Gluecon Keynote, Steven Willmott, 25th May, 2017. On distributed systems, microservices, containers and Agile Integration

1. A Connector, A Container and an API
Walk into a Bar…
Steven Willmott, Senior Director and Head of API Management
Gluecon 2017 - 25th May, 2017

2. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

3. Who am I?
Run API Infrastructure Business at Red Hat,
Formerly CEO of 3scale Inc.
Not talking about product.
Come and see us at the Booth!

4. https://www.redhat.com/en/technologies/jboss-
middleware/integrate
https://www.openshift.com/

5. (Human) Containers at Scale?

11. In a mail room near you…
You got Mail!

12. Why?

13. Common Modern IT Challenges
Integrate SaaS Apps
Customer and Partner
Access
Enable Customer Facing
Apps via Many Channels
Extend Legacy Apps
IoT Devices and
Architectures
Data Access for
Business Users

14. Success requires a Platform
approach

15. Foundational Capabilities for Modern IT
Integration APIsContainers

16. What do Enterprises Want?

17. a·gil·i·ty*
/əˈjilədē/
noun
“ability to move
quickly and easily.”
(*) lowercase‘a”

18. ?

19. Our Building Blocks do help…
Integration Containers APIs

20. What about ‘A’ Agile?

21. Agile Manifesto
Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
Working software over comprehensive documentation
Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
Responding to change over following a plan

22. Code …
SciLua : http://scilua.org/

23. Infrastructure code …
Integrations
Containers &
Container Images
APIs &
API Definitions
Routing &
Failover
Security PoliciesData Centers
…
Networking
Infrastructure

24. Agile Manifesto
Individuals and interactions =>
Focus on Teams and Interactions
APIs, Pipelines, Traffic Patterns, Interdependencies are
the new subject of discourse

25. Agile Manifesto
Working software =>
24/7 Infrastructure
Rock solid deployment, testing and roll out processes,
global coordination around Dev/Test/Prod

26. Agile Manifesto
Customer collaboration =>
Alignment with overall business goals
Company strategic and technical goals drive the
roadmap, balance between short and long term goals

27. Agile Manifesto
Responding to change =>
Capacity to respond to real-time change
Having the capability adjust capacity, failover, combine
APIs in different ways to react with speed

28. Captain
Obvious?

29. • Codebase: One codebase tracked in revision
control, many deploys
• Dependencies: Explicitly declare and isolate
dependencies
• Configuration: Store configuration in the
environment
• Backing Services: Treat backing services as
attached resources
• Build, release, run: Strictly separate build and
run stages
• Processes: Execute the app as one or more
stateless processes
• Port binding: Export services via port binding
• Concurrency: Scale out via the process model
• Disposability: Maximize robustness with fast
startup and graceful shutdown
• Dev/prod parity: Keep development, staging,
and production as similar as possible
• Logs: Treat logs as event streams
• Admin processes: Run admin/management
tasks as one-off processes
Focus on how to build a single (Micro)Service
Example: 12 Factor Apps
Heroku / 12 Factor App Model

30. Example: Death Star Diagrams
Netflix – Circa 2012 Twitter– Circa 2013

31. What to do?

32. Four Areas…

33. Systems We Need
Service Discovery Routing & Failover
Fully Automated
CICD
Layered Reliable
Identity
End-to-End
Testing
Event Correlation &
Observability

34. Automation is key

35. Open Standards & Open Source
https://istio.io/https://openapi.org/ https://kubernetes.io/

36. Better Communication for Agile Collaboration
Networking
Infrastructure
Integrations
Containers &
Container Images
APIs &
API Definitions
Routing &
Failover
Security
Policies
Data Centers
…

37. Take Aways…

38. ?

39. Go Beyond the Core Building Blocks
Integration Containers APIs
Teams and
Interactions
Working
Infrastructure
Collaboration
Response
To Change

40. Back in the Office…
Find and connect with
All the people in your
Dependency chain
Automate Just a Little
Bit More

41. 41
Cloud
Containers
Microservices
DevOps
RED HAT BRINGS IT
ALL TOGETHER
Storage
App Delivery
Integration
API Management

42. Thank
You!
@njyx
swillmott@redh
at.com
@redHatNews
redhat.com
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