Learning to Love SOA

A story about programming big things.

1. A story about programming big things. Learning to Love SOA @rdegges @gostormpath
2. I’m Randall Degges Developer Evangelist at Stormpath Python / Node / Go Hacker
4. CNAM? Incoming Call: 818-217-9229 DEGGES,RANDALL
5. The Plan OpenCNAM DEGGES,RANDALL 818-217-9229
6. Mike: So… Wanna build it? Me: Sure… Why not?
8. Monolithic Architecture A single codebase that is responsible for handling all site functionality.
9. Service Oriented Architecture Many codebases that each do one thing and one thing only.
10. opencnam Github Repos • Public facing website. • Developer API. • Developer documentation. • Billing logic. • Email stuff. • Telephony interconnect. Monolithic App
11. Load Balancer Web Server Web Server Postgres Request
14. Problems :(
16. opencnam-www Rendering templates. Sending POST requests to my backend. Decoupling the Front End
17. Load Balancer Web Server Postgres Request opencnam Load Balancer Web Server Request opencnam-www
19. Web Server Postgres
20. opencnam-auth • Create users. • Edit users. • Delete users. Decoupling the Users
21. Backend Request opencnam Backend Request opencnam-www Backend Request opencnam-auth
23. opencnam-api • Telephony logic. • API logs. • API cache. Decoupling the API
24. Backend Request opencnam-api Backend Request opencnam-www Backend Request opencnam-auth
25. opencnam-billing opencnam-www opencnam-auth opencnam-api OpenCNAM Services opencnam-logs opencnam-stats
26. What I’ve Learned
27. Small codebases are easier to work with.
28. Small codebases are easier to scale.
29. Small codebases are more fun.
30. You can write less code.
31. The hardest thing about SOA is... opencnam-auth
32. • User account storage / encryption. • Authentication. • Authorization. • REST API management. • Social login. End User Your Webserver Stormpath API Stormpath
33. You’re the best! @rdegges @gostormpath