MicroServices & Friends

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@YunZhiLin

1. Architecture

2. DevOps

3. Server Stack

4. Client Stack

5. Profit!

 

 

Enterprise Architecture

Enterprise Architect

  • Don't have one - shared responsibility.

  • Self organising team

  • But we make decisions a lot faster.

  • We do have some Enterprise Architect Jokes instead  

Service Evolution

Sources: PWC research

Developer Evolution 

We Had

Traditional layered architecture:

  • Silo'ed teams of BA, Designers and Dev (Conway's Law).
  • Delivery bottlenecks
  • Lack of collaboration and re-use
  • Frustrating to debug/support
  • Difficult to deploy

We now have:

MicroServices based architecture:

  • Cross functional design/dev of services
  • Parallel delivery
  • Re-usable modules across client and server
  • Easy monitoring and diagnostics.
  • Continuous Delivery

Architecture

Communal Design Decisions

KISS

(Keep It Simple Stupid)

No App Servers/War

  • Bloated in size, hogs resources, memoryleak, restarts
  • Another layer of configuration and complexity
  • Run multiple apps 1 app per server, no isolation
  • Provide Infrastructure part of the app
  • Ops - provides own toolsets vs external choices.
  • EJB support - no need in this day and age
  • $$$ and require specialists

Sources: App Servers are Dead, Stop wasting money on Application Servers

Use Standalone Apps

  • Self contained
  • Configure you app, not the app server
  • Resource isolation via docker containers
  • Java - Jetty; Netty, Undertow, or just Main()
  • Node.js - Harp, Express
  • Ruby - Rails, Sinatra
  • More on Framework later

Reference: Heroku for Java

Enterprise Service Bus

  • solves all integration problems in a box
  • fail proof

ESB In Reality

One massive app server with all the same issues

MicroServices 

vs ESB

  • Central orchestration.
  • Canonical Data Model
  • Middleware Bottleneck
  • Single point of failure
  • Smart Pipeline
  • $$$$$$

 

Need pub/sub or queuing: try light weight broker-less messaging such as ZeroMQ.

JSON/REST

vs SOAP/WSDL

{
  "streetNumber": "80",
  "streetName": "Clarence",
  "suburb": "Sydney"
}

Text

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<Property>
    <streetNumber>80</streetNumber>
    <streetName>Clarence</streetName>
    <suburb>Sydney</suburb>
</Property
PUT /hostname/properties/
<service name="Properties">
    <documentation>WSDL File for PropertyService</documentation>
    <port binding="tns:Properties" name="Properties_Port">
        <soap:address location="http://hostname/propeties/" />
    </port>
</service>

Swagger

  • Who needs WSDL or JavaDoc when you have Swagger

#YoloSwag!

Dev Ops

Who Does Dev Ops

  • No one does Dev Ops for the sake of Dev Ops
  • DevOps is a means to an end: build good software
  • Every good engineer should be Dev Ops minded

Continuous Delivery

1. GitHub triggers artefact Snap-CI pipeline 

2. Upload tested artefact to Bintray

Continuous Delivery

3. Push to Quay.io to build Docker

4. Run Container on Tutum PaaS

Continuous Delivery

5. Monitor Services using NewRelic

Why Docker

  • Resource Isolation
  • Immutable and Portable
  • Lightweight compared to VM

Small and Fast Docker

  • Take advantage of caching in Dockerfile
  • Use small base images: Alphine, BusyBox
  • CI friendly: fast build is a good build

Server Stack

Picking a Framework

  • Use the right tool for the right job
  • Do prototype spikes that cover key requirements
  • Consider the learning curve and team skill set
  • Infrastructure are on-demand, don't feel restricted
  • Performance will matter eventually, but not day 1
  • Reference TechEmpower benchmarks, or roll your own

TechEmpower Benchmarks

Don't always believe the hype!

Frameworks we use

  • Rails - the original developer productivity framework 
  • Dropwizard - Production ready out of box
  • Spring Boot - For when you really need Spring
  • RatPack - Not so easy to do the right thing

Gradle

vs Maven

repositories {
        jcenter()
        maven { url "http://dl.bintray.com/trunkplatform/osworkflow" }
    }
}

dependencies {
    compile group: 'com.trunkplatform.opensymphony', name: 'osworkflow', version: '3.1.4'
}
<repositories>
    <repository>
        <snapshots>
            <enabled>false</enabled>
        </snapshots>
        <id>bintray-trunkplatform</id>
        <name>bintray</name>
        <url>http://dl.bintray.com/trunkplatform/osworkflow</url>
    </repository>
</repositories>

<dependencies>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>com.trunkplatform.opensymphony</groupId>
        <artifactId>osworkflow</artifactId>
        <version>3.1.4</version>
        <scope>compile</scope>
    </dependency>
</dependencies>

Postgres and MySql

  • Trnk.io - MySQL via Google CloudSQL 
  • Platmasphere - Postgres via Amazon RDS
  • Postgres offers multi-tenant functionality

Dependency Injection

  • Inject dependencies as needed, rather than passing through different constructors.
  • Swapping in stub implementations for tests
  • Spring and Guice equally good. Right tool for right job

Pact

Client Stack

AngularJS

  • MVC
  • Dependency Injection
  • Static pages
  • Made by Google (?)

Gulp 

  • http://markdalgleish.github.io/presentation-build-wars-gulp-vs-grunt/
  • Streaming Builds
gulp.task('package', function() {
    return gulp.src([ 'app/**/*', 'gulp_tasks/*', 'newrelic.js', 'package.json' ], {"base": '.'})
        .pipe(tar('platmasphere-client.tar'))   
        .pipe(gzip())   
        .pipe(gulp.dest('.'));
});

Harp

  • Simple lightweight webserver
  • Precompiles CSS and HTML templates
  • No need to write any server app code 
var express = require('express')
var app = express()

app.get('/', function (req, res) {
  res.send('Hello World!')
})

var server = app.listen(9000, function () {

  var host = server.address().address
  var port = server.address().port

  console.log('Example app listening at http://%s:%s', host, port)

})
bash$ harp server .
------------
Harp v0.14.0 – Chloi Inc. 2012–2014
Your server is listening at 
http://localhost:9000/
Press Ctl+C to stop the server
------------

Profit!

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