Headless approach for offloading heavy tasks in Magento

Headless approach
With Magento

Sander Mangel
- Magento Developer
- Lead @ FitForMe
- Co-organiser MMNL,
Unconf, MageStackDay,
Meetups
- Avid community member
twitter.com/sandermangel
linkedin.com/in/sandermangel
github.com/sandermangel

Welcome to 2017
welcome to the future...

Read more
http://bit.ly/2qo6XBc
http://bit.ly/1Wku9c0
http://bit.ly/2rtVIas
http://bit.ly/2qrkQKP
http://bit.ly/2hyM6Dy
Source: https://laughingsquid.com/victorian-headless-portrait-photography/

What is headless architecture
Source: https://pantheon.io/blog/headless-websites-whats-big-deal-decoupled-architecture

What is headless architecture
"Headless architecture means an application offering APIs that abstract away business logic
for a multitude of clients to consistently and repeatedly execute the same tasks."

Clients
● Fulfillment dashboard
● Magento backend
● Magento frontend
● ...

● Magento will be a client & provide data
● Implement a basic data warehouse
● Which is fed by, and queried by various
services separated by domains
● Isolate data & business logic per domain
So we take a different approach

Leverage middleware for a stable environment
storage
source consumer server

Leverage middleware for a stable environment
● Normalize & combine data
● Offer stable APIs for clients
● Insulate from future changes
storage
source consumer server

Source: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/business-analysisits-rocket-science-paul-lumsden

http://matrix.wikia.com/wiki/Matrix

{
"name": "ffm/headless-middleware",
"description": "Basic middleware for a remote API call",
"license": "MIT",
"authors": [],
"require": {
"php": ">=7.0",
"slim/slim": "^3.1",
"monolog/monolog": "^1.17",
"cache/filesystem-adapter": "^0.4.0",
"guzzlehttp/guzzle": "^6.2",
"cache/array-adapter": "^0.5.0",
"illuminate/database": "^5.4",
"yadakhov/insert-on-duplicate-key": "^1.1",
"symfony/console": "^3.3",
"league/oauth1-client": "^1.7"
},
"require-dev": {
"phpunit/phpunit": "^6.0",
"roave/security-advisories": "dev-master",
"friendsofphp/php-cs-fixer": "^2.1",
"phpmd/phpmd": "^2.6",
"phpro/grumphp": "^0.11.5",
"phpspec/phpspec": "^3.3",
"phpstan/phpstan": "^0.6.4",
"nikic/php-parser": "^3.0"
},
"autoload": {
"psr-4": {
"Ffm": "src/"
}
},
"autoload-dev": {
"psr-4": {
"Tests": "tests/"
}
},
"scripts": {
"start": "php -S 0.0.0.0:8080 -t public public/index.php",
"test": "grumphp run"
}
}
Source: https://github.com/sandermangel/headless-middleware

● There is a solution for everything
already out there
● Use popular libraries, preferably
adhering to a PSR protocol
● Don't overcomplicate dependency
injection
● Think carefully about what you need and
spend time finding the best option
Build on standardised libraries
[...]
"require": {
"php": ">=7.0",
}
[...]

● slimphp - Routing, DI
● monolog - gives insight in what the
service does for monitoring and
debugging
● cache/… - stores certain API calls,
temporary data
● guzzle - offers a way to consume APIs
over http
● illuminate/database - Laravel ORM
(personal preference)
● Insert-on-duplicate.... - not a default
option in illuminate/database but a
must for me
● symfony/console - for cronjobs and
commandline tasks
● league/oauth1-client - offers built in
Magento 1 REST integration
Everything has a purpose
[...]
"require": {
"php": ">=7.0",
}
[...]

● SlimPHP project as basis
● One module in src some basic setup
files needed by SlimPHP
● Keep it simple and self-contained
Structure

● SQL based / relational
● Offer good performance up to 1TB data
● Easy to integrate
● Be the best solution for the upcoming
year
Choice of database

● Read only
● Offer sorting, filtering, and a host of
other query options
● Be very fast (d'oh)
● Be standardised & easily scalable
Making data available for clients
Source: https://www.archaeological.org/fieldwork/afob/10374#

Search
Leveraging the built in REST api of
Elastic we had a ready to go layer.
We decided to leave that 'as is' and
deal with changes in data structure or
due to a version upgrade as they come
Each search result has, next to the
record data, a reference to a UID from
the SQL database to retrieve the full
data set.

Datasets
● As stated the API server is read
only
● For each dataset (a table in a
database) there is one endpoint
● Simple filter methods on one or
more fields
● Each returned dataset has
reference UIDs to other records
that are tied to this item.
So for customers this can be
orders or addresses
● Multiple API calls over large or
joined datasets

● By offloading tasks from Magento we
keep it fast and lightweight
● Storing data in a central place and
making it available via REST apis makes
for easy integration
● Headless can start by adding some of
those APIs to the existing back- or
frontend
● Using lightweight php frameworks with
limited features makes for easy to
develop and fast applications
Summary
Source: https://www.archaeological.org/fieldwork/afob/10374#

https://joind.in/talk/8365d
Code:
https://github.com/sandermangel/headl
ess-middleware
twitter.com/sandermangel
github.com/sandermangel

Headless approach for offloading heavy tasks in Magento

More Related Content

What's hot

Similar to Headless approach for offloading heavy tasks in Magento

More from Sander Mangel

Recently uploaded

Headless approach for offloading heavy tasks in Magento