What Are They?

Monolith

• Difficult to upgrade
• Wide System Knowledge Required
• Shared DB

Service Oriented Architecture

• Easier to upgrade
• Lack of constraints can create monolithic services
• Shared DB

Small Interconnected Services

Independent Processes

Private Data Store

Immutable Infrastructure

We deployed 11,000 times in 2015.

Modular Middleware

• Authentication
• Error Handling

Unified & Intelligent Endpoints

/v1/account/1/
/v1/account/1/location/56/
/v1/account/1/location/56/fixture/42/
/v1/account/1/location/56/usage/
/v1/account/1/billing/
                            

Document Everything Everywhere

Health Checks

Infrastructure Management must be Automated

Plan for Failure

Routing & Load Balancing

• HAProxy
• NGINX
• Baker Street

Service Discovery

• consul - Hashicorp
• etcd - CoreOS
• zookeeper - Apache
• bamboo - Qubit
• synapse - Airbnb

Network Monitoring

• Riemann
• Bosun
• Prometheus
• Nagios

Infrastructure Management

• Terraform
• CloudFormation
• Packer
• Chef
• Puppet
• Apex

Microservices

• Microservices Guide - Martin Fowler
• How big is a microservice - Ben Morris
• Amazon and the Lean Cloud - Werner Vogels

Service Discovery/Routing

• True Zero Downtime HAProxy Reloads - Yelp
• SmartStack: Service Discovery in the Cloud - Airbnb

Infrastructure

• Trash Your Servers and Burn Your Code - Chad Fowler