Microservice Memoirs

@LachlanEvenson

Team Lead, Cloud Platform

Mike Ottinger

Lead Full Stack Engineer

WHO ARE WE?

The Lithium software platform helps brands connect, engage and understand their customers.

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IT’S NOT JUST MICROSERVICES

• Cloud

• Automation

• DevOps

• Microservices

• NoOps

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CLOUD V1

• Private and Public Cloud– AWS

– OpenStack

• Lots of Forklifting

• Waterfall

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CLOUD V1

• Why weren’t we satisfied?

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MIRCOSERVICES GROUND RULES

• Make sure you are solving business problems

• Service customer needs first

• Embrace your monoliths

• Control the tire fire

• Be incremental

• You will have to rethink everything

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MIRCOSERVICES GROUND RULES CONT.

• Create ambassadors

• Stay in the “success zone”

• Eat your own dog food

• Make the running environment the current authority

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THE CATALYST

• Container revolution

• Single artifact that is re-deployable

• Kick the can approach - Incremental revolution

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CURRENT STATE OF PLAY

• Opinionated common pipeline and platform

• Modular elements

• All new services in containers

• Container orchestration

• New tooling

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DEAD BODIES

• Trouble in paradise– RPC

– Circular dependencies

– Maintaining consistent service contract points

– Distributed tracing

– Latencies

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KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Be incremental

• Fail fast

• Keep it simple

• Opinion matters

• Chase the MVP not perfection

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THANKS!

• Questions? We love questions!

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Q & A WITH MIKE OTTINGER

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