Managing Data with Microservices – Building a Flexible Integration Platform

Managing Data with Microservices

Building a Flexible Integration Platform

Authored by Tim Spaulding / @rx00405

Business Need

• No system of record for marketing data made attribution inconsistent and inaccurrate
• Databases were not designed for multi-tenant platform
• Client configuration was not accounted for when data was used
• Data quality was inconsistently reviewed
• Data needed to be consistently maintained across services

Customer Engagement Solution

Features

• API contract defined by JSON Schema-based schemas
• Schemas presented by their own service
• API domain organized by micro-services and presented to look like a single application
• User experience uses same APIs available for other applications
• Server tier built on integration platform (Mule ESB) to make integrating with new services cheap to implement
• Design translates batch-driven into event-driven making processing data less failure-prone

Questions?