Applying Domain-Driven Design to APIs and Microservices - Austin API Meetup
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This document discusses applying domain-driven design principles to API and microservices architecture. It recommends using an outside-in design approach where the data model is separate from the object model and resource model. Domain-driven design helps identify context boundaries, and microservices require renewed focus on system and API design. Modeling the domain entities, relations, states and events defines the resources exposed by each API. This modular design increases composability and the ability to replace services over time.
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Applying Domain-Driven Design to APIs and Microservices - Austin API Meetup
- 1. Applying Domain Driven Design to APIs and Microservices James Higginbotham james@launchany.com @launchany
- 2. Great API Design is critical for product adoption and long-term API success
- 5. API design also tells a story about your company and your vision of what the world can become.
- 9. Your API design defines the capabilities or skills your API offers to developers
- 13. API Design is an architectural concern that combines business drivers, product design, and software design
- 14. Outside-In API Design Approach “My data model is not my object model” – Data model is for internal storage “My object model is not my resource model” – Resources is for external, context-based collaboration – Object model is for internal software collaboration “My resource model is not my representation model” – There are many ways to represent resources e.g. JSON, XML, CSV, HTML - Mike Amundsen, API-Craft Google Group - https://groups.google.com/forum/#!search/my$20resource$20model$20is$20not/api- craft/n2Efmju5nLM/KUEyMOFIBAAJ
- 15. Applying Systems Design and Domain-Driven Design
- 16. What skills do your APIs need to offer?
- 18. Finding APIs through product and resource boundaries
- 19. Domain Driven Design (DDD) Mapping domain concepts into software Heavy focus on domain expert involvement Common vocabulary (“Ubiquitous Language”) Boundary-driven (“Bounded Context”) Applies learning over time Based on Eric Evans' book "Domain Driven Design”
- 20. Domain-Driven Design helps with identifying context boundaries for complex APIs
- 22. Lack of Modularization = Regret VS Function-Based Module-Based
- 23. Microservice Architecture Microservices are independently deployable, loosely-coupled components Apply bounded context to limit cognitive load Benefit from heavy automation (CI/CD) Enable replaceability and experimentation Encourage composability of the business for new products
- 24. Microservices require a renewed focus on systems and API design
- 25. Modeling a System System/Solution Subsystem Subsystem Module Module Module Module Subsystem Subsystem Module Module
- 26. LEGO as Modular System Design System Sub-systems Modules
- 27. LEGO as a System of Systems System System System System System
- 29. List Avail Inventory Distributor Add Product to Order Complete Order Cancel Booking Add Product to Inventory Update Product Qty Locate Booking Redeem Booking Point Of Sale Remove Product Customer Operator Operator
- 30. Order Mgmt List Avail Inventory Distributor Add Product to Order Complete Order Cancel Booking Add Product to Inventory Update Product Qty Locate Booking Redeem Booking Operator Point Of Sale Remove Product Customer Operator Inventory Mgmt Fulfillment
- 32. Each subsystem has an API that exposes one or more endpoints
- 33. Order API List Avail Inventory Distributor Add Product to Order Complete Order Cancel Booking Add Product to Inventory Update Product Qty Locate Booking Redeem Booking Point Of Sale Remove Product Customer Operator Inventory API Fulfillment API Operator
- 34. Identifying product opportunities becomes easier when we have boundaries around the APIs
- 35. Order API List Avail Inventory Distributor Add Product to Order Complete Order Cancel Booking Add Product to Inventory Update Product Qty Locate Booking Redeem Booking Operator Remove Product Inventory API Fulfillment API #1 #2 ` Point Of Sale
- 36. For every API, ask: “What resources will it offer?”
- 37. Use domain-driven design to find business entities, relations, state transitions, and events
- 38. Order API List Avail Inventory Add Product to Order Complete Order Cancel Booking Add Product to Inventory Update Product Qty Locate Booking Redeem Booking Remove Product Inventory API Fulfillment API
- 39. Order API Availabilities Orders Products (Inventory) Bookings Inventory API Fulfillment API Same entity (Products), Conceptually different to the API context!
