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Middleware makes it easier for software developers to implement
communication and input/output, so they can focus on the specific purpose
of their application. It gained popularity in the 1980s as a solution to the
problem of how to link newer applications to older legacy systems, although
the term had been in use since 1968.[2]
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Twelve factor-app
- 1. Twelve-Factor App + Middleware Buildthe Future and Prevent Outages José Javier Vélez-Colón
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- 3. Overview Microservices ShiftingArchitecture Continuous Integration, Delivery Concurrency App Service Conclusion Middleware makes it easier for software developers to implement communication and input/output, so they can focus on the specific purpose of their application. It gained popularity in the 1980s as a solution to the problem of how to link newer applications to older legacy systems, although the term had been in use since 1968.[2] Wikipedia! Where is the middleware depicted in the picture?
- 4. Lets be morespecific Overview Microservices Shifting Architecture Continuous Integration, Delivery Concurrency App Service Conclusion
- 5. Who offers middlewareand can you avoid it? Do it yourself (DIY) – App Service/IIS Logic Apps/Mulesoft/hundreds of other vendors Features Send Mail Yes Yes Connect to Symitar Yes Yes Connect to Temenos Yes No Many other features Always yes… Maybe…. Points to take home • It is nearly impossible to avoid middleware in a line of business application. I had trouble even finding a ficticious scenario where there would not be middleware…I imagined it would involved an Igloo and Antarctica. • There is no silver bullet solution for all projects. Each of them have to evaluated individually and the right architecture should be decided per project basis. • Use guardrails (best practices to guide the architectural decision but don’t push a product). • Middleware is a pipeline of how data is transmitted from point A to point B and is not a product
- 6. What is aTwelve-Factor App? A 12-Factor app is a web app that follows the prescriptive methodology conceived by the Heroku platform as a service (PaaS) for cloud applications. Benefits include: Overview Microservices Shifting Architecture Continuous Integration, Delivery Concurrency App Service Conclusion Scalability Resiliency Continuous Delivery Maintainability Information Security
- 7. + Pros » Fastersoftware delivery. » Better security. » Team unity and understanding of each other’s roles. » Team works as a unit to succeed and has ownership of the overall project success. » Microservices do not require teams to rewrite the whole app if they want to add new features. » Smaller codebases make maintenance easier and faster; saving a lot of development effort and time, thus increasing overall productivity. » Configuration drift is reduced. » The parts of an app can be scaled separately and are easier to deploy. » Reduce outages – uptime! Overview Microservices Shifting Architecture Continuous Integration, Delivery Concurrency App Service Conclusion
- 8. - Cons » Verycomplicated –need to bring in experienced staff to handle the complexity. » Most invest heavily in monitoring tools, such as Dynatrace. » Larger vector of attack – must invest in SIEM, CASB, PDP, and other third party tools to maintain safety and data governance. » Product owners must be willing to invest in their infrastructure and long term speed to market. Overview Microservices Shifting Architecture Continuous Integration, Delivery Concurrency Docker Conclusion
- 9. Summary of Impact BusinessUnit Impact PMO/ProductO wners As product owners, they will be able to have faster release cycles in the long term, but the initial learning curve within teams will delay their deployments. QA They will have to automate their tests because the impact could be downstream. In addition, each version of the API has to have its own unique test since you do not upgrade microservices, rather you simply deploy a new one. Infrastructure The will have to become part of the sprints. Operations They will have to become part of the sprints for new project developments that involve APIs or web apps. Info Sec Their team has a larger vector of attack to cover. Desktop Support Not affected. Overview Microservices Shifting Architecture Continuous Integration, Delivery Concurrency App Service Conclusion
- 10. Microservices – Difficultto Manage? A 12-factor app inherently uses microservices. What are microservices and are they something we can manage? “Death Star” Architecture Diagrams Netflix Gilt Groupe (12 of 450) Twitter Overview Microservices Shifting Architecture Continuous Integration, Delivery Concurrency App Service Conclusion
- 11. API Management • Accessto APIs will be controlled using Azure AD authentication. • API gateway serves as the linking point for all services (internal + external). • API management platform integrates with our continuous integration infrastructure. • Developer portal serves as a single point of interaction across all developers to. access/understand/develop/deploy APIs. • Mulesoft serves as the API Development and Orchestration Platform. Overview Microservices Shifting Architecture Continuous Integration, Delivery Concurrency App Service Conclusion
