apidays LIVE Jakarta 2021 - Accelerating Digitisation February 24, 2021 Connecting and managing 500+ Microservices with APIs Ichsan Rahardianto, Head of Engineering at Bukalapak

1. Connecting and
Managing 500+
Microservices with
APIs

2. hello!
I am Ichsan Rahardianto
A passionate tech lead than have been helping team to produce
great products. Currently working as a Head of Engineering in
Bukalapak. I like to spend free time with my family.
@irahardianto
https://www.linkedin.com/in/irahardianto/

3. Agenda
1. Working on your 1st microservice
Microservice, API, and Businesses
Running 500+ of it in production
Q & A
2.
3.
4.

4. Working on your
1st microservice
When is the microservice architecture design
is suitable for you?
1.

5. “
“Organizations which design systems are
constrained to produce designs which are
copies of the communication structures of
these organizations.”
- Conway, 1967

6. img source: https://www.thoughtworks.com/insights/blog/applying-conways-law-improve-your-software-development

7. img source: https://www.thoughtworks.com/insights/blog/applying-conways-law-improve-your-software-development

8. distributed teams tend to
develop more modular products
A Harvard study analyze and compared
product that fulfill the same function but
developed in different mode, closed-source
vs open-source. The results reveal significant
differences in modularity, consistent with a
view that distributed teams tend to develop
more modular products.
source: https://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5894.html

9. The small team &
a monolith

10. Microservices to the rescue!

11. Microservice, API,
and Businesses
What’s in it to the team?
2.

13. Car manufacturing then

14. Car manufacturing Now!

15. Mobile app with features
Integrated from partners’ APIs

16. Digital
Platform
Digital
Ecosystem
Digital
Platforms
Enterprise
Partners
Developers
Government
Clients

17. Running 500+ of it
in production
What does it takes to run
a massive number of it
3.

19. Sounds Complex, Why
Did Everyone Do It?

20. Why Bukalapak chose
the design
✘ A team of ~800 software engineers
✘ Divided into tens of squads and tribes
✘ Hundreds of improvement in parallel
✘ Team need to be flexible and agile
✘ Facing instantaneous spike

21. Our approach
DB
API
API
API
DB
DB
API
API Gateway
Web
MicroFE
Gateway

22. The advantages
Resiliency
Productivity Scalability

23. Allowing team to be autonomous

24. Scaling this vs that

25. Resiliency

26. Automate, automate, automate!
Resource
Provisioning
Integration &
Deployment
Access and
Identity

27. Your pipeline is essential
img source: https://solidstudio.io/blog/ci-cd-pipelines.html

28. Monitor your metrics

29. Track your services
SLOs & SLIs
APM Business
Metrics

30. Map, Trace, Inventorize

31. Trace!
img source: https://www.wpcruisecontrol.com/benefits-of-24-7-website-monitoring-services/

32. Alerting & Escalation
P0
img source: https://drawception.com/game/qaP3ytwaGS/a-man-playing-guitar-while-on-fire/

33. Thank you!
Any questions?
You can find me at
@irahardianto
https://www.linkedin.com/in/irahardianto/