Microservices Architecture (MSA) - Presentation made at The Open Group conference 2015, San Diego CA
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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.
Microservices Architecture (MSA) - Presentation made at The Open Group conference 2015, San Diego CA
- 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 Disclaimer: Opinions expressed are solely our own and do not express the views or opinions of our current or past employers.
- 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. ”
- 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
- 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