dynamic apis: soa done right

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Dynamic APIs: SOA Done Right

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A very basic Service-Oriented Architecture


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Analyst: Robin Bloor

Robin Bloor is Chief Analyst at The Bloor Group

[email protected] @robinbloor


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EnterpriseWeb

! EnterpriseWeb is an Intelligent Operations Platform that models, runs and manages composite applications

!   The platform provides unified access to data and code, a web-based modeling environment and a dynamic application layer

! EnterpriseWeb also offers a storage capability that includes graph-based visualizations


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Guest: Jason Bloomberg

Jason Bloomberg is Chief Evangelist at EnterpriseWeb, where he drives the message and the community for EnterpriseWeb’s next generation enterprise platform. He is a global thought leader in the areas of Cloud Computing, Enterprise Architecture, and Service-Oriented Architecture. He is a frequent conference speaker and prolific writer, and he also serves as blogger for DevX. His latest book, The Agile Architecture Revolution: How Cloud Computing, REST-based SOA, and Mobile Computing are Changing Enterprise IT, was published in March 2013. He has a diverse background in eBusiness technology management and industry analysis, including serving as a senior analyst in IDC’s eBusiness Advisory group, as well as holding eBusiness management positions at USWeb/CKS (later marchFIRST) and WaveBend Solutions (now Hitachi Consulting).

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Dynamic APIs: SOA Done Right

Jason Bloomberg Chief Evangelist EnterpriseWeb

Who Doesn’t Want to be Agile?

•  EnterpriseWeb provides dynamically configurable behavior based upon business context in real Qme – OpQmize User Experience –  Improve Service Delivery – Strengthen Compliance – Automate IT Governance

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SOA – What??

•  SOA widely deployed with varying degrees of success

•  Evolved to accommodate RESTful APIs for simpler integraQon

•  We s"ll don’t have agility


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Barriers to Agility

•  Services are StaQc APIs –  Can’t be dynamically configured by data

–  Interface changes breaks dependent apps & processes

–  Versioning requires republishing & reintegraQng

•  UDDI registry standard failed miserably –  No automated discovery –  No semanQcs –  Can’t update or replace latest or most relevant Services


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The Arc of Agility

The progressive uncoupling of applicaQon architecture


Tight Coupling

Dynamic Coupling

Object Orienta4on

Loose Coupling

Resource Orienta4on

Service Orienta4on

Early Binding Late Binding Extreme Late Binding

Dynamic APIs Agent Orienta<on

EnterpriseWeb Delivers the Promise of Agility

•  APIs can be dynamically configured, updated, & replaced

•  Apps & processes can deliver personalized & adapQve user experiences

•  Non-‐disrupQve excepQon & change management


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Working with Dynamic Contracts


•  Abstract model of interface •  Resolves to required metadata at run Qme •  Move from loose coupling to dynamic coupling •  Project dynamic contracts from metadata by wriQng different transformaQons

Tightly Coupled API

Web Service Contract (WSDL)

Dynamic Contract

RESTful API

Dynamic Coupling & Extreme Late Binding

•  All metadata (including contracts) bound in real Qme – Across the organizaQon – Regardless of diverse needs – Regardless of change


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Virtual InformaQon Repository

•  Unified Resource Pool •  Central Registry/Repository for Search, NavigaQon, Modeling and Processing


Simple resources

Complex resources

Cloudlets™ (app building blocks)

Add an Intelligent Agent

•  SmartAlex™ dynamically constructs services to deliver diverse workloads

•  Fetch and transform code, data, & policies in real Qme

•  Automates interoperability


External Services, Systems, Databases and Devices accessed via RESTful APIs; SOAP/WSDL; etc.

C o m m o n M e t a d a t a L a y e r

S e m a n Q c L a y e r

Agent Handles ConnecQons & TransformaQons

Data Logic UI


The Power of EnterpriseWeb

•  Dynamic APIs resolve inflexibility of Services & RESTful APIs

•  Real Qme resoluQon of metadata, data, & code

•  Fully automated interoperability •  SmartAlex™ drives performance and real-‐Qme, dynamic behavior


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Jason Bloomberg Chief Evangelist, EnterpriseWeb [email protected] @theebizwizard

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Perceptions & Questions

Analyst: Robin Bloor

Does It Work?

Robin Bloor, Ph.D.

Software Architecture

1. The effective deployment of software and data across distributed resources to deliver the required service

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The Data Problem

If you centralize application logic, then you MUST

move the data to the processing

The world has become data

heavy, and this is becoming less

and less feasible

Hence we have to move the processing to the data – which

means we have to DISTRIBUTE it

Concerns: Separation and Distribution

Agility & the War Against Complexity

u More users u More hardware

platforms and devices u More OSes u More applications u More data sources and

more data u Changes in technology

at every level u Higher service levels u Real-time

Complexity

Aspects of Agility

Additive technology

Iterative development Near codeless

Minimal physical coding

Full life-cycle All

application types

All environments

Links to all IT assets

Fully distributable

The Distribution Issue

LOGICAL

We wish to define rules and

reusable processes just

once (centrally)

PHYSICAL

We wish to execute these

locally, if possible, when

we need to

u  We currently see a great deal of specialized software built mainly for performance (streams engines, scale-out DBMS, high-performance ETL, etc.). How does EnterpriseWeb stack up? What are the performance issues?

u  Can it distribute to the cloud? How does it integrate with cloud applications?

u  How does it recover from failures?

u  EnterpriseWeb is designed to build on existing capabilities (resources). Would it make sense as a platform for wholly new applications where existing resources were few or non-existent?

u  What do you perceive as the challenges with traditional and REST-based SOA? What gaps does EnterpriseWeb fill?

u  What is the full area of application for EnterpriseWeb? What would you not use if for? Has EnterpriseWeb been tested at scale? What is the largest application built using it - in terms of, say, integrated resources?

u  Which products do you view as competitive?


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