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Oliver Drotbohm
October 13, 2016
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Whoops! Where did my architecture go?
Slides of the talk I gave at GOTO London, 2016.
Oliver Drotbohm
October 13, 2016
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Transcript
Whoops! Where did my architecture go? In between a monolith
and a system of systems mess… / @olivergierke
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Background Consulting & engineering @ Pivotal Lots of code reviews
Eoin Woods‘ talk on InfoQ
Roadmap Divide and conquer Of layers and slices The modular
monolith
Divide and conquer
Component Single unit to understand
Component Single unit to change
Component Scope of risk of change
B Smaller unit to understand A
B Reduced risk of change A
B Cost of separation A
B Definition and maintenance of dependencies A
Of layers and slices…
Presentation Service Data Access Billing Inventory Order
Layers Well understood Known to developers Less important to business
Slices Hardly understood New to developers Key for business requirements
Presentation Service Data Access Billing Inventory Order
Monolith VS. System of Systems
Monolith VS. System of Systems Order Inventory Billing Order Inventory
Billing
In-process calls VS. Inter-process calls Order Inventory Billing Order Inventory
Billing
Performance? Overhead? Error scenarios? Order Inventory Billing Order Inventory Billing
" If you can’t build a modular monolith, why do
you think microservices are the answer? — Simon Brown
How to manage modularity in different architectural contexts?
Means to enforce context boundaries? Order Inventory Billing Order Inventory
Billing
The modular monolith
How to implement a modular monolith?
How to maintain a modular monolith?
Bounded Context all the things! Domain-Driven Design is a great
idea! Surprise! In a monolith, too!
Architecturally- evident code
Code analysis jDepend Sonarcube Structure 101 / Sonargraph jQAssistant
A plain Java based approach
How to write code that’s less likely to deteoriate?
Presentation Service Data Access Billing Inventory Orders
Packages
….layer.slice ….slice.layer ….slice
….web.core ….service.core ….repository.core
….core.web ….core.service ….core.repository
….core ….customer ….account
Does it make a difference?
Dependency management
Orders Inventory Billing Orders Inventory Billing
A rule violation is just an @Inject away! Orders Inventory
Billing
You only need to manage what you can refer to…
Layers first Leaks slice internals Lower layers visible to everyone
Needs to be public :( Allows other code to circumvent
business logic
Slices only Keeps technical division private Encapsulates business module Internals
understood anyway
All package protected Compiler induced dependency control
Presentation Service Data Access Billing Inventory Order
Presentation Service Data Access Billing Inventory Order
Resources Blogpost Sonargraph jQAssistant Spring Data JPA @ GitHub
Sample Code http://github.com/olivergierke/ whoops-architecture
Thanks & Credits Eoin Woods — Talk @ InfoQ Stefan
Tilkov — Talk @ InfoQ