The document discusses the challenges and strategies of managing microservices architecture, emphasizing the need for accurate enterprise and IT architecture data. It highlights the importance of tools like LeanIX and Giant Swarm for simplifying the deployment, management, and scalability of microservices. Key takeaways include the necessity of infrastructure automation and gathering metrics from the outset to facilitate informed IT decisions.

1. MICROSERVICES –
KEEP COMPLEXITY UNDER CONTROL
Puja Abbassi, Giant Swarm
Dominik Rose, LeanIX

2. About
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LeanIX GmbH
• SaaS for Enterprise Architecture
• Self-Funded in 2012 in Bonn
• > 50 Customers in US, Europa
& Australia
Dominik Rose
• Manager Partner & Solution Enablement
Giant Swarm GmbH
• Simple Microservice Infrastructure
• Founded in 2014 in Cologne
• > 700 beta users & several customers
in production across Europe and US
Puja Abbassi
• Head of Communications

3. Digital Transformation shifts paradigms in
Corporate IT
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Microservices
Architecture
(e.g. Netflix)
Flexible ecosystem of
modular services
Containerized
Deployment
(e.g. Docker)
Fast scaling and flexible
deployment
Iterative adaption to
customers’ needs
Agile
Development
(e.g. Scrum)

4. The need for accurate up-to-date
Enterprise & IT Arhitecture data is higher than ever
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Agile
Microservices Dev-Ops
EA
How do users like the
new feature in my
Application?
Will the backend
be able to handle
the user increase?
Which areas of the
Application are
error prone?

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”Through 2017, 90% of the information
assets from big data analytics efforts
will be siloed and unleveragable.”
Source: How to be agile with business analytics, Gartner 2015.

6. Building Microservices is hard
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Source: http://www.pwc.com/us/en/technology-forecast/2014/cloud-computing/features/microservices.html

7. Building and running a resilient infrastructure for
Microservices is even harder
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“Containers are only 1% of your problem.”
- Kelsey Hightower, Google
Tools out there (incl. Docker) are young and break
regularly
Microservices increase the operations overhead
of deployment and management

8. Giant Swarm is the fastest way to get into production
with Microservices and Containers
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• Fully managed
• Scalable
• Resilient
• Flexible

9. Live Demo

10. 5 ways LeanIX helps you to keep Microservice
complexity well under control
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Visualize your dependencies in style1
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Manage your images effectively
Assess technical metrics in the business context
Relate to legacy systems
Plan your way ahead

11. Visualize your dependencies in style
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{
"name": "shop",
"components": {
"cart-service": {
"expose": [
{
"port": "8008",
"component": "cart-service/cart",
"target_port": 18100
}
]
},
"cart-service/cart": {
"image": "zutherb/cart-service",
"ports": [
18100
],
"links": [
{
"component": "database-service",
"target_port": "8003/tcp",
"alias": "redis"
}
]
},
"catalog-service": {
"expose": [
{
"port": "8005",
"component": "catalog-service/catalog",
"target_port": 80
}
]
},
…
Source: https://github.com/zutherb/AppStash

12. Manage your images effectively
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13. Assess technical metrics in the business context
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14. Relate to legacy systems
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15. Plan your Microservice Architecture ahead
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16. Take aways
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Complexity of Microservices is manageable by
infrastructure automation
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Take “Metrics from day one” to make profound
decisions on your IT
Automatically gather your data from
infrastructure to avoid tedious work

17. Get started
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“It is not the strongest of the species that
survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one
most responsive to change.”

19. LeanIX Enterprise Architecture Management
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