Inspired by Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), and from the convergence of Cloud Computing and Web 2.0, Microservice Architecture (MSA) has recently emerged as an architectural style particularly suitable to the adoption of cloud technologies ans infrastructures. Companies like Netflix, Amazon, The Guardian have evolved their applications towards a microservice architecture. The MSA style is an approach to developing a single application as a suite of small services, each running in its own process and communicating with lightweight mechanisms. Although the set of MSA principles aims for high degrees of flexibility, modularity and evolution, adopting MSA in the real world is a challenging task and a long process. 

Even though the design principles around the microservice architectural style have been identified, many aspects are still unclear or unexplored. The goal of AMS 2017 is to gather researchers and practitioners to share challenges, solutions, and reflections on the frontiers of architecting with microservices. AMS 2017 aims at attracting contributions tackling many different levels of MSA. Examples include: MSA modelling and representation, architecture description languages for MSA, MSA functional and extra-functional analysis, MSA integration with agile processes and continuous delivery, MSA automated deployment, elasticity in and thanks to MSA. More in general, we expect research papers with a focus on either foundational contributions, concrete experimentation, and industrial applications.