The aim of the research work presented in this thesis is to help software architects in understanding the technical differences between SOA and microservices architectures and exploit some insights while migrating SOA based applications to microservices architecture. In this section, a summary of the contributions is presented.Resumen de la tesis presentada por el autor en el National Institute of Technology Warangal, India para obtener el título de Ph.D in Computer Science.Facultad de Informática