# Microvision: Static analysis-based approach to visualizing microservices in augmented reality

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.02974 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2207.02974/

## Key facts

- Cited by 1 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 6 Jul 2022.

## Built on by (most cited first, 1 of 1)

- [Autonomic Microservice Management via Agentic AI and MAPE-K Integration](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2506.22185/) (2025)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Microservices are supporting digital transformation; however, fundamental tools and system perspectives are missing to better observe, understand, and manage these systems, their properties, and their dependencies. Microservices architecture leans toward decentralization, which yields many advantages to system operation; it, however, brings challenges to their development. Microservices lack a system-centric perspective to better cope with system evolution and quality assessment. In this work, we explore microservice-specific architecture reconstruction based on static analysis. Such reconstruction typically results in system models to visualize selected system-centric perspectives. Conventional models are limited in utility when the service cardinality is high. We consider an alternative data visualization using 3D space using augmented reality. To begin testing the feasibility of deriving such perspectives from microservice systems, we developed and implemented prototype tools for software architecture reconstruction and visualization of compared perspectives.