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Microservices in the real world

Christopher Batey Freelancer / The Last Pickle @chbatey

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S!*t happens when you put a network between your classes

Christopher Batey Freelancer / The Last Pickle @chbatey

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Who am I?

• Freelance consultant: Docker, Kubernetes, Cassandra, JVM

• Work on a OS testing library for Cassandra

• Twitter: @chbatey

Heavily recruiting!!

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Background

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Background

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Background

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Background

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Background

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But why?????

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Small horizontal scalable services

• Move to small services independently deployed

- Login service

- Device service

- etc

• Move to a horizontally scalable Database that can run active active in multiple data centres

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Half way point

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So... what do systems look like now?

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Tech used

• All examples are on github

• Technologies used:

- Dropwizard

- Wiremock

- Hystrix

- Saboteur

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Java microservice definition?

A microservice in Java == no dependency injection framework

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Testing microservices

• You don’t know a service is fault tolerant if you don’t test faults

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Isolated service tests

Prime

Movie servicePlay Movie

Test

Real HTTP/TCP

Test

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Fault tolerance1.Don’t take forever - Timeouts2.Don’t try if you can’t succeed 3.Don’t whack a dead horse4.Turn broken stuff off

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1 - Don’t take forever

• If at first you don’t succeed, don’t take forever to tell someone

• Timeout and fail fast

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Which timeouts?

• Socket connection timeout

• Socket read timeout

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Your service hung for 30 seconds :(

Customer

You :(

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Which timeouts?

• Socket connection timeout

• Socket read timeout

• Resource acquisition

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Your service hung for 10 minutes :(

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Let’s think about this

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Adding an automated test

• Vagrant - launches + provisions local VMs

• Saboteur - uses tc, iptables to simulate network issues

• Wiremock - used to mock HTTP dependencies

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I can write an automated test for that?

Wiremock: •User Service •Device Service •Pin Service

S a b o t e u r

Vagrant + Virtual box

Test meAcceptance

prime to drop traffic

reset

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Dependency VM

Wiremock Stubbed Cassandra

192.168.2.2

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Wiremock

192.168.2.2

App under test

localhost

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HITTING THE SERVICE

PRIMING

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DEMO TIME

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A little more detail

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Wiremock

192.168.2.2

App under test

localhost 192.168.2.1

Delay is here

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Wiremock

192.168.2.2

App under test

localhost 192.168.2.1

Delay is here

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Wiremock

192.168.2.2

App under test

localhost 192.168.2.1

Delay is here

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Wiremock

192.168.2.2

App under test

localhost 192.168.2.1

Delay is here

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Implementing reliable timeouts

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Implementing reliable timeouts

• Protect the container thread!

• Homemade: Worker Queue + Thread pool (executor)

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Implementing reliable timeouts

• Protect the container thread!

• Homemade: Worker Queue + Thread pool (executor)

• Hystrix

• Spring cloud Netflix

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A simple Spring RestController

@RestControllerpublic class Resource { private static final Logger LOGGER = LoggerFactory.getLogger(Resource.class); @Autowired private ScaryDependency scaryDependency; @RequestMapping("/scary") public String callTheScaryDependency() { LOGGER.info("Resource later: I wonder which thread I am on!"); return scaryDependency.getScaryString(); }}

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Scary dependency

@Componentpublic class ScaryDependency { private static final Logger LOGGER = LoggerFactory.getLogger(ScaryDependency.class); public String getScaryString() { LOGGER.info("Scary Dependency: I wonder which thread I am on! Tomcats?”); if (System.currentTimeMillis() % 2 == 0) { return "Scary String"; } else { Thread.sleep(5000) return “Slow Scary String"; } }}

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All on the tomcat thread

13:47:20.200 [http-8080-exec-1] INFO info.batey.examples.Resource - Resource later: I wonder which thread I am on!13:47:20.200 [http-8080-exec-1] INFO info.batey.examples.ScaryDependency - Scary Dependency: I wonder which thread I am on! Tomcats?

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Scary dependency@Componentpublic class ScaryDependency { private static final Logger LOGGER = LoggerFactory.getLogger(ScaryDependency.class); @HystrixCommand() public String getScaryString() { LOGGER.info("Scary Dependency: I wonder which thread I am on! Tomcats?”); if (System.currentTimeMillis() % 2 == 0) { return "Scary String"; } else { Thread.sleep(5000) return “Slow Scary String"; } }}

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What an annotation can do...

13:51:21.513 [http-8080-exec-1] INFO info.batey.examples.Resource - Resource later: I wonder which thread I am on!13:51:21.614 [hystrix-ScaryDependency-1] INFO info.batey.examples.ScaryDependency - Scary Dependency: I wonder which thread I am on! Tomcats? :P

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Async libraries are your friend

• DataStax Java Driver

- Guava ListenableFuture

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Drive this via requirements

• Reliable timeout

• Throttling

• Monitoring of failures / successes

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Timeouts take home

• You can’t use network level timeouts for SLAs

• Test your SLAs - if someone says you can’t, hit them with a stick

• Scary things happen without network issues

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Fault tolerance1.Don’t take forever - Timeouts2.Don’t try if you can’t succeed 3.Don’t whack a dead horse4.Turn broken stuff off

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2 - Don’t try if you can’t succeed

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Complexity

“When an application grows in complexity it will eventually start sending emails”

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Complexity

“When an application grows in complexity it will eventually start using queues and thread pools”

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Don’t try if you can’t succeed

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Don’t try if you can’t succeed

• Executor Unbounded queues :(

- newFixedThreadPool

- newSingleThreadExecutor

- newThreadCachedThreadPool

• Bound your queues and threads

• Fail quickly when the queue / maxPoolSize is met

• Know your drivers

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This is a functional requirement

• Set the timeout very high

• Use Wiremock to add a large delay to the requests

• Set queue size and thread pool size to 1

• Send in 2 requests to use the thread and fill the queue

• What happens on the 3rd request?

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Fault tolerance1.Don’t take forever - Timeouts2.Don’t try if you can’t succeed 3.Don’t whack a dead horse4.Turn broken stuff off

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5 - Don’t whack a dead horse

Movie Player

User Service

Device Service

Pin Service

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What to do…

• Yes this will happen…

• Mandatory dependency - fail *really* fast

• Throttling

• Fallbacks

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Circuit breaker pattern

(Picture from Akka docs)

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Fault tolerance1.Don’t take forever - Timeouts2.Don’t try if you can’t succeed 3.Don’t whack a dead horse4.Turn broken stuff off

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6 - Turn off broken stuff

• The kill switch

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To recap

1.Don’t take forever - Timeouts2.Don’t try if you can’t succeed 3.Don’t whack a dead horse4.Turn broken stuff off

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Links

• Examples:

- https://github.com/chbatey/spring-cloud-example

- https://github.com/chbatey/dropwizard-hystrix

- https://github.com/chbatey/vagrant-wiremock-saboteur

• Tech:

- https://github.com/Netflix/Hystrix

- https://www.vagrantup.com/

- http://wiremock.org/

- https://github.com/tomakehurst/saboteur

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Questions?

Thanks for listening!Questions later? @chbateychristopher.batey@gmail.comhttp://christopher-batey.blogspot.co.uk/