline used kube-proxy; treatment used Istio.

Participant

VU researchers; SIG employees

Related software artifact

API Gateway; kube proxy; Istio proxy

Context

microservices proxies

Software feature

proxy switching logic; proxy-level packet routing

Tactic intent

resource efficiency

Target quality attribute

energy consumption

Other related quality attributes

response time; throughput

Measured impact

t-test

Source

On the Effectiveness of Microservices Tactics and Patterns to Reduce Energy Consumption: An Experimental Study on Trade-Offs (DOI: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2501.14402)