Speech focuses on the concept of antifragile architecture (according to Antifragile Software Manifesto) and principles behind it. Features of Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform are analyzed from the perspective of antifragility. To illustrate antifragile architecture principles, analogies are drawn between AWS architecture and the physiology of a human body.

1. AWS architecture
& a human body
Ostap Soroka, Ukraine

2. About the speaker
Ostap Soroka
AWS Certified Solutions Architect -
Professional
Docker Certified Associate

3. Billion years ago

4. Perfectly tailored business suits

5. Architecture v.1

6. Autoscaling
& sauna

7. Homeostasis

8. Auto Scaling

9. Auto Scaling = Homeostasis

10. DevOps approach
● Monitoring =
AWS CloudWatch
● Scaling =
EC2 AutoScaling + CloudWatch
ECS AutoScaling + CloudWatch

11. Architecture v.2

12. Donuts
& messaging

13. Blood
sugar level

14. Human
messaging
queue

15. AWS Simple Queuing Service

16. AWS Simple Queuing Service
● Asynchronous inter-process communication
● Buffers messages
● FIFO ordering
● CloudWatch metrics:
ApproximateNumberOfMessagesVisible
ApproximateNumberOfMessagesNotVisible

17. Architecture v.3

18. Cell suicide
& autohealing

19. 37 000 000 000 000 total cells
60 000 000 000 cells dead
= 0.162 % / day
Body is failing all the time
“Everything fails, all the time”
Werner Vogels, Amazon CTO

20. Apoptosis - designed to fail

21. Designing for failure
How many services are you ready to lose per
day?
● Auto-healing of EC2 instances
● EC2 Auto Scaling group
● AWS OpsWorks
● Elastic Load Balancer + Auto Scaling group

22. Treat them like cattle, not like pets

23. Architecture v.4

24. Antifragile: Things That Gain
from Disorder
Nassim Taleb
Reading

25. ● Antifragile software manifesto
● Chaos engineering
What’s next?

26. Billion years ago

27. Questions ?