Your App deserves more – The Art of App Modernization

DEV-1478 - Your App Deserves More –  
The Art of App Modernization
Christian Guedemann – CTO WebGate Consulting AG
Christoph Stoettner – Senior Consultant panagenda

About us
Christian Guedemann
@guedeWebGate
CTO
OpenNTF Chairman
Developer
Christoph Stoettner
@stoeps
Senior Consultant
Admin

IBM Connect 2017 Conference | Moscone West, San Francisco | February 20 - 23
Agenda
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• State of the Art Applications
• How to modernize my current Apps
• Needed Technology
• Example / Demo

Why
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Users will always find a way how the can solve their problems...
With you or Without you.
With your application or without your application.

State of the Art Applications
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IDENTITY
ADAPTER
Identity 
Mgmt
Customer
Employee
REST API
WEB 
UI
RESSOURCE
ADAPTER
ERP
USER 
MGMT
RESSOURCE 
MGMT
BILLING
PAYMENTS
NOTIFICATIONS
DB
DB
ADAPTER
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Past
• Monolithic
• Pro:
• Simple to test (really?)
• Easy to deploy
• Cons:
• Complexity grows
• Implementing new
features becomes
difficult and time
consuming
• Difficult to adopt new
frameworks

Monolithic
Business 
Processes
Human
Tasks
Business 
Rules
Interface Business Objects Relationships
Message Queue
J2EE Runtime
Business 
Processes
Business Logic
Business 
Rules
Application Behaviour
Data
NSF Runtime

Past
To summarize:  
You have a successful business-critical application that has grown into a
monstrous monolith that very few, if any, developers understand. It is
written using obsolete, unproductive technology that makes hiring talented
developers difficult. The application is difficult to scale and is unreliable. As
a result, agile development and delivery of applications is impossible.
Source: https://www.nginx.com/blog/introduction-to-microservices/

• Micro Services
• Pro:
• Technology
Heterogeneity
• Resilience
• Scaling
• Organizational Alignment
• Composability
• Cons:
• Distributed System
• More complex to deploy,
test, and monitor
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State of the Art Applications
EMPLOYEE 
WEB UI
REST
API
NOTIFICATIONS
REST
API
RESSOURCES
REST
API
BILLING
REST
API
CUSTOMER 
WEB UI
REST
API
PAYMENTS
REST
API
USER 
MGMT
REST
API
Customer
Employee
API
GATEWAY
IDENTITY
ADAPTER
RESSOURCE
ADAPTER
DB
ADAPTER
DB
ADAPTER
DB
ADAPTER
-> 12-Factor-App pattern: https://12factor.net/

Micro Services and IBM Domino
• Notes Applications contain Business Logic in every Design
element
• Accessing Notes Databases (NSF) via Domino Data Services
Rest API means bypassing the implemented Business logic
• Turns an NSF into a simple, stupid Data store
• Exposes all properties of a document as JSON
• Is a security issue, because every User with a Browser and
Access rights can modify the documents (e.g. if the field
“Approval” controls the expense approval, a user can set this
field to “approved” with only using his browser or Postman)
• A Notes Application contains security layers to protect the
business logic

Turn an NSF into a Micro Service with SmartNSF
A new design element in the Domino
Designer provides Access to
“routes.groovy”

A DEVELOPER DEFINES WITH A
DSL (DOMAIN SPECIFIC
LANGUAGE) THE ROUTING OF THE
MICRO SERVICE

router.GET(…) router.PUT(…) router.POST(…)
• router.<VERB>(<route>,
<Configuration>)
• The router is the object, that let you
register some routes and
capabilities for the micro service
• All routes are available under
“<dbname>.nsf/xsp/.xrest/
<ROUTE>
• A REST Call must match the route
• <VERB>: Can be GET, PUT, POST
and are mapped to the Methods of the
HTTP Protocol
• <ROUTE>: is the Path. e.g.
“customers/{id}”
• {id} -> this part of the URL will become
available as Variable. Means a call to
“.nsf/xsp/.xrest/customers/33221” will
be evaluated with the specified route.
33221 will be available as value of the
variable {id}
• <CONFIGURATION>: The
configuration of this Route

