Shriram Rajagopalan, Hani Jamjoom, Tamar Eilam and Priya Nagpurkar
USENIX Annutal Technical Conference (Practitioner Talk)
Denver, Co, June 2016
Abstract. Web applications are being increasingly architected using
the microservice architecture, wherein monolithic
applications are decomposed into a set of web
services (microservices) with well defined APIs. The
constant code churn and diversity of language
runtimes found in a single application poses
significant challenges to enterprises in terms of
orchestrating interactions across a chain of
services of different versions, testing their
resiliency and managing their performance. In this
talk, we describe IBM's efforts to simplify the
development of microservice-based applications
running on the IBM Bluemix Container Cloud
environment. The core of our solution is a
programmable data plane in which the microservices
of an application are embedded. The routing elements
in the data plane consist of programmable Layer-7
middleboxes, called Service Proxies. In addition to
routing requests between microservices, a service
proxy exposes interfaces to the control plane to
program the routing of requests across a chain of
microservices and the action it takes at each
hop. As use cases, we present two control plane
applications written on top of the data plane API:
Active Deploy, for canary release and Gremlin, for
controlled failure testing.
Bibtex.
@inproceedings{jamjoom-microservices-usenix-2016,
author = {Shriram and Rajagopalan and Hani and Jamjoom and Tamar and Eilam and Priya and Nagpurkar},
title = {{Opportunities and Challenges in Adopting Microservice Architectures for Enterprise Workloads}},
booktitle = {USENIX Annutal Technical Conference (Practitioner Talk)},
address = {Denver, Co},
month = {June},
year = {2016}
}