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Chuck Norris Doesn’t Need DevOps…but Java Developers might benefit
Daniel BryantCTO, Instant Access Technologies
d.bryant@iatltd.com@taidevcouk
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epoints.com 2012/13 Upgrade…
• Increasing traffic – Scalability being stretched
• Increasingly diverse requirements
• Our starting point– Developers creating monolithic application– Manual QA– Operations deploying to data center
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Core Changes…
• Service-Oriented Architecture
• Cloud-based deployments
• DevOps Culture
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Core Changes…
• Service-Oriented Architecture– Twitter’s Story (bit.ly/1j1WbmI)
• Cloud-based deployments– “Cloud DHARMA”, 7th May at Skillsmatter
• DevOps Culture– Today!
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What is DevOps?
• “…a software development method that stresses communication, collaboration and integration between developers and IT professionals.”
• “…aims to help an organization rapidly produce software products and services”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DevOps
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What’s in a Name?
• “Development / Operations”
• Increasing cohesion between:– Business– Development– Quality Assurance– Operations
“Bu-Dev-Qa-Ops”?
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yeah…‘DevOps’ sounds way cooler…
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Two Sides of the Same ‘DevOps’ Coin…
• Business-driven– ‘Creating organizational alignment’– Value stream mapping– Waste analysis
• Pragmatic Tech– Pushing Agile/XP into QA and Ops– Cross-functional empowerment– Tooling
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So, What’s Chuck Norris Doing Here?
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Chuck Norris doesn’t need DevOps……as a one-man army he codes with one hand, tests with the other and deploys with his beard
The rest of us……work in teams to develop software
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Software Development Teams
• Developers
• Quality Assurance
• Operations
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Software Development Teams
• Developers
• Quality Assurance
• Operations
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Software Development Teams
• Developers
• Quality Assurance
• Operations
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Software Development Teams
• Developers
• Quality Assurance
• Operations
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This silo mentality has to stop
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Culture is Vital
• Culture drives behaviour, drives culture…– “Communication, simplicity, feedback, courage” – Everyone is responsible for delivery– Continuous experimentation and learning
• Not easy to change culture– The hardest part of DevOps…– …but you will learn new things
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Changing Culture
• Greenfield– Flickr’s story (slidesha.re/sHpYV)– “Why other people don’t get it”
• Sandro Mancuso (slidesha.re/1bcStpe)
• Enterprise– “The Pheonix Project”
• Gene Kim et al
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Changing Culture
• Create an effective team…
• “Habits of highly effective technical teams” – Martijn Verburg (bit.ly/1aF9SnK)
• “Patterns of Effective Teams”– Dan North (vimeo.com/68226771)
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Chuck Norris doesn’t do iterative development……all applications Chuck Norris creates are right first time, every time
The rest of us……need to enable agility (for both the business and technical teams)
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We all do Continuous Integration, right?
• Continuous Deployment/Delivery– Jez Humble and Dave Farley– Great InfoQ Video (bit.ly/XugWi8)
• Create a “build pipeline”– Goal is fast feedback
• Continuous Deployment– Production?
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Our Build Pipeline
Jenkins, with plugins…
• Build Pipeline– wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Build+Pipeline+Plugin
• Parameterized build– wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Parameterized+Build
• Promoted Builds Plugin– wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Promoted+Builds+Plugin
• Chuck Norris plugin… – wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/ChuckNorris+Plugin
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Our Build Pipeline
• Component Build– Compile– Unit Tests (surefire)– Integration Tests (failsafe)
• Deployment onto QA Cloud– Python Scripts + Chef to provision– Verify success using Python
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Our Build Pipeline
• Acceptance Tests– Cucumber and Selenium– Work in progress…
• Performance Tests– Jmeter– Jenkins Jmeter performance plugin
• Staging / Live Deployment– Human-based conditional operation
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Gotchas
• Managing dependencies in SOA is hard, very hard
• Branching– Gitflow, Branch Per Feature, or Mainline
• Migrating data can be challenging– Liquibase / Flyway– MongoDB / Solr Schema versions in data– Wooga case study (bit.ly/1egArDC)– Shout out to Daniel Josefsson @ Shazam for tips!
