Microservices with Node.js for BrisJS
- 1. Microservices with Node.js by Ashley Davis Author of Bootstrapping Microservices Ashley Davis Twitter @ashleydavis75 Email ashley@codecapers.com.au LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/in/ashleydavis75
- 2. About Me CTO of Sortal https://www.sortal.io Developer of Data-Forge Notebook https://www.data-forge-notebook.com Author of Data Wrangling with JavaScript Bootstrapping Microservices Ashley Davis Twitter @ashleydavis75 Email ashley@codecapers.com.au LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/in/ashleydavis75
- 3. Bootstrapping Microservices http://bit.ly/2o0aDsP Book giveaway and discount code at the end of the talk Ashley Davis Twitter @ashleydavis75 Email ashley@codecapers.com.au LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/in/ashleydavis75
- 4. What is a monolith? A monolith is an entire application that runs in a single process Ashley Davis Twitter @ashleydavis75 Email ashley@codecapers.com.au LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/in/ashleydavis75
- 5. What's wrong with the monolith? •Start simple, but will become very complex •Difficult to scale •Difficult to restructure •Large deployment risk •Large attack surface •Once dependent, it is difficult to leave Ashley Davis Twitter @ashleydavis75 Email ashley@codecapers.com.au LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/in/ashleydavis75
- 6. What is a microservice? It is a small independent software process with an independent deployment schedule Ashley Davis Twitter @ashleydavis75 Email ashley@codecapers.com.au LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/in/ashleydavis75
- 7. What is a microservices application? It is a distributed application composed of tiny software processes that communicate via the network Ashley Davis Twitter @ashleydavis75 Email ashley@codecapers.com.au LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/in/ashleydavis75
- 8. The spectrum Ashley Davis Twitter @ashleydavis75 Email ashley@codecapers.com.au LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/in/ashleydavis75
- 9. Why are microservices popular now? • Modern automatable tools • Cheap cloud infrastructure • DevOps + infrastructure as code Ashley Davis Twitter @ashleydavis75 Email ashley@codecapers.com.au LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/in/ashleydavis75
- 10. Why microservices? • Complexity management • Fine grained control • Fault isolation • Minimize deployment risk • Scalable team structure • Scalable performance • Isolate technical debt Ashley Davis Twitter @ashleydavis75 Email ashley@codecapers.com.au LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/in/ashleydavis75
- 11. Why Node.js? • JavaScript is the world's most practical language • Go truly full stack • Node.js was made for this • Node.js is network oriented • Microservices in Node.js are simple • Passing data between services is easy • Node.js has a huge community Ashley Davis Twitter @ashleydavis75 Email ashley@codecapers.com.au LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/in/ashleydavis75
- 12. The basic needs of a microservice • Communication • Handle requests • Make requests • Process events • Emit events • Storage • Database • File storage Ashley Davis Twitter @ashleydavis75 Email ashley@codecapers.com.au LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/in/ashleydavis75
- 13. Code time Commence prayers to demo gods Ashley Davis Twitter @ashleydavis75 Email ashley@codecapers.com.au LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/in/ashleydavis75
- 14. There’s more to learn… • Scaling up to multiple microservices • Testing microservices • Automated continuous delivery (CD) • Automated testing in the CD pipeline • Deployment to production Ashley Davis Twitter @ashleydavis75 Email ashley@codecapers.com.au LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/in/ashleydavis75
- 15. Bootstrapping Microservices: http://bit.ly/2o0aDsP Discount code: mtpdavis21 Ashley Davis Twitter @ashleydavis75 Email ashley@codecapers.com.au LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/in/ashleydavis75