Better Software East 2017 Concurrent Session : Leverage Streaming Data in a Microservices Ecosystem

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Wednesday, November 8, 2017 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm

Leverage Streaming Data in a Microservices Ecosystem

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Imagine a world where operational data is continuously flowing from applications and devices at an extremely high rate. Now imagine services intercepting this data and analyzing it real time. Sounds futuristic? It's not—it's here today. Mark Richards describes what streaming architecture is all about—what it is, when to use it, and how to implement it in a microservices ecosystem. Mark describes the overall ecosystem for streaming architecture—including a brief discussion about the differences in Apache Spark, Flink, and Hadoop—and then explains how Apache Kafka works. Using live coding examples in Kafka, Mark demonstrates some techniques for leveraging streaming data such as metrics gathering for monitoring, distributed logging, request distribution analysis, and threshold analysis in a microservices ecosystem. Join Mark as he discusses some of the implications and limitations of Kafka and the important topic of when to choose Kafka over standard messaging such as JMS, AMQP, and MSMQ.

Mark Richards
Independent Consultant

In the software industry since 1983, Mark Richards is an experienced, hands-on software architect involved in the architecture, design, and implementation of microservices architectures, service-oriented architectures, and distributed systems. He has significant experience and expertise in application, integration, and enterprise architecture. Mark is the author of O’Reilly books on microservices; the Software Architecture Fundamentals video series; Enterprise Messaging video series; Java Message Service, 2nd Edition; and a contributing author to 97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know. Mark is a frequent speaker on enterprise-related technical topics at conferences and user groups worldwide. www.wmrichards.com