"Containers, DevOps, Microservices and Kafka: Tools used by our Monolith wrecking crew." Speakers: Jonathan Owens, Senior Site Reliability Engineer and Jose Fernandez, Lead Software Engineer, New Relic

1. Containers, DevOps,
Microservices and Kafka:
Tools used by our Monolith
wrecking crew.
Jonathan Owens, Senior Site Reliability Engineer &
Jose Fernandez, Lead Software Engineer

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7. Shopping list for replacing a Monolith
New Relic APM + Insights
Kafka
Microservices
DevOps
Containers

8. CollectCollectCollectCollectCollect

9. Collect
Collect
Collect
CollectCollect

10. Collect
Collect
Collect
Collect
Collect

12. Great job refactoring services this year!“
– No Manager Ever

13. Updating last-seen
timestamps for metrics
Metric ID resolution
Computing cluster
agent metrics
Writing metric
metadata
Writing summary records
Applying black / whitelist
rules to accounts
Processing and storing
environment values
Legacy alerting
Agent connect() calls
Agent run state
Orchestrating
thread profiles
Applying rename rules
to incoming metrics
Aggregation of 1-minute
and 1-hour timeslices
from raw harvests
Writing 1-minute and 1-hour
timeslices to MySQL

14. Updating last-seen
timestamps for metrics
Metric ID resolution
Computing cluster
agent metrics
Writing metric
metadata
Writing summary records
Applying black / whitelist
rules to accounts
Processing and storing
environment values
Agent connect() calls
Agent run state
Orchestrating
thread profiles
Applying rename rules
to incoming metrics
Legacy alerting
Aggregation of 1-minute
and 1-hour timeslices
from raw harvests
Writing 1-minute and 1-hour
timeslices to MySQL

15. Shopping list for replacing a Monolith
New Relic APM + Insights
Kafka
Microservices
DevOps
Containers

16. Collect
Consume
Process
Process

17. Tap into the monolith and
emit data for your use

18. collector
minute
aggregator
hour
aggregator
hour
writer
hour
aggregator

19. collector
minute
aggregator
hour
aggregator
hour
writer
hour
aggregator

20. Validate
your data
MySQL
query
Query
Service
“In the dark”
Insights
Cassandra
query, result,
and performance
Query
Validator

21. MySQL
query
Query
Service
“In the dark”
Insights
Cassandra
query, result,
and performance
Query
Validator

22. Shopping lists for replacing a Monolith
New Relic APM + Insights
Kafka
Microservices
DevOps
Containers

23. collector
minute
aggregator
hour
writer

24. collector
minute
aggregator
hour
aggregator
hour
writer
hour
aggregator

25. collector
minute
aggregator
hour
aggregator
hour
writer
hour
aggregator
minute
aggregator
summary
record
generator

27. Experimentally proven value
Service boundaries match
communication boundaries

28. Photo credit: theimpulsivebuy
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30. Shopping list for replacing a Monolith
New Relic APM + Insights
Kafka
Microservices
DevOps
Containers

32. Alice Goldfuss
Site Reliability Engineer
New Relic
@alicegoldfuss
DevOps means empathy and communication over
the wall until there is no more wall.

33. Jonathan
Owens
Jose
Fernandez
OpsDev
… long wait…
frustration due
to lack of
visibility…
cycle
repeats
“I need 3
Cassandra servers
ASAP!!”
(vague request)
“Here they are.
Sorry it took so long.
Our queue was
backed up.”
<different goals>
“Doh.
I needed the
newer version
of Cassandra…”

34. OpsDev

35. Team Culture

36. How did we do it? How can you do it?
* insert picture for Upscale
event
Upscale

37. Product Reliability Engineer
Site Reliability Engineer

38. Shopping list for replacing a Monolith
New Relic APM + Insights
Kafka
Microservices
DevOps
Containers

39. Docker is opinionated about
software architecture in
a way that encourages more
robustly crafted applications.
“
– Karl Matthias & Sean P. Kane
Docker: Up and Running

40. PUSH
and then
PULL door
Push plate?
Policy statement
Push on a
pull handle
Visual instruction
to use badge
(with light indicator)

41. PUSH PUSH PULL

42. This part fits the problem
This part fits the person

45. Start Small

46. Shopping list for replacing a Monolith
New Relic APM + Insights
Kafka
Microservices
DevOps
Containers

48. Q&A

49. Thank you.
Jonathan Owens, Senior Site Reliability Engineer &
Jose Fernandez, Lead Software Engineer