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ZVAX - A Microservice Reference Architecture for Nation-Scale Pandemic Management

Authors Oliver Cvetkovski , Carlo Field, Davide Trinchi, Christof Marti, Josef Spillner

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Oliver Cvetkovski
  • Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Winterthur, Switzerland
  • University of St. Cyril and Methodius, Skopje, North Macedonia
Carlo Field
  • Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Winterthur, Switzerland
Davide Trinchi
  • Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Winterthur, Switzerland
Christof Marti
  • Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Winterthur, Switzerland
Josef Spillner
  • Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Winterthur, Switzerland

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Oliver Cvetkovski, Carlo Field, Davide Trinchi, Christof Marti, and Josef Spillner. ZVAX - A Microservice Reference Architecture for Nation-Scale Pandemic Management. In Joint Post-proceedings of the Third and Fourth International Conference on Microservices (Microservices 2020/2022). Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 111, pp. 4:1-4:16, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2023)
https://doi.org/10.4230/OASIcs.Microservices.2020-2022.4

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Domain-specific Microservice Reference Architectures (MSRA) have become relevant study objects in software technology. They facilitate the technical evaluation of service designs, compositions patterns and deployment configurations in realistic operational practice. Current knowledge about MSRA is predominantly confined to business domains with modest numbers of users per application. Due to the ongoing massive digital transformation of society, people-related online services in e-government, e-health and similar domains must be designed to be highly scalable at entire nation level at affordable infrastructure cost. With ZVAX, we present such a service in the e-health domain. Specifically, the ZVAX implementation adheres to an MSRA for pandemic-related processes such as vaccination registration and passenger locator form submission, with emphasis on selectable levels of privacy. We argue that ZVAX is valuable as study object for the training of software engineers and for the debate on arbitrary government-to-people services at scale.

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  • Computing methodologies → Distributed computing methodologies
  • Computer systems organization → Availability
  • Applied computing → E-government
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  • Nation-scale applications
  • microservices
  • digital transformation

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