Delivered at IBM Think March 2018 aimed at Business people, not developers, to help understand the microservices environment.

1. Duplo World
Keith Brooks - CIO
keith@crgolaw.com
@lotusevangelist
Conference
Session 2858
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2. Brooks?
Fractional
CIO
Chief
Whisperer
Redbooks
Thought
Leader
IBM
Champion
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3. https://www.cloudave.com/14675/the-evolution-of-it-towards-cloud-computing/ 3

4. Have you broken any of your Client/Server
architecture down yet?
Do your developers workflow charts look like a
skyscraper blueprint?
Do you rely on more “outside” applications than
internal ones?
World?LEGO
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5. https://pmcdeadline2.files.wordpress.com/2017/02/the-big-bang-theory-lego.jpg?w=446&h=299&crop=1
https://www.finedininglovers.com/blog/out-of-the-blue/lego-foods/
http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2012/08/22/darth-vader-lego-needs-
beer-pic/
Like it
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6. • Not quite the same feeling or time required
• One can not really test an API or a piece of code
in the time it takes to eat a doughnut
“..when it comes to the length of a Free Trial, many
people want to believe there is a magic number –
7, 14, 15, 30, 45, 60, 90..” – Lincoln Murphy
https://sixteenventures.com/ideal-free-trial-length
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7. IBM Cloud Includes a Few Things
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8. IBM Cloud (Bluemix) Includes a Few Things #2
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9. IBM Cloud (Bluemix) Includes a Few Things #3
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10. (Ok, 5 out of 7)
Layers
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11. • Still a server, but YOU don’t manage it
• Not to be confused with headless servers
• FaaS (Function as a Service)
Server?
vs.
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12. • IBM Cloud Functions (based on Apache
OpenWhisk) is a FaaS platform which
executes functions in response to incoming
events
• It costs nothing when not in use.
• The FaaS executes application logic but does
not store data.
Server?
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13. App
http://cloudswithcarl.com/blog/2016/07/08/start-with-serverless-computing-on-ibm-cloud-part-1/
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14. • Developers have freedom to independently develop and deploy
services, make use of newer technologies, easy to modify
• Can be developed by a fairly small team
• Code for different services can be written in different languages
• Easy integration and automatic deployment
• Code is organized around business capabilities
• Starts the web container more quickly, so deployment is faster
• When change is required in a certain part of the application, only
the related service needs to be modified and redeployed
• If one microservice fails, the other will continue to work
• Easier to scale and integrate with third-party services
• No long-term commitment to technology stack 14

15. • Testing can be complicated and tedious with some many parts
• Architecture brings developers issues like mitigating fault
tolerance, network latency, load balancing, varied message
formats
• As it grows, integration and managing the application can become
complicated
• Developers have to plan for communication between the services
• Situations may require communication and cooperation between
different teams
• The architecture usually results in increased memory consumption
• Partitioning the application into microservices is very much an art
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16. One server does everything, but is also the single
point of failure
When microservices are broken down, they all
become a point of failure to the server.
Have you coded for failover or secondary
services for, not if, but when, the service
dies/drops?
Failure
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17. High Level remember to think about:
1)Design for a collection of services
2)Separate the data
3)Communications between components
4)Design for performance and scaling
5)Security starts within the application
6)Monitor all the pieces
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18. 18
AppDynamics
I was impressed by
their solution in
the showcase

19. IBM Cloud https://www.ibm.com/cloud/solutions/
Sign up for an IBM Cloud Lite Account! https://ibm.biz/BdZqwA
App Dynamics https://www.appdynamics.com/
Erin Mckean, IBM Developer Advocate
https://github.com/emckean/serverless-for-managers-lab
Links?
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20. Keith Brooks - CIO
CRGO Law
keith@crgolaw.com
@lotusevangelist
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