A Pattern Language for Microservices (@futurestack)
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When architecting an application, you need to choose between the traditional monolithic architecture consisting of a single large application, or the more fashionable microservices architecture consisting of many smaller services. But rather than blindly picking the familiar or the fashionable, it's important to remember what Fred Books said almost 30 years ago: there are no silver bullets in software. Every architectural decision has both benefits and drawbacks. Whether the benefits of one approach outweigh the drawbacks greatly depends upon the context of your particular project. Moreover, even if you adopt the microservices architecture, you must still make numerous other design decisions, each with their own trade-offs.
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A Pattern Language for Microservices (@futurestack)
- 1. @crichardson A pattern language for microservices Chris Richardson Founder of the original CloudFoundry.com Author of POJOs in Action @crichardson chris@chrisrichardson.net http://plainoldobjects.com http://microservices.io http://eventuate.io
- 2. @crichardson Presentation goal Why patterns and pattern languages? A pattern language for microservices
- 4. @crichardson About Chris Consultant and trainer focusing on microservices (http://www.chrisrichardson.net/)
- 5. @crichardson About Chris Founder of a startup that is creating a platform that makes it easy for application developers write microservices (http://eventuate.io)
- 7. @crichardson Agenda Why a pattern language for microservices? Core patterns Deployment patterns Communication patterns and more
- 9. @crichardson Yet almost 30 years later developers are still passionately arguing over “silver bullets”
- 10. @crichardson Suck/Rock Dichotomy Spring vs. Java EE JavaScript vs. Java Functional programming vs. Object-oriented http://nealford.com/memeagora/2009/08/05/suck-rock-dichotomy.html Containers vs. Virtual Machines
- 11. @crichardson Gartner Hype Cycle http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bf/Hype-Cycle-General.png It’s awesome It’s not awesome Trade-offs understood
- 12. @crichardson How we make decisions Decide using emotions Rationalize with our intellect http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahout
- 13. @crichardson We need a better way to discuss and think about technology
- 14. @crichardson What’s a pattern? Reusable solution to a problem occurring in a particular context
- 15. @crichardson The structure of a pattern = Great framework for discussing and thinking about technology
- 16. @crichardson The structure of a pattern Resulting context aka the situation Name Context Problem Related patterns (conflicting) issues etc to address Forces Solution
- 18. @crichardson Related patterns Alternative solutions Solutions to problems introduced by this pattern
- 19. Pattern language A collection of related patterns that solve problems in a particular domain Relationships Pattern A results in a context that has a problem solved by Pattern B Patterns A and B solve the same problem Pattern A is a specialization of pattern B http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Pattern_Language Access to Water Promenade Local townhall Intimacy gradient Light on two sides
- 20. @crichardson Meta-pattern Problem: How to talk/reason about technology? Solution: Use the pattern format Benefit: More objective Drawback: Less exciting Context: Emotional software development culture Related patterns: It’s awesome!
- 21. @crichardson Work in progress http://microservices.io/ Monolithic architecture Microservice architecture API gateway Client-side discovery Server-side discovery Service registry Self registration 3rd party registration Multiple Services per host Single Service per Host Service-per- Container Deployment Discovery Data Communication Service-per-VM Partitioning Messaging Remote Procedure Invocation Style Core Database per Service Event-driven architecture Event sourcing Motivating Pattern Solution Pattern Solution A Solution B General Specific
- 22. @crichardson Agenda Why a pattern language for microservices? Core patterns Deployment patterns Communication patterns and more
- 23. @crichardson
- 24. @crichardson Let’s imagine you are building an online store Browser/ Client SQL Database Review Service Product Info Service Recommendation Service StoreFrontUI Order Service HTML REST/JSON
- 25. @crichardson Problem: what’s the deployment architecture?
- 26. @crichardson Forces There is a team of developers that must be productive The application must be easy to understand and modify Do continuous deployment Run multiple instances for scalability and availability Use emerging technologies (frameworks, programming languages, etc)
- 27. @crichardson Tomcat Pattern: Monolithic architecture Browser/ Client WAR/EAR MySQL Database Review Service Product Info Service Recommendation Service StoreFrontUI Order Service HTML REST/JSON develop test deploy Simple to scale
- 29. @crichardson But when the application is large …
- 31. @crichardson Obstacle to frequent deployments Need to redeploy everything to change one component Interrupts long running background (e.g. Quartz) jobs Increases risk of failure Fear of change Updates will happen less often - really long QA cycles e.g. Makes A/B testing UI really difficult Eggs in one basket
- 32. @crichardson Overloads your IDE and container Slows down development
- 33. @crichardson Lots of coordination and communication required Requires lots of coordination I want to update the UI But the backend is not working yet!
