- Practical example of simplifying full-stack development and testing routines using containerisation and orchestration techniques. - Sample application: data streaming app with React.js / Apache Kafka / Java SpringBoot / Elasticsearch based on Docker / Kubernetes orchestration. - Sample app showcase.

1. Full-stack, Full-run, Full-test:
pain reduction in practice
Taras Slipets, FlixBus

2. About me
{
“First name”: “Taras”,
“Last name”: “Slipets”,
“Occupation”: “Senior Software Engineer”,
“Interests”: [
“Music”,
“Skiing”
]
}
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3. Disclaimer: my own personal experience
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4. Where we started
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5. From scratch
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6. Initial app structure
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JVM
Tomcat
Spring app
React,js app

7. Initial app structure
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JVM
Tomcat
Spring app
React,js app

8. One fancy piece
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9. Throwing over the fence
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Front-end Backend

10. Throwing over the fence
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Front-end Backend
QAs

11. Manual environment setup
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12. Step 1
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13. Confluence page with manual
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14. Step 2
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15. Split Frontend and Backend
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16. Where to run Frontend???
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JVM
Tomcat
Spring app
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React app

17. Where to run Frontend???
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VS.

18. Where to run Frontend???
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JVM
Tomcat
Spring appReact app

19. Step 3
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20. Self contained Backend
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21. Self contained Backend
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In-mem H2+

22. Self contained Backend
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23. Step 4
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24. Environments
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25. Environments
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26. Step 5
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27. Deployment automation
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On-premise Data Centre

28. Step 6
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29. Other services integration
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30. Lovely couple
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31. Bash + Ansible scripting
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Before After

32. Step 7
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33. Containers and Orchestration
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34. Local environment
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35. One problem
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36. Alternative
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37. Demo
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38. Sources on GitHub
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39. Cluster overview
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41. Lessons learned
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● At very initial phase
infrastructure does not matter,
but ideas matter very much
● For real-world MVP
infrastructure work has same
value as feature development
● If developer dived into real
infrastructure/operations topics,
he/she writes code better.

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