How Namely Builds Services

A talk about how Namely is building services and tackling complexity as we grow. Presented at https://www.meetup.com/New-York-Kubernetes-Meetup/

Transcript

1. How Namely Builds Services
2. About Namely • • • • ◦ ◦ ◦ ◦ • •
4. One Experience Companies Employees Teams Wages Pay Cycles Benefits More Services Reporting Event Stream ...
5. What is a Service? • • • ◦ • ◦
6. Challenges of Services • • • •
7. Service Business Logic Storage (maybe) API Metrics + Logging + APM
8. Service Business Logic Storage (maybe) API Service Business Logic Storage (maybe) API Service Business Logic Storage (maybe) API Service Business Logic Storage (maybe) API Service Business Logic Storage (maybe) API
11. Fight Institutionalized Toil • • ◦ ◦ ◦ • ◦ ◦ ◦
12. Technology We Use • • • • • • • • • • • •
13. gRPC • • • • • ◦ •
14. syntax = "proto3"; package namely.examples.people; service People { // Create a person. rpc CreatePerson(CreatePersonRequest) returns (CreatePersonResponse) {} // Search for people. rpc FindPeople(FindPeopleRequest) returns (FindPeopleResponse) {} } message Person { // The full name of the person, for example "Jane Smith". Must not be empty. string name = 1; } message CreatePersonRequest { // The person to create. Person person = 1; } message CreatePersonResponse { // A copy of the created person. Person person = 1; } // ... FindPeopleRequest/Response omitted for brevity ...
15. Service Business Logic Storage (maybe) gRPC API
16. What about HTTP? ... import "google/api/annotations.proto"; service Echo { rpc CreatePerson(CreatePersonRequest) returns (CreatePersonResponse) { option (google.api.http) = { post: "/person/create" body: "*" }; }; rpc FindPeople(FindPeopleRequest) returns (FindPeopleResponse) { option (google.api.http) = { get: "/person/{first_name}" }; }; } ...
17. Service Business Logic Storage (maybe) gRPC API HTTP → gRPC translation
18. Swagger • • • •
19. The Service Mesh • • ◦ ◦ ◦ ◦ ◦ • ◦ ◦
20. Service Business Logic Storage (maybe) HTTP → gRPC translation gRPC API Envoy Sidecar Metrics + Logging + APM
21. CI/CD
22. Local Development
24. Summary • ◦ • ◦ • ◦ ◦ • ◦ ◦ ◦ •
25. Thanks!