Our Practices of Delegating Ownership in Microservices World

SREcon19 Asia/Pacific Lightning Talk #SREcon
https://www.usenix.org/conference/srecon19asia/presentation/lightning-talks

Appendix: slides for references

- Mercari Tech Conf 2018 Keynote (Suguru Namura)
- https://speakerdeck.com/mercari/mercari-tech-conf-2018-keynote-suguru-namura-4d5253ac-b6b0-453f-87da-049307e01054
- Terraform Ops for Microservices
- https://speakerdeck.com/b4b4r07/terraform-ops-for-microservices
- Kubernetes manifests management and operation in Mercari
- https://speakerdeck.com/b4b4r07/kubernetes-manifests-management-and-operation-in-mercari

Transcript

1. Our Practices of Delegating Ownership
   in Microservices World
   Daisuke Fujita (@dtan4)
   Mercari, Inc.
   Microservices Platform Team
   June 14, 2019
   SREcon19 Asia/Pacific Lightning Talk
   

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2. delegating ownership?
   At Mercari Microservices
   

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3. Monolith (-2018)
   Good at first, but not scalable
   Need to change the system &
   organization, before growing up more
   - Complexity
   - Velocity
   

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4. Scale the organization &
   Maximize output
   Microservices at Mercari
   small / autonomous /
   cross-functional teams
   strong ownership by the teams
   

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5. Ownership by Microservice Team
   ...how?
   Service teams
   write code, deploy it, run it
   by themselves
   

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6. Q: How to prepare
   microservice’s infrastructure?
   

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7. Monorepo for Terraform Configurations
   

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8. Monorepo for Terraform Configurations
   terraform/microservices
   |-- mercari-echo-jp
   | |-- development
   | `-- production
   | |-- backend.tf
   | |-- google_bigquery_dataset.tf
   | |-- google_spanner_database.tf
   | |-- module_microservice_starter_kit.tf
   | |-- providers.tf
   | `-- variables.tf
   `-- mercari-listing-jp
   |-- development
   `-- production
   

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9. Q: What are the microservices
   requirements in production?
   

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10. Production Readiness Checklist
    

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11. Production Readiness Checklist
    - Maintainability
    - Durability
    - Observability
    - Reliability
    - Security
    - Accessibility
    - Sustainability
    - Data Storage
    

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12. Production Readiness Checklist
    TODO: automated regular check
    GitHub issue-based check & review process
    

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13. Conclusion
    Ownership by microservice teams
    - Monorepo for provisioning microservice
    infrastructure
    - Production Readiness Checklist
    It contributes to organizational expansion with
    microservices
    https://careers.mercari.com
    

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