Practical Approaches to Microservices Architecture
Join software architecture experts Marc Siegel, Brian Roberts, Matt Stine, Jake Moshenko, and Maria Gomez for a hands-on, in-depth exploration of microservices. This online conference will arm you with crucial knowledge to apply to your own systems.
June 9, 2016
10:00AM – 2:00PM PDT
Microservices architectures are revolutionizing the way software is envisioned and built. In this online conference, you’ll learn how to prepare to move to a microservices architecture, about different use cases for microservices, how to create reactive and fault-tolerant systems, and more from five experienced software architects.
This online conference focuses on one of the key tracks from the upcoming O’Reilly Software Architecture Conference (October 19–21 in London, UK). This four-hour deep dive into practical approaches to microservices architecture will arm you with crucial knowledge to apply to your own systems.
Session 1: 10:00AM
From CRUD to Event Sourcing an Investible Stock Universe
At TIM Group, a financial software firm based in London, Marc Siegel and Brian Roberts re-architected their Investible Stock Universe service with Event Sourcing, replacing REST/CRUD with task-specific read projections. In this talk, Marc and Brian discuss differences between these architectures for this type of use case, and impacts on availability, determinism, auditability, performance, and correctness. No prior knowledge of financial market data or Event Sourcing is necessary to benefit from this practical and insightful examination of architectures.
Marc Siegel is a software team lead at TIM Group, a Financial Software firm based in London. He has experience in web applications and event-driven systems, sometimes simultaneously. Marc graduated with B.S. in Computer Science from Brown University in 2003, and went to work developing heterogeneous mobile network nodes at MIT Lincoln Laboratory.
In start-ups he has led development efforts from bidding systems for internet advertising to mobile hand-held inspection software for tower cranes, although he is afraid of heights. He is passionate about building systems that tell the truth when asked questions.
Brian Roberts is a magician skilled in the dark of art of distilling complex requirements into simple, yet powerful systems, and has led agile teams to quickly produce algorithmically-intensive software systems in financial systems, planning systems, artificial intelligence and other domains. He has taught both machines and human children.
Currently, he is Senior Developer/Team Lead at TIM Group, a Financial Software firm based in London. Brian graduated with an M.S. in Computer Science from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 2003.
Session 2: 11:00AM
Reactive Fault Tolerant Programming with Hystrix and RxJava
As we build distributed systems composed of microservices, we introduce new potential performance problems and failure points. As the number of nodes in our system increases, these problems rapidly amplify. To keep our composite systems responsive, we can apply the techniques of reactive programming, and to keep them healthy, we can apply fault tolerance patterns like circuit breakers and bulkheads. In this presentation we’ll examine how to use two popular libraries from Netflix, Hystrix and RxJava, to create reactive and fault tolerant systems.
Matt Stine is a technical product manager at Pivotal. He is a 15-year veteran of the enterprise IT industry, with experience spanning numerous business domains. Matt is obsessed with the idea that enterprise IT “doesn’t have to suck,” and spends much of his time thinking about lean/agile software development methodologies, DevOps, architectural principles/patterns/practices, and programming paradigms.
His current focus is driving Pivotal’s solutions around supporting microservices architectures with Cloud Foundry and Spring. Matt has spoken at conferences ranging from JavaOne to OSCON to YOW!, is a five-year member of the No Fluff Just Stuff tour, and serves as Technical Editor of NFJS the Magazine. Matt is also the founder and past president of the Memphis Java User Group.
Session 3: 12:00PM
Containers and Microservices: New Ways to Deploy and Manage Applications at Scale
Many organizations are beginning to adopt microservices in an attempt to streamline product delivery and increase developer agility, but this new style of application architecture requires a shift in thinking about how we approach building out the underlying infrastructure. Thanks to continuous delivery, applications are now being deployed faster than ever, leading to the adoption of new technologies such as application containers and cluster management tools.
An important piece of enabling microservices are containers. Containers allow a service to run on any host at any time and provide a new level of application portability. Jake Moshenko looks at the container microservices landscape and how CoreOS and Quay fit into the development lifecycle, from pushing Git changes to running in production. From this talk, you’ll gain an understanding how different components work together to manage applications at scale.
Jake Moshenko is the product manager for the Quay container registry at CoreOS, a Linux distribution with containers as a first-class citizen and software-distribution channel. Formerly at Google, Amazon, and Boeing, Jake has been building robust distributed systems for over 10 years.
Session 4: 1:00PM
Transitioning to Microservices
Agile practices and techniques like continuous delivery are all about being able to react to changes rapidly, but putting them into practice when you have a big monolith application can be difficult. Microservices offer one solution. It gives you many advantages (like scalability and technical flexibility), but it comes with upfront costs and complexity that few companies are in a position to pay. In this session, Maria Gomez explores the prerequisites for moving into a microservices architecture and provides tips on how to achieve them.
María Gómez is a tech lead and lead consultant at ThoughtWorks. Over her more than eight years of industry experience, María has worked with many different technologies and domains, which has helped her lead teams and advise stakeholders in making the right technology decisions.
She has talked about microservices at various conferences in South America, including Ecuador Campus Party, Agile Uruguay, and SOALATAM Peru.