Fifth International Workshop on Agility with Microservices Programming (AMP 2025)
Affiliated with ECSA 2025

September 15/16th 2025, Limassol, Cyprus

https://amp-workshops.github.io/

Important dates

- Abstract Submission Deadline: 12th May 2025 (AoE)
- Paper Submission Deadline: 19th May 2025 (AoE)
- Author Notification: 20th June 2025 (AoE)
- Camera Ready: 27th June 2025 (AoE)
- Workshop Date: 15th or 16th of September 2025

Theme and Topics

Transitioning to microservices-based architectures is crucial for companies in highly competitive markets, where the agility and flexibility of software systems are essential. Microservices as an architectural style facilitate agility, streamline integration, and enable more flexible solutions. However, their adoption also increases complexity and requires novel software construction techniques and advanced agile engineering practices. With the rise of large language models (LLMs), development practices increasingly incorporate AI tools, thereby opening a new field of challenges and opportunities for microservices programming.

Such distributed architectures are complex to design and require substantial expertise. Companies that decide to adopt them will need to adapt their standards, practices, and processes. Furthermore, transitioning from monolithic architecture often slows down development initially. Yet, in the era of AI-based systems and LLMs, microservices play a pivotal role in building reliable and scalable systems that meet the requirements of such data-intensive applications. AI-assisted architecting, development, and refactoring can help to design new microservices-based systems or modernize monolithic legacy applications efficiently.

The AMP workshop aims to collect experiences on microservice adoption, sharing best practices, and lessons learned from both successes and failures. We seek original work on the science and engineering of programming microservices, including but not limited to evolutionary and agile architectures, methods and tools, patterns, operational practices and DevOps, agile teams, programming languages and techniques for microservices, software quality aspects, metrics and software analytics, verification, test-driven approaches and testing, architectural refactoring, empirical studies, and experience reports on microservices adoption and teaching. We also emphasize the current trend toward AI-driven software engineering practices and the development of data-intensive applications. The workshop welcomes contributions on AI-assisted tooling, and building data-intensive applications and LLMs using microservices. Open to both practitioners and academics, the fifth edition of AMP aims to continue the success of its previous editions [1-4].

The topics include (but are not limited to):

- Software engineering methods and tools for microservices
- Enable an evolutionary and agile architecture with microservices
- Microservices in the context of AI-based data-intensive applications and LLMs
- Microservices for machine learning model operation management (MLOps)
- AI-enhanced development and refactoring of microservices-based systems
- Programming languages, techniques, and design patterns for microservices
- Operations practices for microservices and DevOps support
- Organizational dynamics and practices of agile teams working with microservices
- Software Quality, metrics, and analytics in microservice architectures
- Testing, verification, and test-driven development for microservices
- Architecture recovery and documentation strategies for microservices
- Refactoring in the context of microservice architectures
- Empirical studies and experience reports on microservices
- Teaching and learning microservices: education strategies and experiences

Contributions and Evaluation

AMP 2025 seeks original contributions of the following types (maximum length):

- Full papers: research papers, industry experiences, or case studies (between 8 and 16 pages in LNCS format, incl. references, single-blinded).
- Extended Abstracts: research papers, industry experiences, or case studies (2 to 4 pages, including references, will not appear in the proceedings).


Papers should be formatted in Springer’s LNBIP format and submitted through EasyChair:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ecsa2025
(Track: Workshop on Agility with Microservices Programming)

Accepted papers (full and short) will be published in the ECSA 2024 Proceedings (Springer). For further details, refer to the workshop website at https://amp-workshops.github.io/ and for any further queries, please contact the program chairs.

Program Chairs

Thatiane de Oliveira Rosa IFTO, BR (thatiane@ifto.edu.br)
Sandro Speth University of Stuttgart, DE (sandro.speth@iste.uni-stuttgart.de)
Jonas Fritzsch University of Stuttgart, DE (jonas.fritzsch@iste.uni-stuttgart.de)

Publicity Chairs

João Daniel, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, IT
(joaofrancisco.linodaniel@student.unibz.it)
Philip Wizenty University of Applied Sciences and Arts Dortmund, DE
(philip.wizenty@fh-dortmund.de)

Program Committee

Alceste Scalas Technical University of Denmark, DK
Alfredo Goldman University of São Paulo, BR
Andrea Melis University of Bologna, IT
Eduardo Guerra Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, IT
Carlos Solis ION Analytics, UK
Filipe Correia University of Porto, PT
Florian Rademacher RWTH Aachen University , DE
Floriment Klinaku University of Stuttgart, DE
Francisco Ponce University of Pisa, IT
Javad Ghofrani University of Luebeck, DE
Kyle Brown IBM, US
Larisa Safina INRIA Lille - Nord Europe, FR
Marco Peressotti University of Southern Denmark, DK
Michał J. Gajda Migamake Pte Ltd, PL
Saverio Giallorenzo University of Bologna, IT
Sebastian Copei University of Kassel, DE


References
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[1] https://amp.fe.up.pt/2020/
[2] https://amp.fe.up.pt/2021/
[3] https://amp.fe.up.pt/2022/
[4] https://amp.fe.up.pt/2023/