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Best Practices for Microservices


Microservices are a top tech trend for 2016

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Business model transformation

Enhancing customer

experiences

New products and services

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1. What are Microservices and why are they good for business?

2. Continuous delivery of Microservices

3. Self-service of Microservice consumption

4. Best practices for Microservices using Anypoint Platform

Agenda

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What the Business wants from IT

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Customer Experience Composable Enterprise Valuable Assets


Interoperability

Benefits to the Business

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Business and IT Alignment

LOB Enablement

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Basics

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Fundamental Building Block

Core Business Capability Participant in Customer transaction


Consumption Modes

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REST API Event-driven Composition


API-led Connectivity

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System APIs(Core Business Capabilities)

Process APIs(Composition of APIs through Orchestration and Choreography)

Experience APIs(Adaptations to deliver tailored APIs to apps)

Mainframe FTP, Files Databases Legacy Systems SaaS apps ApplicationsWeb services

Central IT

LoB Dev/IT

App Dev

Accessibility& Ownership


What is ‘micro’ in Microservices?

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Discrete Responsibility Team Organization Ease of Deployment


Design Characteristics

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• Business oriented

• Adaptable

• Autonomous

• Loosely coupled

• Discoverable

• Composable


Business Domain Orientation

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•Focus on Business domains

•Cross-domain integration through Experience APIs

•Avoids the Monolith

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Continuous Delivery of Microservices

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• A business ideal only realizable through small artifacts

• Software Development Lifecycle

• From Continuous Integration to continuous release

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Self-service of Microservice Consumption

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• Decentralization of Microservice access requires API Management

• Publication of APIs across LOBs

• Reutilize and / or adapt Microservices with auto-generated Proxies

• Apply policies in order to tailor Microservices for specfic usage

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Anypoint Platform

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Mule

Anypoint Connectors

Hybrid Cloud Runtime services

Anypoint Design Center Anypoint Management Center

Anypoint ExchangeStudio API Designer

Connector DevKit

Runtime Manager

API Manager Analytics


Build

Engage

Test

Model

Simulate

Validate

Solicit Feedback

Design

Manage

End-to-End Microservice Development Lifecycle


Build

Engage

Test

Model

Simulate

Validate

Solicit Feedback

Design

Manage

API Designer

Mocking Services

Anypoint StudioMUnit

API Console

API Portal

Analytics API Notebook

MuleSoft Tools mapped to the Microservice life-cycle

Anypoint Exchange

Anypoint Exchange

Anypoint Exchange


Build

Engage

Test

Model

Simulate

Validate

Solicit Feedback

Design

Manage

Discover, Contribute, Collaborate, Innovate

Anypoint Exchange

Anypoint Exchange

Anypoint Exchange


Release

Package

MuleSoft SDLC tools for Microservices CI/CDDevelopment

Production

Anypoint StudioDeveloper

Run Mocked TestsRun Unit Tests

Run TestsRun Build Process

DEVELOPMENT

UAT

PRODUCTION

Create Mocked TestsCreate Unit Tests Functional Tests

Test Driven Design

Mule Microservice

Mule Microservice

Mule Microservice


Anatomy of a Mule microservice

RAML specification• Traits• ResourceTypes• SecuritySchemes• Re-usable properties• ….

Mule deployable

archive(.zip)Mule Runtime

Logic

Connectivity

API Contract

Connectivity• MQ, Database, SOAP,

HTTP, SaaS, OTS software

• Protocol implementation

• Connections/resources management

• Pooling…

Business Logic flows• Routing• Enrichment• Transformation• Aggregation• Parallel execution• Splitting• ….


VMOS

Java Virtual Machine

Mule Runtime

Mule microservice on-prem runtime

Logic

Connectivity

API Contract


VMOS

Container

Java Virtual Machine

Mule Runtime

Mule microservice on private PaaS

Logic

Connectivity

API Contract

PaaS


3rd Party Tools

Build

Runtime Platform

Deploy, Manage, Scale

CI/CD

Studio

JUnit

Dev

Test

Stage

Prod

Anypoint Platform (on-premises)

Runtime Manager

API Manager Exchange

Com

mit

ShipImage

Development

Operations

Mgmt Agent


CloudHub

Mule microservice on CloudHub

Mule Runtime

Logic

Connectivity

API Contract

• Fully hosted and managed• Secure, scalable, HA, DR• Self-serve• Global• No Microservice Premium


Unified Platform for Microservices


Legacy

ESBMainframe FTP

SaaS apps

LOB 1

Global System / Backend

System API’s

Process API’s

Experience API’s

LOB 2

System API’s

Process API’s

Experience API’s

Global Frontend

Decentralized Platform for Microservices

Biz Apps

Business Groups


Questions

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