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Chuck Norris doesn’t do QA……Chuck Norris can test an entire application with a single assert (and get 110% code coverage)
The rest of us……need high-quality automated QA
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Automating QA
• Unit testing is essential
• Intra-component integration testing– Spock is awesome (code.google.com/p/spock)
– Utilise embedded datastore/middleware
• Inter-component integration testing– The hardest part of SOA…
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Automating QA
• Consumer-based Testing– Brandon Byars (bit.ly/1lmcoaD)
• Performance– JMeter + plugins (jmeter-plugins.org)– BlazeMeter
• Website– Selenium (www.seleniumhq.org)– Geb (www.gebish.org)
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Automating QA
• Make it easy for everyone to execute
• Include within the build pipeline
• Make people care – fail the build!
• “Agile Testing” by Lisa Crispin, Janet Gregory
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Chuck Norris doesn’t need an OS……his keyboard has two keys, 0 and 1
The rest of us……need to provision bare metal, and also be comfortable with the OS
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Say No To Snowflakes!
• Infrastructure as Code– Version control everything
• Automate all provisioning– Chef, Puppet, SaltStack, Python, AWS CLI
• Play with Vagrant (www.vagrantup.com)– “providers” are super cool
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Thinking/Acting Like A Sysadmin
• Learn Linux fundamentals
• Diagnostic skills– top, iotop, iostat, netstat, vmstat– Java utils: jps, jstat, jmap, jhat– “DevOps Troubleshooting” by K. Rankin
• Maybe grow a beard…
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Chuck Norris doesn’t fail……he just finds a new way in which reality is broken
The rest of us……should plan for failure
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Failure
“Everything fails all the time [in the cloud]”Werner Vogels, CTO, Amazon.com
• 21st Century Application Architecture– www.skillsmatter.com (bit.ly/10jAdSV)
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Black Swan Theory
“…is a metaphor that describes an event that comes as a surprise, has a major effect, and is often inappropriately rationalized after the fact with the benefit of hindsight”
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swanhttp://amzn.to/1gaIqxz
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Failure
Pre-Cloud we designed for success…and handled failure.
With Cloud we design for failure… and handle success.
Credit to John Bassil for inspiration here! (@johnbassil)
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Design for Failure
• Design patterns– Asynchronous communication– Timeouts / retries– Bulkheads / circuit-breakers
• Inspiration– Chris Richardson (slidesha.re/1ft3vsg)– Netflix (bit.ly/1h5GMid)
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Antifragile
• The opposite of fragile?– Robust…– Antifragile…
• Netflix are best-in-class– bit.ly/1gs5n3q
• System must be robust first!
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All arrays Chuck Norris creates are of infinite size……as Chuck Norris knows no bounds
The rest of us……should manage our resources and cultivate ‘mechanical sympathy’
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Mechanical Sympathy
• Be aware of deployment platform properties
• …especially if in the cloud– Block Storage IOPS (100 vs 49k)– 1Gbps Network ( < 125MB/s vs > 400MB/s)– “Noisy neighbours”
• Monitor everything (more on this later)
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When Chuck Norris throws Exceptions……everybody knows about it because they land outside of the data center
The rest of us……should log all errors (and other vital information for diagnostic purposes)
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Logging
• Log pretty much everything– Use appropriate levels
• Make comments searchable/machine readable– Good tips (bit.ly/hweqm4)
• Use centralised logging – Especially if in the cloud– Logstash, Loggly, Papertrail
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Chuck Norris doesn’t worry about application downtime……Chuck Norris’ production servers are so scared they constantly ping him
The rest of us……should monitor everything
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Monitor All The Things!
• Infrastructure monitoring– Nagios– Zabbix– Splunk– AppDynamics
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Metrics
• Dropwizard’s Metrics– metrics.codahale.com
• Netflix’s Servo– github.com/Netflix/servo
• Etsy’s StatsD– github.com/etsy/statsd/wiki
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Health Checks
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Gauges, Counters, Meters, Timers…
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Inspirational Metrics Companies
• Several trail-blazers– Etsy (www.codeascraft.com)– Netflix (techblog.netflix.com)
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In Summary…
• DevOps is driving Agile/XP into QA and Ops
• Faster, leaner and more effective software– The ability to rapidly experiment is awesome!
• There are some real benefits behind the buzz
• Now is the time to step-up as a developer
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The Developer’s DevOps Action Plan
• Think about your company culture• Explore continuous delivery• Learn Linux basics• Automate provisioning• Design for failure• Cultivate mechanical sympathy• Improve logging/metrics
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Thanks For Listening
• Massive thanks to all the IAT team– DevOps gurus, Jamie Clarkson and Anjani Phuyal
• Questions / comments?– d.bryant@iatltd.com– @taidevcouk
• Devoxx UK 12-13th June– www.devoxx.co.uk