Synthetic to Real-World: Insights on Microservices-Based Application Benchmarks

This paper focuses on implementing a realis-tic microservice-based application from DeathStarBench into μBench and the challenges associated with it. Unlike traditional monolithic applications, microservice apps comprise multiple smaller components that are comparatively complex. This makes benchmarking essential. Benchmarking is a process of evaluating and comparing the performance of a system, such as efficiency, effectiveness, quality, or cost, to assess how well a particular entity is performing compared to a reference point, often referred to as a benchmark. A benchmarking tool that employs near real-world applications, extending beyond the capabilities of the existing tools. The inclusion of configuring the microservices from scratch allows for a more comprehensive understanding of application performance, which is crucial for today's complex cloud-based applications [1]. Through synthetic benchmarking, μBench simulates real-world conditions, offering a more com-plete performance analysis. In this paper, we expand the tool μBench to effectively demonstrate its proficiency in deploying and benchmarking a diverse range of microservice applications by mimicking real-world applications like DeathStarBench and Teastore, analysing the performance and resource utilisation through various tools like Kiali, Prometheus and Jaeger.