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Randall Degges
September 25, 2014
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Learning to Love SOA
A story about programming big things.
Randall Degges
September 25, 2014
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Transcript
A story about programming big things. Learning to Love SOA
@rdegges @gostormpath
I’m Randall Degges Developer Evangelist at Stormpath Python / Node
/ Go Hacker
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CNAM? Incoming Call: 818-217-9229 DEGGES,RANDALL
The Plan OpenCNAM DEGGES,RANDALL 818-217-9229
Mike: So… Wanna build it? Me: Sure… Why not?
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Monolithic Architecture A single codebase that is responsible for handling
all site functionality.
Service Oriented Architecture Many codebases that each do one thing
and one thing only.
opencnam Github Repos • Public facing website. • Developer API.
• Developer documentation. • Billing logic. • Email stuff. • Telephony interconnect. Monolithic App
Load Balancer Web Server Web Server Postgres Request
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Problems :(
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opencnam-www Rendering templates. Sending POST requests to my backend. Decoupling
the Front End
Load Balancer Web Server Postgres Request opencnam Load Balancer Web
Server Request opencnam-www
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Web Server Postgres
opencnam-auth • Create users. • Edit users. • Delete users.
Decoupling the Users
Backend Request opencnam Backend Request opencnam-www Backend Request opencnam-auth
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opencnam-api • Telephony logic. • API logs. • API cache.
Decoupling the API
Backend Request opencnam-api Backend Request opencnam-www Backend Request opencnam-auth
opencnam-billing opencnam-www opencnam-auth opencnam-api OpenCNAM Services opencnam-logs opencnam-stats
What I’ve Learned
Small codebases are easier to work with.
Small codebases are easier to scale.
Small codebases are more fun.
You can write less code.
The hardest thing about SOA is... opencnam-auth
• User account storage / encryption. • Authentication. • Authorization.
• REST API management. • Social login. End User Your Webserver Stormpath API Stormpath
You’re the best! @rdegges @gostormpath