- 12. Internal - FirstApp (Avoka), (Salesforce) Partners – Alkami.. Others! Public - Member or any third party developed– Rate Lookup, Branch Locations, Products API Execution Business Friendly Micro-Services (REST) Orchestration to Tie Multiple Micro- Services Exception Handling Mapping to Downstream End Points Security – Access, Authentication, Certification, Monitoring Standards Conformation DocumentationDiscovery Monetization API Monitoring API Management Code Management Jenkins Backlog Core/Block Chain Lending Mortgage Products Analytics …….. Can be anywhere On Prem, Cloud, Hosted, etc. Example Conceptual Architecture of API-Driven FI External Services Overview Microservices Shifting Architecture Continuous Integration, Delivery Concurrency App Service Conclusion
- 13. Conceptual Microservices Architecture SPA& Mobile App Mobile App Backends for Frontends Microservices for mobile Microservices for SPA RDB Remote Service NoSQL Strangler API Gateway GatewayRouting &Aggregation Microservice Ambassad or Sidecar Anti-corruption Layer Legacy System RDB Microservice Ambassad or Sidecar Microservice Ambassad or Sidecar Gateway Offloading Overview Microservices Shifting Architecture Continuous Integration, Delivery Concurrency App Service Conclusion
- 14. Microservices Architecture Example OverviewMicroservices Shifting Architecture Continuous Integration, Delivery Concurrency App Service Conclusion Mobile App AVOKA API Gateway Firewall CASB SIEM Other APIs Load Balanced Core API Services Ambassado r Azure Function/ Azure Event Grid For MQ Processing App Service Logic App Policy Decision Point (PDP) XACML API FAÇADE Anti-Corruption Layer Legacy Technology (Jack Henry Symitar) SPLUNK Azure ASE ILB Ambassad or P2P AZURE ASE ILB Ambassador Backend for Frontend NoSQL/ SQL Server WAF
- 15. Typical 3-Tier Architecture PresentationTier The top-most level of the app is the UI. The main function of the interface is to translate tasks and results to something that the user can understand. Logic Tier This layer coordinates the app, processes commands, makes logical decisions and evaluations, and performs calculations. It also moves and processes data between the two surrounding layers. Data Tier In this layer, information is stored and retrieved from a database or file system. The information is then passed back to the logic tier for processing, and then eventually back to the user. >GET SALES TOTAL >GET SALES TOTAL 4 TOTAL SALES Get list of all sales made last year DatabaseStorage Add all sales together Query Sale 1 Sale 2 Sale 3 Sale 4 Overview Microservices Shifting Architecture Continuous Integration, Delivery Concurrency App Service Conclusion
- 16. Hexagonal Architecture Application HTML5 App TestAgent REST Adapter SOAP Adapter TEST Adapter EI Adapter MQ Adapter SQL Adapter NoSQL Adapter Environme nt Adapter ERP CRM DOC s File Source Adapter Enterprise Integration Web Services Database Configuration Messaging Queue Overview Microservices Shifting Architecture Continuous Integration, Delivery Concurrency App Service Conclusion
- 17. Example App Builtfor Speed Application Services (Gateway/Edge Svc) Read Model Microservice UI Request (HTTP) Redis Commands & Queries SQL Server Domain Microservice RabbitMQ Commands Queries Events Domain Events Precomputed Results Overview Microservices Shifting Architecture Continuous Integration, Delivery Concurrency App Service Conclusion
- 18. Requirement Codebase Production Staging Developer 1 Developer 2 Deploys OverviewMicroservices Shifting Architecture Continuous Integration, Delivery Concurrency App Service Conclusion
- 19. Solution Developer GitHub Team City Code Coverage +TDD Git Push GitHub Pull Request Review Pass Code Review? Merge Master/ Staging/QA/Dev Yes Azure DevOps Build No Trigger Prod Environment Staging Environment QA Environment Dev Environment Communicates with Pass Overview Microservices Shifting Architecture Continuous Integration, Delivery Concurrency App Service Conclusion
- 20. Dependencies Requirement A twelve-factorapp that never relies on the implicit existence of system-wide packages. It declares all dependencies, completely and exactly, via a dependency declaration manifest. Solution • NuGet Server + NPM • NuGet Gallery is the central package repository used by all package authors and consumers. • NPM is the package manager for JavaScript and the world’s largest software registry; it can be used to discover packages of reusable code and assemble them in powerful new ways. Overview Microservices Shifting Architecture Continuous Integration, Delivery Concurrency App Service Conclusion
- 21. Present » Copy NuGetpackages to a local share and have everyone read off of that. » We have a private repository bldsrvr- dev02NuGet Repository for all our NuGet packages. By configuring the NuGet Package Manager within VS we gain access. Alternative » Obtain a license for myget and store the nugget packages there. Dependencies: NuGet Server Overview Microservices Shifting Architecture Continuous Integration, Delivery Concurrency App Service Conclusion
