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One embodiment provides a method, including: receiving information describing an application to be split into a plurality of microservices; identifying, utilizing a microservices advisor application, application elements of the application; generating, utilizing the microservices advisor application and from the application elements, a heterogenous graph, wherein each node within the heterogenous graph represents an application element and wherein each edge within the heterogenous graph represents a relationship between two nodes connected by the edge; identifying, based upon user input identifying preferences of relationships between nodes, groups of nodes within the heterogenous graph sharing a common attribute; and providing, from the microservices advisor application, a recommendation, based upon the identified groups of nodes, for splitting the application into microservices, wherein the recommendation includes a number of microservices for the application and application elements that should be included within each of the microservices.
