Slides from a joint webinar with Treasure Data: This webinar will provide a crash course on microservices, focusing on high-level architectural and strategic concerns. We’ll explore best practices and architectural considerations and show you how to deliver microservices-powered applications today.

1. How microservices are redefining
modern application architecture
Donnie Berkholz, Ph.D.
Research Director — Development, DevOps, & IT Ops
Treasure Data, Jan 2016

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Source: 451 Research custom surveys
Minimizing risk, maximizing agility

3. The new stack?
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An infinite array of possible stacks.

4. The need
for speed
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Source: 451 DevOps study, Q3 2014; n=237
63% want more

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DevOps: Agile, truly tip to tail
Business to customer

6. 3 pillars of DevOps
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Culture
Automation
Measurement

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Flickr: respres
Flickr: hartvig, snapeverything, roymaloon
Pets vs Cattle

8. Enter containers:
The future of virtualization

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Aren’t they just like VMs? No.
Source: 451 Research, “Now Shipping: The Docker and containers ecosystem rapidly takes shape”

10. Automation, agility, empathy
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11. Container-native OSs
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Snappy Ubuntu

12. Developers love Docker
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13. Docker is not just a toy
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ProdinQ32015:
22.5%
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Source: 451 VotE Cloud, 2015; Q1 n=991; Q3 n=960
31.5%
10.2%
8.4%
9.4%
4.7%
35.8%
56.1%
10.7%
3.9%
4.2%
2.1%
22.9%
Discovery and Evaluation
Running Trials/Pilot Projects
In Test and Development Environment
Initial Implementation of Production Applications
Broad Implementation of Production Applications
No Plans
Q3 2015 Q1 2015
of cloud-using orgs

14. Fragmentation
drives microservices —
enabled by containers
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Loosely coupled services

16. Loosely coupled teams
“ One of the biggest changes is that we no longer have
an official ‘architecture’ team. Instead, we have made
‘architecture’ an ‘ingredient’ on each of our teams.”
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http://tech.gilt.com/post/102628539834/making-architecture-work-in-microservice
– Lauri Apple, Gilt Groupe, 14 Nov 2014

17. The foundation of microservices
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18. Four real-world examples
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19. The exemplar
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20. The exemplar
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21. Real-world example #2
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http://www.slideshare.net/nathariel/scaling-microservices-architecture-on-aws

22. Hailo architecture
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23. Hailo architecture
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24. Hailo architecture
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25. Complexity is the new normal
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26. Real-world example #3: REA (realestate.com.au)
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http://techblog.realestate.com.au/a-microservices-implementation-retrospective/

27. REA microservices timeline
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0
20
40
60
0
6
12
18
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Microservices
Months
http://yowconference.com.au/slides/yow2014/SkurrieBottcherEvans-MonolithsToMicroservices.pdf
“ Microservices is a
long term strategy.”
– Evan Bottcher,
ThoughtWorks/REA,
9 Dec 2014

28. Real-world example #4:
Ctrip (Chinese travel site)
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http://www.slideshare.net/yang75108/micro-service-architecture-c-trip-v11

29. Real-world example #4:
Ctrip (Chinese travel site)
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http://www.slideshare.net/yang75108/micro-service-architecture-c-trip-v11

30. Coping with complexity remains a challenge
• Cascading failures
• Circuit breaker
• Feedback loops
• Monitoring changes
• Cattle v pets
• Queue depth, dependencies
• Self-healing infrastructure
• Don’t NIH the platform
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31. How? DevOps
What? Microservices
Why? Survival
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Thank you!
Donnie Berkholz
Twitter: @dberkholz
donnie.berkholz@451research.com

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