IBM has worked to port Netflix's open source Scalable Services Fabric framework to run on IBM's cloud infrastructure. This includes making Netflix services and microservice runtimes compatible with IBM SoftLayer IaaS and WebSphere Liberty application server. IBM ensured these services could be deployed across multiple IBM datacenters for high availability and automatic failure recovery. IBM also adopted Netflix's chaos testing and continuous delivery practices to validate cloud-native readiness. Going forward, IBM aims to offer the Scalable Services Fabric both as a Software as a Service and for on-premise use.

1. IBM Scalable Services Fabric
for Netflix S2E1 Meetup
Andrew Spyker
@aspyker

2. History and Future
2012
SPECjEnterprise
2013
AcmeAir Run
On IBM Cloud at
“Web Scale”
2014
Scalable Services
Fabric internally for
IBM Services
Scalable Services
Fabric SaaS and On-Prem?
Sample application
cloud prize work
AcmeAir Cloud/Mobile
Sample/Benchmark born
Codename:
BlueMix
Portability cloud
prize work

3. Scalable Service Fabric Work
Netflix OSS IBM port/enablement
Netflix “Zen” of Cloud • Worked with initial services to enable cloud native arch
• Worked with initial services to enable NetflixOSS usages
• Created scorecard and tests for “cloud native” readiness
Highly Available IaaS and
Cloud Services
• Deployment across multiple IBM SoftLayer IaaS datacenters
and global and local load balancers
• Complete automation via IBM SoftLayer IaaS API’s
• Ensured facilities for automatic failure recovery
Micro-service Runtimes
(Karyon, Eureka Client,
Ribbon, Hystrix, Archaius)
• Ported to work with IBM SoftLayer IaaS and on the
WebSphere Liberty Profile application server
• Created “eureka-sidecar” for non-Java runtimes and
ElasticSearch discovery
Netflix OSS Servers
(Asgard, Eureka Server,
Turbine)
• Ported to work with IBM SoftLayer IaaS + RightScale
• Operationalized HA and secure deployments for multiple
service tenants
Adopted Chaos Testing • Ported Chaos Monkey to IBM SoftLayer IaaS
• Performed manual Chaos Gorilla validation on services
Worked through devops
tool chain
• Worked with initial services to enable continuous delivery
with devops (and imagine baking via Animator like tool)

4. Come meet the team!
Looks like … Tweets from … Talks about …
Adolfo @adolforod
API Management and Cloud Integration, user of
NetflixOSS platform. Appliances in the cloud.
Brian @bkmartin
IBM BlueMix (PaaS), enabling composable apps
in PaaS
Darrell
IBM Research focusing on NetflixOSS devops and
on-premise deployments
David @dcurrie
WebSphere Liberty Profile application server
NetflixOSS development and PaaS integration
Jonathan @ma4jpb
NetflixOSS portability across many aspects
Cloud messaging (in relation to Suro)
Matt @matrober
API Management, user of NetflixOSS platform
Converted service to be cloud native
Rachel @rreinitz
IBM Services, interested in helping you get to this
cloud native in SaaS and on-premise
Ricky
@rickymoorhouse API Management, user of NetflixOSS platform
Creator of Imaginator
Will @auwilli98
API Management operations, user of NetflixOSS
platform