How to become an architect in the cloud?
Architecture + Cloud + FinOps = <3
Who am I?
Piotr Stapp
- Unique name - just sing a song: "Don't Stapp me know" ;)
- CEO @ Dotnetomaniak
- Author @ PoznajKubernetes & PoznajDocker
- ex - Senior software/DevOps/Architect @mBank/@FinAi/@Allegro
- SAFe System Principal Architect @ Demant Technology Center
- M.Sc (distction) Oxford Brooks University in Web Tech
- M.Sc. Warsaw University of Technology in Computer Science
- And ......
Agile -> Scrum -> SAFe
Who are you?
Use the phone, Luke!
Favorite cloud
Cloud results after voting 🙈🙊🙉
Context
Numbers
- 5k - 50k - 500k ? (Wembley Stadium == 90k)
- A few important LIVE sessions (e.g. contest finals)
- Peak usage
- $$$ is very important
Architecture
TODO list
- Hosting
- Database
- Users data (accounts + passwords)
- To SPA or not to SPA? That is the question!
- Man power
Soft(ware) decisions
To containerize or
not to containerize
Which JavaScript framework is the best?
User Data Storage
accounts and passwords
Old days
Receipe
- Take one technology that you <3
- Apply the first tutorial about user accounts
- Or copy some stuff from previous project
My case
- .NET Framework (a good one)
- Avoided problems:
- Passwords with base64
- SQL injection
- In PHP, NodeJS, Java, .... - situation is simmilar
Seriously!
Today
The incomplete list
- Dedicated tools for user management:
- Active Directory
- OpenLDAP
- ...
- Ready to deploy and use:
- Keycloak,
- Identity Server 4
- ...
- SaaS:
- Auth0
- Userbase
- Azure B2C
Candidates
"Self-hosted"
- My own with NuGet / Maven / NPM / pip / ... support
- Active Directory / OpenLDAP / ...
- Keycloak / Identity Server 4 / ...
SaaS
- SaaS outside Azure: Auth0
- "SaaS" inside Azure: Azure B2C
- Totally "unknow" SaaS: Userbase
SaaS Features
- Facebook / Twitter / Github / .... login
- MFA with application and SMS
- FIDO2
- Custom domain
- Custom CSS
- ....
Money
"Have I Been Pwned"?
My decision was affected by
Hosting
The incomplete list
No containers
- Azure Web App
- Azure Storage + Azure CDN + ...
- Azure Functions
- Azure SignalR + static web page + X
- Virtual Machine
Containers
- Azure Container Instances
- Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
- Azure Container Apps
- Azure Web App
- Virtual machine
Upfront + static costs
No containers
- Azure Web App
- Azure Storage + Azure CDN + ...
- Azure Functions
- Azure SignalR + static web page + X
- Virtual Machine
Containers
- Azure Container Instances
- Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
- Azure Container Apps
- Azure Web App
- Virtual machine
Easy to scale up
No containers
- Azure Web App
- Azure Storage + Azure CDN + ...
- Azure Functions
- Azure SignalR + static web page + X
- Virtual Machine
Containers
- Azure Container Instances
- Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
- Azure Container Apps
- Azure Web App
- Virtual machine
Easy to scale down
No containers
- Azure Web App
- Azure Storage + Azure CDN + ...
- Azure Functions
- Azure SignalR + static web page + X
- Virtual Machine
Containers
- Azure Container Instances
- Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
- Azure Container Apps
- Azure Web App
- Virtual machine
Cost per request
No containers
- Azure Web App
- Azure Storage + Azure CDN + ...
- Azure Functions
- Azure SignalR + static web page + X
- Virtual Machine
Containers
- Azure Container Instances
- Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
- Azure Container Apps
- Azure Web App
- Virtual machine
DevEx
No containers
- Azure Web App
- Azure Storage + Azure CDN + ...
- Azure Functions
- Azure SignalR + static web page + X
- Virtual Machine
Containers
- Azure Container Instances
- Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
- Azure Container Apps
- Azure Web App
- Virtual machine
Enough?
Voting (multiple)
What?
Database
Small recap
- Usage won't be "stable"
- There will be usage peaks
- A few days will have much more load than the rest of month/year
Conclusions
- We cannot predict what will happen
- Performance should be stable, but usage is a time function
- Probably a lot of data will be static and can be handled by cache
NoSQL
- Great, isn't it?
- New, isn't it?
SQL
- Solid, isn't it?
- Well known, isn't it?
Options
- Self-hosted "custom" one on VM's
- Azure Storage
- Cosmos DB
- "Native"
- Mongo
- GraphQL
- ....
- SQL as a Service
- MSSQL
- Postgres
- MySQL
- MariaDB
Custom stuff on VM's
Before you decide, you should know
- why PaaS DB won't work for you
- how to manage this custom stuff
Azure Storage
- Very cheap
- Simple key-value or "file database"
- Limit for maximum number of operations
- Used by https://haveibeenpwned.com/
In other words, if I want 100GB of storage and I want to hit it 10 million times, it’ll cost me $8 a month.
Azure SQL for ...
Cosmos DB
- "SQL", API for MongoDB, Gremlin, Cassandra, Table, ...
- Key-vaule, Column-Family, Documents, Graph
- Pricing:
- Standard
- Auto-scale
- Serverless
- Dynamic scaling? Yes!!
- No relations 🙊🙉🙈
What about ...
- DB2🙈 (check: IBM DB2 Azure Virtual Machines DBMS)
- Oracle 🙉 (check: Oracle Database Service for Microsoft Azure)
- Redis🙊 (check: Azure Cache for Redis)
- ....
Options
- Self-hosted "custom" one on VM's
- Azure Storage
- Cosmos DB
- SQL as a Service
Voting
Small things
14 Rules by Steve Sounders
- Make Fewer HTTP Requests
- Use a Content Delivery Network
- Add an Expires Header
- Gzip Components
- Put Stylesheets at the Top
- Put Scripts at the Bottom
- Avoid CSS Expressions
- Make JavaScript and CSS External
- Reduce DNS Lookups
- Minify JavaScript
- Avoid Redirects
- Remove Duplicate Scripts
- Configure ETags
- Make AJAX Cacheable
Small "things"
- HTTP/2 (or even HTTP/3)
- SSL certificate
- First Contentful Paint
- CDN++
- And some points from 14 Rules for Faster-Loading Web Sites
Cloudflare (free)
- Make Fewer HTTP Requests - ✅
- Use a Content Delivery Network - ✅
- Add an Expires Header - ✅
- Gzip Components - ✅
- Put Stylesheets at the Top - ⚠️
- Put Scripts at the Bottom - ⚠️
- Avoid CSS Expressions - ❌
- Make JavaScript and CSS External - ❌
- Reduce DNS Lookups - ✅
- Minify JavaScript - ✅
- Avoid Redirects - ✅/⚠️
- Remove Duplicate Scripts - ✅
- Configure ETags - ✅
- Make AJAX Cacheable - ❌
Other "small things"
- CDN
- DDoS
- SSL (auto-magic)
- WAF
- Image optimization
- AMP
Cloudflare
- CDN - FREE
- DDoS - FREE
- SSL (auto-magic) - FREE
- WAF - PRO
- Image optimization - PRO
- AMP - PRO
Total: $20/month
Need more? $200/month
Azure Frontdoor
- CDN - Standard
- DDoS - Premium
- SSL (auto-magic) - Standard
- WAF - Standard
- Image optimization - custom function
- AMP - custom function
Total: $35/month - Standard
$330/month - Premium
+ custom code 🤪
Voting
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How to become an architect in the cloud
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