- 22. Requirement An app’s configis everything that is likely to vary between deployment environments (staging, production, developer, etc.) Solution » .NET projects use: web.config machine.config project.json (appsettings.jso n) Configuration Anything that varies per environment: Overview Microservices Shifting Architecture Continuous Integration, Delivery Concurrency App Service Conclusion
- 23. Backing Services » Resourcescan be attached and detached to deploys at will. » For example, if the app’s database is misbehaving due to a hardware issue, the app’s administrator might spin up a new database server restored from a recent backup. » The current production database could be detached, and the new database attached—all without any code changes. Overview Microservices Shifting Architecture Continuous Integration, Delivery Concurrency App Service Conclusion
- 24. Concurrency Applications sometimes needto run: • Batch jobs • Emails • Workflows • Other complex logic A good UX would not wait for all the services to be completed for the user to continue interacting with the app. What is concurrency in the context of a twelve factor app? Overview Microservices Shifting Architecture Continuous Integration, Delivery Concurrency App Service Conclusion
- 25. Logic Apps Logic Appsis a fully managed iPaaS (integration Platform as a Service) that handles hosting, scalability, availability, and management—so developers don’t have to. It can scale up automatically to meet demand. Key features: • Save time by designing complex processes using easy to understand design tools. • Seamlessly implement patterns and workflows that would otherwise be difficult to implement in code. • Get started quickly from templates. • Connectors to many cloud apps, such as Salesforce, FTP, SQL Server, SharePoint, etc. Overview Microservices Shifting Architecture Continuous Integration, Delivery Concurrency App Service Conclusion
- 26. Logic Apps /AppService When a record is updated Transform XML Register in Datamart If record requires action Add to Service Bus topic If Yes If No Create a new record Slack – Post Message Execute stored procedure Add an action Add an action Overview Microservices Shifting Architecture Continuous Integration, Delivery Concurrency App Service Conclusion
- 27. Disposability Requirement Deploying newcode should not affect production services startup times. Solution App Service allows you to have the right amount of resources running to handle the load on an app. It allows you to add resources to handle increases in load and also save money by removing resources that are sitting idle. Max = 5 VM VM Min = 2 3 currently running VM VM VM +/- VMs as needed Overview Microservices Shifting Architecture Continuous Integration, Delivery Concurrency App Service Conclusion
- 28. Infrastructure » Training » OperationsTools Azure Container Registry Security Management Monitoring and logging Developers » Learn a microservices approach » Learn .NET core and avoid IIS deployments Training » Continuous » Frequent » Bring experts on site to teach and evaluate practices Change Management » Change in culture » Change in team structures » Product owner has to understand the long term investment and that dev will slow down at first. Ok, I’m Sold – Let’s Begin Today… First, let’s consider the following: Overview Microservices Shifting Architecture Continuous Integration, Delivery Concurrency App Service Conclusion
- 29. DevOps Developers must workwith Operations from the start of the project and they have to be included during the sprint planning as part of the ongoing work to devise the architecture and deploy it! When you have developers working alongside Operations, you get DevOps! Overview Microservices Shifting Architecture Continuous Integration, Delivery Concurrency Docker Conclusion
- 30. Change + VisualManagement – Part I Communicating/disseminating our plan: • Roadmap How are we going to get from our current state to our future state? What are our requirements and assumptions? How does our future state link to our business and quality values? How do we measure success? • Elevator speech – consistent messaging/signaling during scrums and meetings What did we agree on and how did we make this decision? What does the future state look like? Why are we making the change? How does everyone fit into the planning and execution of the future state? Overview Microservices Shifting Architecture Continuous Integration, Delivery Concurrency App Service Conclusion
- 31. Change + VisualManagement – Part II Tracking our progress and keeping ourselves accountable using visual management tools: • SWOT analysis/pre-assessment • SMART objectives and action items • Desired outcome • Tool, service, framework, or process to achieve the item • Responsible parties (RASCI matrix) • Key milestones • Due dates • Measures of success Overview Microservices Shifting Architecture Continuous Integration, Delivery Concurrency App Service Conclusion
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Editor's Notes
- #5 Middleware is the green section. The bottom part – Presentation Logic Tier, Business Logic Tier and Data Access Tier explains the responsibility of Middleware.