- 40. Availabilities - product - date(s) avail - qty avail Orders - bookings - order total Products - name - avail schedule Bookings - product - date(s) - status
- 41. Availabilities - product - date(s) avail - qty avail availabilityChanged() Orders - bookings - order total created() updated() Products - name - avail schedule created() removed() updated() Bookings - product - date(s) - status redeemed() cancelled()
- 42. Availabilities - product - date(s) avail - qty avail availabilityChanged() Orders - bookings - order total created() updated() Products - name - avail schedule created() removed() updated() Bookings - product - date(s) - status redeemed() cancelled() Order API Inventory API Fulfillment API
- 43. Map Resources to the API
- 45. Public APIs target durability Microservice APIs target replaceability
- 46. Availabilities Service createAvailability() updateAvailability () deleteAvailability () … availabilityChanged( ) Orders Service createOrder() updateOrder () deleteOrder () … created() updated() Products Service createProduct() updateProduct () deleteProduct () … created() removed() updated() Bookings Service lookupBooking() redeemBooking () cancelBooking () … redeemed() cancelled() Order API Inventory API Fulfillment API Orders HTTP API Inventory HTTP API Fulfillment HTTP API
- 48. The Composable World of APIs Offers API Inventory API Bookings API Identity API Accounts API Rewards API Partners Internal Developers Public App Developers Consumers Third-party Approved Apps
- 49. Summary Great API design is critical for product adoption and long-term API success API Design is an architectural concern that combines business drivers, product design, and software design Systems design and DDD help with designing long-lasting APIs Use microservices where appropriate to increase composability of your business or product Be a storyteller using APIs
Editor's Notes
- We’re going to talk about how to design LONG-LASTING APIs. The goal is to avoid a redesign not long after your API is deployed. API TRAINING to help coach teams on how to think in APIs and apply the techniques I’ll show you today Across every team and company, I reiterate one common theme…
- At their core, APIs are contracts for software component interaction. How we design our APIs will drive the level of short and long-term success. As an example, STRIPE…
- Stripe is well known because they focus on great API design and documentation. But it extends beyond that. They tell a story with their API: “we power commerce for businesses of all sizes” Everything is built around that…
- Medhi recently tweeted that Stripe maintains 50 (actually now closer to 65) different versions of their API. They OWN VERSIONING, rather than pushing it to the CONSUMER. Event when we, as designers, MISS THE MARK Their API TELLS A STORY…
- FINTECH is exploding and Capital One is leading the way 3 APIs… Publicly sharing their processes, lessons, and future vision at SXSW Watch the videos
- Watson offers a variety of services for developing cognitive applications LANGUAGE, SPEECH, VISION, and DATA INSIGHTS
- Characters, stories, comics, creators, and events
- Kin Lane has been conducting API workshops at universities by showing how to ACCOMPLISH THINGS Zapier/IFTTT is his model for teaching the use of APIs
- Ticketmaster demonstrates how skills may vary based on a role or context – we will focus on this kind of API for the purposes of this talk This requires applying proper API design techniques Does your API reflect getting things done, or pushing data around?
- MOST SIGNIFICANT DESIGN DECISIONS Software design, not ivory tower architects WE ARE ALL software architects – we all make significant design decisions AT SOME POINT in the life cycle
- Web APIs are an architectural concern, but MORE THAN THAT – PRODUCT AND BUSINESS TODAY IS HTTP, TOMORROW may be something else Use architectural design techniques to drive your API design What is it we are trying to solve and how are we planning to solve it? THAT IS THE PRODUCT SIDE and WHAT IS MOST EXCITING TO ME
- Since we have to look at APIs as part of (or) a complete product, it requires OUTSIDE-IN design approaches Mike Admundsen wrote about this on a recent API craft google group
- I want to SHARE what METHODS I have USED to HELP TEAMS DESIGN APIs Product development = opportunity + need + solution Systems design defines how your product is architected API Systems design tells 2 stories: about how your API is architected (internal-facing), and how your API works within other solutions (external-facing)
- Ecommerce example – what does it take to place an order? These are the skills that our API must offer Essential step #1
- Next step is finding our APIs, product boundaries, and resource boundaries
- This is where our agile techniques such as REFACTORING and iterative development
- <<ADV…>>There are several popular web frameworks that make building a monolithic application easy – almost trivial. These frameworks commonly offer: accelerated development, code generation, open source plugins/extensions, simplified deployment and the ability to scale out by adding more instances as required to support the current load. The problem is that they encourage poor software architecture unless carefully monitored. This leads to a lack of proper modularization...
- 10 years, new frameworks, but they assume a single subsystem – the webapp or “site” They missed the mark for larger applications, trying to avoid SOA This is leading to “MONOLITHIC REGRET” and a lack of modular applications Microservices is becoming a common way to deal with this problem at LARGER SCALES
- Systems: SOLUTION to PROBLEM(s) Subsystems: BOUNDED CONCERNS Modules: BUILDING BLOCKS for Composition
- Demonstration of LEGO of how to BREAK a big KIT (problem) into smaller, manageable modules ALIGN OURSELVES based on core competencies
- Independent systems combined into a larger solution Each built by teams or TEAMS OF TEAMS
- Constrained on what I can share Extract concepts to demonstrate the process
- First step – list, understand what the business requirements were, how different parties were to interact with the system
- Group related activities participant(s) need to perform into subsystems Use the boundaries to determine: - what has already been built in-house - what needs to be built in-house - what can be replaced by COTS, third-party APIs
- We found 2 stories: a distributor story and an operator story = 2 PRODUCTS Operators vs Distributors drove API DESIGN, DOCS, MARKETING Different vocabularies for distributors and operators
- Not “what are your endpoints” or “what are your URLs”
- Discuss aggregates, entities, and value objects. Aggregates become resources, named after the root entity within Goal: Consistent naming that reflects the API’s intended use
- EVENTS – often MISSED OPPORTUNITY Callbacks change the way developers interact with you API, from POLLING to automatic NOTIFICATION when things change. Allows them to be more reactive to change in your own subsystems
- [recall early in the talk: when is my product ready to launch?] Our architecture shows us not only what we need to build, but what each party needs to accomplish their goals/solution. This helps us with product roadmaps, scheduling, and other internal aspects of product management.
- Durability == LONG LASTING Replaceability == AGILITY, EXPERIMENTATION, EVOLUTION
- HTTP is just a gateway to your underlying subsystems. Systems design help us find those boundaries Domain-driven design help us find our service boundaries Events tie them together