Configuration Elements for a Route 
router.<VERB>(<ROUTE>, <CONFIG>) 
strategy
• strategy(STRATEGY_NAME, { 
viewName “ProjectLookup” 
keyVariableName “id” 
}
A strategy defines how to access one
or more documents. There are several
strategies implemented and also a
CUSTOM strategy available, which
activates a bean
• STRATEGY_NAME: Name of
the Strategy. Each strategy has
its own configuration.
• GET_DOCUMENT_FROM_VIEW_BY_KEY,
GET_BY_UNID, SEARCH_FT,
SELECT_BY_FORMULA, ALL_BY_VIEW,
ALL_FROM_VIEW_BY_KEY,
CUSTOM_STRATEGY;

events
• events({ 
VALIDATE { context -> 
// Some Code to validate the call, 
// throws a EventException() if
something // goes wrong 
} 
})
A event can be used to intercept the
transformation from a document to
JSON and back. There are several
events defined to control the  
micro service
EVENTS:
VALIDATE
PRE_SAVE
POST_SAVE
PRE_LOAD_DOCUMENT
POST_LOAD_DOCUMENT
PRE_SUBMIT

accessPermission
• accessPermission
”[DbManager]”,“[MainEditor]”
• accessPermission { context -> 
//Code that returns a
List<String> 
}
With accessPermission it can be
controlled which user can access
the defined route.
If a user is not part of the database
role or group, its not possible to
execute this route for the current
user

mapJson
• mapJson “projectTitle”,
toJson:’title’, type:’String’
• mapJson “projectOwner”,
toJson:’owner’, type:’Array’
mapJson controls which fields of
the document are exposed as Json
Object, or in case of a PUT
instruction, which Json property  
is mapped to what field
mapJson:
“fieldName”
toJson -> name of the Json
Property
type – enforces a specific type
(String, Number, Array, …)
convertToJson: {value ->}
convertFromJson: { value ->}

Technology - IT Infrastructure
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On-Premises
Platform
OS - Middleware - Runtime
Applications
Packaged Software
Infrastructure 
Servers - Storage - Network
IaaS
Platform
Applications
Packaged Software
Infrastructure 
PaaS
Platform
Applications
Packaged Software
Infrastructure 
SaaS
Platform
Applications
Packaged Software
Infrastructure 
Micro 
Service
Micro 
Service
Micro 
Service

Technology - VMs vs Containers
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Platform
Applications
Packaged Software
Infrastructure 
Host OS
Bins/Libs
Infrastructure 
Hypervisor
Guest OS Guest OS Guest OS
App
Bins/Libs
App
Bins/Libs
App
Micro 
Service
Host OS
Bins/Libs
Infrastructure 
Docker Engine (Kernel)
App
Bins/Libs
App
Bins/Libs
App
Micro 
Service
VM
Container

Docker containers wrap up a
piece of software in a complete
filesystem that contains
everything it needs to run: code,
runtime, system tools, system
libraries – anything you can install
on a server. This guarantees that
it will always run the same,
regardless of the environment it
is running in.
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Technology - Docker?
http://www.boycottdocker.org/

Technology - Docker?
Development
VM
QA
Server
On-Premises 
Data Center
Cloud
Data Center
Production
Cluster
External Developer
laptop
Static website User DB Queue Analytics DB
Build Once, Configure Once
& Run Anywhere (x86-64)
Content Agnostic
Hardware Agnostic

Technology - Why containers matter - Standards & Automation

• Deploy Servers
• Install Dependencies
• Install Applications
• Configure Applications
• Takes days or weeks,
even if scripted
• Needs Admins
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Technology - Deploy Monolith

• Deploy Containers
• On-Premises or Cloud or
both
• Orchestrate the Containers
(Kubernetes, OpenShift,
IBM Spectrum Conductor
for Containers)
• Takes minutes or hours
• No Admins needed
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Technology - DevOps - Deploy Micro Services
Customer
Employee
Sure?!?

Technology
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http://de.slideshare.net/MichaelDucy/the-future-of-everything-37344357

Technology - Admins - Call for action
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• Play with:
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• Try to deploy containers to Bluemix
• Together with your Developers look at:
• Cloudfoundry / IBM Bluemix
• OpenShift
• Look at OpenSource software:
• Message Brokers (Redis, Kafka, ActiveMQ, Mosquitto…)
• DBs (MariaDB, ElasticSearch, MongoDB, PostgreSQL…)
• Especially time series DBs (InfluxDB, Graphite or commercial IBM Informix)
• Visualisation (Kibana, Grafana)

Technology - Developer - Call for action
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• Play with:
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• Try to deploy containers to Bluemix
• Together with your Developers look at:
• Cloudfoundry / IBM Bluemix
• OpenShift
• Look at OpenSource software:
• Message Brokers (Redis, Kafka, ActiveMQ, Mosquitto…)
• DBs (MariaDB, ElasticSearch, MongoDB, PostgreSQL…)
• Especially time series DBs (InfluxDB, Graphite or commercial IBM Informix)
• Visualisation (Kibana, Grafana)

Example Setup
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• Let‘s do Something CRAZY
• We take IBM Verse, extend it and connect a Micro Service
from our Domino Server and combine this with the Watson
Alchemy API!

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