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Transcript
Building Reliable APIs Matt Heath, Monzo
Matt Heath, Monzo @mattheath
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monoliths traditional dev
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What do we mean by “reliable”?
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Contacting us Using your debit card Making payments Freezing your
card Viewing your balance Viewing recent transactions Sending emoji reactions Setting your profile picture Viewing merchant logos
Contacting us Using your debit card Making payments Freezing your
card Viewing your balance Viewing recent transactions Sending emoji reactions Setting your profile picture Viewing merchant logos
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Application
Application
APPLICATION Application
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API
API
API Gateway API Service API Service API Service API Service
API Service API Service API Service API Service
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API Gateway Accounts Cards Pots Emojis Payments …
API Gateway Accounts Cards Pots Emojis Payments … New Exciting
API!!
Cards Pots Emojis Payments … API Gateway Accounts New Exciting
API!!
Cards Pots Emojis Payments … API Gateway Accounts New Exciting
API!!
API Gateway Accounts Cards Pots Emojis Payments … New Exciting
API!!
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pod
pod container container container
pod API service
pod
pod
pods replica set
replica set pods deployment
pods replica set deployment
pods replica set deployment change
deployment change old pods old replica set
deployment change old pods old replica set new replica set
deployment change old pods old replica set new replica set
new pod
deployment change old pods old replica set new replica set
new pod
deployment change old replica set new pods new replica set
deployment change new replica set new pods
deployment replica set pods
pods
pods service
pods service kubedns
pods service routing - static cluster IP managed replicas resource
allocations rollout strategies liveness checks anti-affinity, etc kubedns routing - “service name”
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machine
machine machine
machine machine machine machine machine machine
machine machine machine machine machine machine Kubernetes
machine machine machine machine machine kubelet
kubelet kubelet kubelet kubelet kubelet kubelet
kubelet kubelet kubelet kubelet kubelet kubelet Kubernetes Master
kubelet kubelet kubelet kubelet kubelet kubelet Kubernetes Master etcd
kubernetes
kubernetes service service service service service service service service service
service
kubernetes service service service service service service service service service
service
kubernetes service service service service service service service service service
service
kubernetes service service service service service service service service service
service
kubernetes service service service service service service service service service
service service service service
kubernetes service service service service service service service service service
service
Reliable inter-service communication
Service Service
Service Service Service Service
Service Service Service Service Kubernetes Service
Service Discovery Load Balancing Timeouts and Expirations Retries Rate Limiting
Connection Pooling Circuit Breaking Failure Detection Metrics and Tracing Interrupts Context Propagation
Service Discovery Load Balancing Timeouts and Expirations Retries Rate Limiting
Connection Pooling Circuit Breaking Failure Detection Metrics and Tracing Interrupts Context Propagation
Service Service Service Service ?
Service Service Service Service linkerd
Service linkerd
Service linkerd service discovery
Service Service Service Service linkerd service discovery
Service Service Service Service linkerd
Service Service Service Service linkerd
Service Service Service Service linkerd
Service Service Service Service linkerd
Event Driven Architecture
Service A Service B Load Balancer Edge Gateway API Service
API Service Service A Service B Load Balancer Edge Gateway
API Service Service A Service B Load Balancer Edge Gateway
Service D Service E
API Service Service A Service B Load Balancer Edge Gateway
Service C Service D Service E
API Service Service A Service B Load Balancer Edge Gateway
Service C Service D Service E
API Service Service A Service B Load Balancer Edge Gateway
Service C Service D Service E
API Service Service A Service B Load Balancer Edge Gateway
Service C Service D Service E
API Service Service A Service B Load Balancer Edge Gateway
Service C Service D Service E Service D
API Service Service A Service B Load Balancer Edge Gateway
Service C Service D Service E Service D
API card-api card-processing cards transactions balance transaction-enrichment merchant feed-generator feed
apns API card-api card-processing cards transactions balance transaction-enrichment merchant feed-generator feed apns
API card-api card-processing cards transactions balance transaction-enrichment merchant feed-generator feed
apns API card-api card-processing cards transactions balance transaction-enrichment merchant feed-generator feed apns
API card-api card-processing cards transactions balance transaction-enrichment merchant feed-generator feed
apns API card-api card-processing cards transactions balance transaction-enrichment merchant feed-generator feed apns
API card-api card-processing cards transactions balance transaction-enrichment merchant feed-generator feed
apns API card-api card-processing cards transactions balance transaction-enrichment merchant feed-generator feed apns
API card-api card-processing cards transactions balance transaction-enrichment merchant feed-generator feed
apns API card-api card-processing cards transactions balance transaction-enrichment merchant feed-generator feed apns
API card-api card-processing cards transactions balance transaction-enrichment merchant feed-generator feed
apns API card-api card-processing cards transactions balance transaction-enrichment merchant feed-generator feed apns
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API card-api card-processing cards transactions balance transaction-enrichment merchant feed-generator feed
apns API card-api card-processing cards transactions balance transaction-enrichment merchant feed-generator feed apns
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Critical Path
How do we make systems reliable?
Masterless systems No single points of failure Simple / small
components Minimise critical path Queue deferrable tasks Automated failure correction
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