- 34. @crichardson Requires long-term commitment to a technology stack
- 36. @crichardson Apply functional decomposition X axis - horizontal duplication Z axis -data partitioning Y axis - functional decomposition Scale by splitting sim ilar things Scale by splitting different things
- 37. @crichardson Product Info Microservice architecture Product Info Service Recommendation Service Review Service Order Service Browse Products UI Checkout UI Order management UI Account management UI Apply X-axis and Z-axis scaling to each service independently
- 39. @crichardson Benefits Smaller, simpler apps Easier to understand and develop Less jar/classpath hell - who needs OSGI? Faster to build and deploy Scales development: develop, deploy and scale each service independently Improves fault isolation Eliminates long-term commitment to a single technology stack System level architecture vs. service level architecture Easily and safely experiment with new technologies
- 40. @crichardson Drawbacks Complexity of developing a distributed system Implementing inter-process communication Handling partial failures Implementing business transactions that span multiple databases (without 2PC) Complexity of testing a distributed system Complexity of deploying and operating a distributed system Managing the development and deployment of features that span multiple services Fortunately solutions exists
- 41. @crichardson The benefits typically outweigh the drawbacks for large, complex applications
- 42. @crichardson Issues to address How to deploy the services? How do the services communicate? How do clients of the application communicate with the services? How to partition the system into services? How to deal with distributed data management problems? ….
- 43. @crichardson Agenda Why a pattern language for microservices? Core patterns Deployment patterns Communication patterns and more
- 44. @crichardson We have applied the microservices pattern: How to deploy the services?
- 45. @crichardson Forces Services are written using a variety of languages, frameworks, and framework versions Each service consists of multiple service instances for throughput and availability Building and deploying a service must be fast Service must be deployed and scaled independently Service instances need to be isolated Resources consumed by a service must be constrained Deployment must be cost-effective
- 46. @crichardson
- 47. @crichardson Pattern: Multiple service instances per host Host (Physical or VM) Service-A Instance-1 Service-B Instance-2 Service-C Instance-2 Process WAR OSGI bundle
- 48. Benefits and drawbacks Benefits Efficient resource utilization Fast deployment Drawbacks Poor/Terrible isolation Poor visibility (with WAR/OSGI deployment) Difficult to limit resource utilization Risk of dependency version conflicts Poor encapsulation of implementation technology
- 49. @crichardson Pattern: Service instance per host
- 50. @crichardson Pattern: Service per VM host Service VM image VM Service VM Service VM Service packaged as deployed as
- 52. Benefits and drawbacks Benefits Great isolation Great manageability VM encapsulates implementation technology Leverage AWS infrastructure for Autoscaling/Load balancing Drawbacks Less efficient resource utilization Slow deployment
- 53. @crichardson VM VM Pattern: Service per Container host Service Container image Container Service Container Service Container Service packaged as deployed as
- 55. Benefits and drawbacks Benefits Great isolation Great manageability Container encapsulates implementation technology Efficient resource utilization Fast deployment Drawbacks Immature infrastructure for deploying containers
- 56. @crichardson Agenda Why a pattern language for microservices? Core patterns Deployment patterns Communication patterns and more
- 57. @crichardson Communication issues System Client Service A Service B Service C The System How do clients of the system interact with the services? How do services within the system interact?
- 58. @crichardson How do external clients interact with the microsevices?
- 59. @crichardson How do services communicate with each other?
- 60. @crichardson How does a client determine the network location of a service?
- 62. Database per Service Orders Service Customer Service Order Database Customer Database Sharded SQL NoSQL DB
- 63. How to solve distributed data management challenges? How to implement transactions that span multiple services? How to implement queries that span multiple services?
- 64. @crichardson Summary: Patterns and pattern languages are a great way to … Think about technology Discuss technology Apply technology
- 65. @crichardson Summary: The Microservices pattern language is a great way to … Think about microservices Discuss microservices Apply microservices (or not)