Microservices and Future of Infrastructure

Pini Reznikcontinuousdelivery.uglyduckling.nl

Evolution of IT

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Silod Application Architecture

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App/Infra Performance Parity

Architecture around Business Capabilities

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Principles

• Smart endpoints and dumb pipes• Decentralized Governance• Design for Failure• Infrastructure Automation• Evolutionary Design• Decentralized Data Management

Decentralised Data Management

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Data Lakes

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Disadvantages ???

• Operational overhead• Highly skilled operations• Duplication Of Effort• Distributed System Complexity• Asynchronicity Is Difficult!• Testability Challenges

My answer: Tough s***, building software is hard!

http://highscalability.com/blog/2014/4/8/microservices-not-a-free-lunch.html

From Monolithic to Multi-Cloud

Network-centric Architecture

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Future Challenges

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Conway’s Law

organizations which design systems ... are constrained to produce designs which are copies

of the communication structures of these organizations

Network-centric Organizations

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Antitude at Startup Weekend

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