Our first worldwide used backend service
The App Inspiration Service
Key advantages
- Generally allowed us to move faster
- Share code between platforms
- Changes & improvements separate from App releases
- Having access to non-public services
- Helped to understand other squads & services better
Architecture
Initial architecture
Blocker!
- Cached prices in EMEA - APAC DCs are not in sync
- Displayed prices in Asia were terrible
- Had to move fast and release in multi-region
- API Gateway reliability issues
Multi-region architecture
Multi-region challenges
- Setup Apps Tribe ECS cluster in 3 AWS regions
- Use public Elastic Load Balancers
- Resolve Slingshot public deployment issue
- Understanding & configuring Akamai for Geo-based routing
- Health-check setup for Akamai and AWS-DC links
- Monitoring & alerting setup for all regions
TO DO?
- Proper green-flag system
- Better VictorOps rotation
- Improved Inspiration Service metrics
- Microservice Shell integration!
- Continuous deployment
- Syncing & using Skyscanner-standard solutions