CELLULAR ARCHITECTURE IN CLOUD COMPUTING: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW ON RESILIENCE, SCALABILITY AND EMERGING TRENDS
Keywords:
Cell-Based Architecture, Cloud Computing, Resilience, Scalability, Distributed SystemsAbstract
This article presents a systematic literature review on the application of Cell-Based Architecture (CBA) in cloud computing, focusing on its impacts on the resilience, scalability, and governance of distributed systems. The analysis of 28 papers selected between 2022 and 2025 revealed that CBA promotes fault isolation, selective scalability, and reduced incident recovery time through the logical segmentation of applications into autonomous cells. Case studies at companies such as Slack and DoorDash demonstrated concrete benefits, but also highlighted challenges related to operational complexity, infrastructure replication, and data consistency. The discussion also addressed emerging trends, such as the use of community detection algorithms, service mesh integration, and artificial intelligence for auto-scaling. The conclusion is that CBA represents a promising architectural model, whose adoption requires technical maturity, advanced automation, and organizational alignment with modern software engineering practices.
