Microservices Manchester: Microservice, Microservice, Wherefor Art Thou Microservic? By Nic Jackson

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If you are thinking this talk will be littered with Shakespeare references then you will be in for a disappointment. But, if you are hoping this talk will unlock the secrets to some effective patterns for service discovery in your microservice architecture then you are in for a treat! Service discovery can be one of the most difficult techniques when learning micro service patterns, especially if you are a running a containerised system. In this talk I will discuss some of the common patterns for service discovery and how they can be used in your environment, we will also look at a couple of frameworks which do the hard work for you. Key takeaways: What service discovery is and why you need it Introduction to common service discovery patterns Patterns for fault tolerance and high availability Nic Jackson is a software engineering evangelist working for notonthehighstreet.com. www.notonthehighstreet.com

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Microservice
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Whatwewillcovertoday
» Service discovery
» Server side patterns
» Client side patterns
» Fault tolerance patterns

Context
» Services typically need to call one another
» Monolithic applications communicate through language
level or procedural calls
» With SOA services generally run at ﬁxed or well known
locations
» Microservices are easy
» Building Microservice systems are hard

DNS
Advantages
» Simple
» Well understood
Disadvantages
» TLS
» How do you update it?

Dynamic Service Registries
» Zookeeper
» Consul
» Eureka
» EtcD
» Sky DNS

Faulttolerance patterns
» Timeouts
» Circuit Breaking
» Bulkheads
» Fail fast

Frameworks
» Build and Deploy
» Orchestration
» Service Discovery

Frameworks
» Docker Cloud
» AWS Container Service
» Mesos
» Kubernetes
» Datawire.io

Thankyouandanyquestions?
» twitter: @sheriffjackson @NOTHS_Tech
» email: nicholasjackson@notonthehighstreet.com
» github: http://github.com/nicholasjackson
weare hiring:
http://www.notonthehighstreet.com/work-with-us

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O'Reilly 2016: "Continuous Delivery with Containers: The Trials and Tribulati...

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Implementing a continuous delivery (CD) pipeline is not trivial, and the introduction of container technology to the development stack can introduce additional challenges and requirements. In this webcast we will look at the steps that are essential for creating an effective pipeline for creating and deploying containerized applications. Topic covered include: - The impact of containers on CD - Creating a container pipeline (including functional and nonfunctional testing) - Lessons learned the hard way A supporting O'Reilly report "Containerizing Continuous Delivery in Java" is also available, and this contains instructions and code for how to create a Jenkins-based continuous delivery pipeline that takes a series of Java applications and containerizes them, ready for functional and nonfunctional testing, and ultimately, deployment.

Haufe #msaday - The Actor model: an alternative approach to concurrency By Lo...

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Haufe #msaday - Seven More Deadly Sins of Microservices by Daniel Bryant

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All is not completely rosy in microservice-land. It is often a sign of an architectural approach’s maturity that in addition to the emergence of well established principles and practices, that anti-patterns also begin to be identified and classified. In this talk Daniel will introduce the 2016 edition of the seven deadly sins that if left unchecked could easily ruin your next microservices project... This talk will take a tour of some of the nastiest anti-patterns in microservices, giving you the tools to not only avoid but also slay these demons before they tie up your project in their own special brand of hell. Topics covered include: Envy - introducing inappropriate intimacy within services by creating a shared domain model, and how many teams deploy and use data stores incorrectly; Wrath - failing to deal with the inevitable bad things that occur within a distributed system; Sloth - ignoring the importance of NFRs; and Lust - embracing the latest and greatest technology without evaluating the impact incurred by these choices. This is an all-new 2016 version of Daniel's popular 'deadly sins talk' that was recently presented at QCon NY. The talk received 94% highest rating, and was the fifth most attended talk at the conference. Daniel plans to continually improve the presentation based on his learnings and attendee feedback.

Haufe #msaday - Building a Microservice Ecosystem by Daniel Bryant

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Daniel Bryant's slides from his talk at Haufe Microservices Architecture Day 2016. Microservice platforms are finally becoming a reality: Mesos, Kubernetes, and a whole bunch of PaaS-style offerings are available, but the reality is that these platforms still don’t provide everything you need in order to build a fully functional microservice ecosystem. Come to this session to learn about the essential deployment, orchestration, and glue components that often have to be self-assembled. The presentation begins by looking at deployment techniques and tools and examines where to test (QA, staging, or production), how to test (integration and contracts), and how to separate deployment and release. It then discusses orchestration, configuration, and service discovery. Finally it looks at essential glue such as logging, monitoring, and alerting.

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