The document outlines the Microservices Architecture (MSA) project by The Open Group, detailing its introduction, key characteristics, industry observations, and implementation considerations. MSA focuses on managing and reducing business risk through features like service independence, scalability, and decentralized data management. It also references the challenges related to granularity, governance, and service versioning while highlighting trends and enabling technologies in the microservices landscape.

1. MicroservicesArchitecture (MSA)
The Open Group project
Somasundram Balakrushnan
Enterprise Architect,
Cognizant
Co-Chair - MSA (The Open Group)
Ovace A. Mamnoon
Enterprise Architect,
HP
Co-Chair - MSA (The Open Group)

2. Topics
• Introduction
• MSA Project Charter
• What is Microservices Architecture (MSA)?
• Key Defining Characteristics
• Supporting Characteristics
• Industry Observations
• Next steps
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3. Introduction
• Who are we?
• What are we doing?
• And why?

4. Our Journey to MSA
•Genesis in early 2014…
•What is MSA?
•And why do we need it?

5. Picture this…
Unix way  cat opengroup.txt | sort –d | more

6. System/
Application-1
System/
Application-2
System/
Application-3
Server Side
component
Server Side
component
Server Side
component
Without MSA

7. Reality with MSA
External interfaces
API-1 API-2 .. .. .. API-N
System/
Application-1
System/
Application-2
System/
Application-3

8. MicroservicesArchitecture (MSA)
The Open Group – Project Charter

9. MSA Project Charter
• What is Microservices Architecture?
• Key Defining Characteristics
• Related / Supporting Characteristics
• SOA and Microservices Architecture
• Compare and Contrast SOA & MSA architecture styles
• Governance Impacts
• API & MSA
• Cloud & MSA
• Implementation Considerations for Microservices Architecture
• Skills / Competency needed
• Organization maturity
• Infrastructure support

10. Why Microservices…
It’s all about managing and reducing risk for business!

11. Considerations…
It’s about common sense and practicality

12. Teaming Concepts
Conway’s Law:
“Any organization that designs a system (defined more
broadly here than just information systems) will inevitably
produce a design whose structure is a copy of the
organization's communication structure. ”

13. Outcomes…
Organization
Business
function
Business
Function
Business
Function
Business Unit

14. MicroservicesArchitecture (MSA)
Characteristics of

15. MSA: Characteristics
Survey
Survey Members:
• Participants from various
member companies
• Researched, Experienced,
Practitioners of MSA
• Leaders & Experts of EA and
SOA

16. Key Defining Characteristics
Single Responsibility
Self Containment
Service Independence
Highly Decoupled
Highly Resilient

17. Supporting Characteristics
Decentralized
Data
Management
Implementation
Agnostic
Scalability &
Stability through
Parallelism
Stable Contract
/ API
Point-to-Point
Integration
Federated /
Autonomous
Governance
Single Team
end to end
Ownership
Monitoring and
Instrumentation
Enabled

18. MicroservicesArchitecture (MSA)
Industry Trends & Observations

19. Building Blocks
Microservices
Framework
Platform (IaaS/PaaS)

20. Enabling Platform Components
• Monitoring & Automation (Service Delivery & Operations)
• Cloud deployment (IaaS/PaaS)
• Container Technology
• Service Discovery
• Light weight messaging
• API Gateways
Microservices
Framework
Platform (IaaS/PaaS)

21. Enabling Technology & Ecosystem
• Docker, Node.js
• Apache Mesos
• Apache ZooKeeper
• Swagger
• Consul
• HA Proxy
• Spring Boot, Akka ….

22. MSA Challenges
• Granularity & Decomposition factors
• Chattiness & Fan Outs
• Payload Serialization
• Testing Microservices
• Governance
• Dependency Management
• Service Versioning

23. Service Granularity
MonolithNano
Line of Granularity
More of an Art than Science
Consider Business flexibility
& agility needs
Beware of Monoliths and
Nano-Services

24. What Next?
 Whitepaper – Target: Summer 2015
 Enterprises can start piloting MSA
 Preparing the platform & framework