FIVE RULES OF

MICROSERVICES

Armagan Amcalar

I T.A.K.E. Unconference

April 7th, 2020

Who am I?

Armagan Amcalar
Software architect, leader, mentor, speaker
Founder @ Lonca Works

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Outline

What is and is not a Microservice

An example e-commerce application

5 rules of microservices

Contemporary tools to enable true microservices

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All microservices are distributed applications.

Not every distributed application
is a microservices application.

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What is not a microservice?

Async operations with queue (and other) systems

Having 50 different queue consumers (for notifications, logging, reconciliation services, e-mailing etc) doesn’t mean you have 50 microservices

 

Multiple programs running on a single machine and communicating over HTTP

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What is a Microservice?

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If you are breaking down the fulfillment of a client request into multiple collaborating services that run in their own memory space, then you are doing microservices.

 

THE BASELINE

Microservices

The quality of your approach depends on how well you apply Domain Driven Design and other best practices.

 

You have to —

Embrace change

Give autonomy to teams, to services

Automate testing, configuration, deployment, monitoring and more

Favor cattle over pets

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An example e-commerce app

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Rule #1: Auto-discovery

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Auto-discovery

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Rule #2: Zero-configuration

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Rule #3: Highly-redundant

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Rule #4: Fault-tolerant

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Rule #5: Self-healing

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Groundwork: Orchestration Services

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Groundwork: Orchestration Services

Enable auto-discovery,

roll outs / roll backs,

self-healing,

secret & configuration management

 

Rule #1: auto-discovery

Rule #2: zero-configuration

Rule #3: Highly-redundant

Rule #5: Self-healing

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What about Rule #4: Fault-tolerance?

Circuit-breakers

Retries

Timeouts

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What we have left out

Other common concerns for modern apps

Observability

(Distributed) Tracing

Authentication

Authorization

Secrets management

Volume management

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All microservices are distributed applications.

Not every distributed application
is a microservices application.

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thank you!

Let's keep in touch!

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Five rules of Microservices

By Armağan Amcalar

Five rules of Microservices

The concept of microservices is extremely hot. Unfortunately, we see a lot of ideas from the past rebranded as microservices; whereas the thinking behind microservices imply and promise a bigger change. This talk will go over the details of what actually makes a microservices architecture and how other distributed systems — that rely on queues and other mechanisms to function — fail to fulfill the promise. A modern microservices implementation should be; * Zero-configuration * Highly-redundant * Fault-tolerant * Self-healing * Auto-discovery We will specifically focus on such an implementation with Docker and cote, a Node.js library.

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