Ultra-scale e-Commerce Transaction Services with Lean Middleware

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Paul FremantlePaul Fremantle

CTO and CoCTO and Co--FounderFounder

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Contents

• Challenges at extreme scale deployment

• A case study – online retailer

• What is lean software?

• What are the challenges in Cloud?

• Why is Platform-as-a-Service important

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Case Study: Problem Definition

• Millions of power sellers connecting directly to APIs

• Accessing APIs via slow and fast connections

• Load balancing to an ultra-scale backend cluster

• ~1bn large message transactions/day

Enterprises with these challenges

The challenges of ultra-scale integration

• Absolute rigor for service/API definitions

• Peaks and troughs in load

– In this case “Cyber Monday”

• Slow clients, large messages

• Patch and system management

• Monitoring

– Monitor latency, memory, CPU, message size (by “bucket”

• All at 5 mins, 15 mins, 1 hr, 24 hrs

– Alerting when the “queue” depth increases

Deployment Architecture

Outcomes of this architecture

• Initial test production Q4/2009, ramp up during 2010

• Ramped up incrementally to 600m transactions/day

• On 36 JVM instances

• Expected to grow to 1bn/day during 1H2011

• Significantly more robust

• Handling around Other groups now using the ESB

• 80+ instances throughout the organization

• Looking add Governance Registry during 2011

• Better reliability, better scalability, lower TCO

Lean

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Lean and Open Source• Lean

– Triumph of the Lean Production System, John Krafcik, 1988, Sloan Management Review

• What is “Lean Software”

– Designed to do just enough

• No muda

• Only focus on real requirements – not feature checklists

– Agile Development and Minimum Viable Product

• Decide as late as possible, Code as fast as possible

– Modular so that unnecessary code isn’t even loaded

– No duplicate code (unfortunately a typical result of M&A)

• Open Development model complements Lean strongly:

– Shared requirements, testing and architecture decisions

– Iterative Agile development model based on milestones and continuous build

Why Lean and Open Source for our e-tailer?

• Lean– Simpler cleaner configuration:

• Easier to configure, easier to fix

• Highly effective solution

– Lower hardware costs for the same workload

– Less money spent on consultants:• 80 instances in production in a year with

approximately 1/3 person year onsite support

• Open Source– Not the only factor in purchasing:

• Test production “shoot-out” between Open Source and Proprietary

– Better insight, better partnership, community

Enterprise Architecture

Modularity enables Lean

Taking Lean Open Source into the Clouds

• Security

• Resource sharing inside an organization

– Central Limit Theorem and Private Cloud

• Agility

• Shared Nothing for Data, Cache and

Processing

– Designing systems so they scale effortlessly

• More than just Infrastructure-as-a-Service

– Getting the right shared services

Cloud Challenges

Moore’s Law for Data

• Online data went from

– 5 exabytes in 2002 to

– 281 exabytes in 2009

That is doubling every 15 months

• The only way to deal with this expansion is to create new applications

– Its not just the volume, but new types of data

– Need the “Industrial Revolution” for Software Development

Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)

• PaaS is about making it

simpler, faster and more repeatable

to develop, deploy and manage applications

– Shared Multi-tenant Services

– Such as Identity, Application Server, Queues, Logs,

Metering, Configuration Repository and Registry

– Allows developers to focus on the logic and design

– Commonality at a higher level creates efficiencies

(shared memory, better load distribution)

Enterprise IT in 2015+

• Lean

– All the same benefits are magnified in a cloud

– Efficiency that is valuable in fixed deployments is invaluable in large dynamic deployments!

• Available on private, public, on-premise

– Getting locked into a specific public PaaS will have long term repercussions

– Open Source is a huge protection against this

• The correct set of core “services”

– Not just App Server, but Identity, Registry, Data, Cache, ESB, BPMS, Billing, Logging, etc

• Open Standard interfaces to common services

– Enables modular usage

• Self-service, multi-tenancy, elasticity, metering, incremental deployment and testing

What to look for in a PaaS

Stratos – Carbon as a PaaS• A full middleware platform available as-a-service

• Based on OSGi

• Self-service, Multi-tenant, Elastic, Metered and Billed

• Completely Open Source under the Apache License

– Available in the cloud, on-premise and private cloud

• Isolates applications from the Infrastructure

– Currently supports vSphere, Eucalyptus, Ubuntu, Amazon

• Provides

– Application Server, ESB, Governance Registry, Business Process Management Server, Business Activity Monitoring, Rules, Data Services

http://wso2.org/downloads/stratos

Carbon/Stratos and Enterprise Architecture

What can a PaaS do for you?

• Integrate multiple internal and cloud data sources and present via JSON to a Mobile Client

• Provide all the building blocks to build SaaS applications

• Give developers in your organization the perfect balance of control and freedom to innovate

• Automate governance

A good PaaS is a platform for innovation

About WSO2WSO2 is a fast-growing software company operating globally offering:

• A comprehensive on-premises platform - WSO2 Carbon

• A unique cloud platform - WSO2 Stratos

WSO2 has next generation vision and technology

• Called out as a visionary in the SOA market

• WSO2 Cloud and On-Premise platforms have a completely unified architecture allowing WSO2 to scale up both aspects of the business in parallel

In 5 years WSO2 has grown:

• More than 115 employees and more than 75 customers

• Doubled revenue and bookings every year

• The Open Source business model WSO2 implements creates strong customer pull, high customer satisfaction, and a total of more than 1 million product downloads

Company website: http://wso2.com

Developer Site and Open Source Forge: http://wso2.org

Thank You

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