- #7 A set of recommendations for how to build software as service.
- #9 Here are some of the predictable challenges.
- #11 What you’re looking at are the microservices architecture for 3 different companies. The Netflix death star is what powers Netflix today. The reason why millions of people can watch high-bandwidth, high-quality movies is because of this microservices architecture. The same applies for Gilt and Twitter.
- #12 Because of how the 12-factor app is architected, it will be very difficult to have a successful 12-factor app without an API management platform. That’s why we are going to discuss what it is and how it can help.
- #13 The main purpose of this slide is to give a high-level overview of the role of an API management platform.
- #14 What we’re seeing here is a conceptual strategy for how to implement an API management platform and at the same time have services that are from before the adoption of the API management framework. The main idea is that the strangler is the as-is architecture and the API gateway is where newer APIs are deployed, where APIs that are stranglers are eventually migrated to. The ambassadors are reusable logic that is deployed alongside each microservices, whereas a sidecar might be logic that pertains to that specific microservice. The microservice is the definition of the API.
- #15 Now, I have taken the previous slide showing a conceptual architecture and this one is meant to represent an example closer to home.
- #16 Traditionally 3-tier architecture have 3 layers: The presentation, which is HTML or XAML. The logic tier, which is middleware. And, the data tier, which comprise the databases.
- #17 The core of a 12-factor app is a hexagonal architecture. It is self-hosted and communicates with other components through port-binding. Its configuration does not reside in the application itself, but externally. And, it’s data storage is swappable without affecting the app. This can be achieved through a microservices architecture.
- #18 Here is an example of how a 12-factor app may segregate its logic for reading and writing. Now, this particular architecture is built for speed. So over here, we have the API gateway, which segregates, reads, and writes. If it is a write, it goes through a middleware and eventually is saved into SQL Server. At the same time, it is saved into a message queue and eventually the microservice is a subscriber of that topic and passes the results to Redis. When a read operation occurs, it is routed to the read microservice, in which case, it utilizes Redis for an extremely fast experience and dataset results. This is due to Redis reads being much faster than relational databases.
- #19 A 12-factor app can be deployed to any environment readily and reliably.
- #20 A solution that was proposed and accepted recently by FTFCU utilizes Octopus Deploy, Team City, and GitHub for continuous integration and continuous delivery. This helps us achieve one of the fundamental goals of a 12-factor application.
- #21 A 12-factor app declares all of its dependencies within itself. This can be achieved through a NuGet service and the utilization of NPM packages.
- #22 Today we are storing NuGet packages in a shared drive. However, in my opinion, a more compelling alternative is to utilize the Team City NuGet repository to host the packages.
- #23 In order to achieve the 12-factor app desire to separate the configuration from the application, once again, Octopus deploy can help us store and orchestrate our configurations for each environment; that is, dev, QA, staging, and production, automatically.
- #24 A 12-factor application requires resources, such as databases, be detached and re-attached without code changes. But, let’s think about a scenario where a database is in a different server and therefore, your connections strings that are controlled, as mentioned before, have to point to a generic end point. This can be achieved through an Octopus deploy step to update the configurations.
- #25 Many applications today require complex logic in the background to occur, such that simply asking a potential user of the application to wait until those processes are completed would result in an undesirable user experience. A common scenario for this type of process is a credit card application, where a decision may take sometimes hours or even days to complete.
- #26 Currently, we solve this problem by utilizing BizTalk. An alternative approach is to utilize Azure Logic Apps. Logic Apps can connect to on-prem resources, as well as to any cloud providers, including our own cloud infrastructure. It also provides common connectors that expedite communication between many cloud apps, such as Salesforce, FTP, SQL Server, SharePoint, Twitter, etc.
- #27 Here is an example of what a Logic App look like within Azure.
- #28 Another requirement of a 12-factor app is that it can be scaled up or down. Docker is a platform that facilitates the scaling of the 12-factor application. For more info, see: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/monitoring-and-diagnostics/monitoring-overview-autoscale
- #29 So even though we might want to start this today, there are a few considerations to explore: We need the tooling Training for both the developers, infrastructure, security, and CBA More importantly, it’s about changing the culture from silos to teams that are together responsible for the success of a 12-factor app and the microservices that power it.
- #31 This vision can not be achieved in a silo and this is what we are going to do as an organization. We, IT and the business, must join together to address these questions. Enterprise architecture can guide the organization through a path to success, but can not alone dictate the solution to these concerns.
- #32 SMART (specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, timebound) SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats)