Driving Enterprise Architecture Redesign: Cloud-Native Platforms, APIs, and DevOps

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Architecture Refresh Drivers

• The Breakup of the Corporation• Connected Business• The Now Generation• The Long Tail• The New Web

The Breakup of the Corporation

http://media.johnwiley.com.au/product_data/excerpt/67/04712507/0471250767.pdf

The Now Generation

• Time to create project workspace

• Time to build, integrate, test

• Time to approve, promote

• Time to deploy, release• Dwell time – time waiting for the

next operation to commence or complete

http://blog.cobia.net/cobiacomm/2013/03/19/accelerating-business-agility-with-app-factory-devops-paas/

The Long Tail

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Web 1.0 Presentation• Web sites• Brochure-ware• E-mail

• Mass marketing• Static information delivery

Web 2.0 Transactional• E-Commerce• Social networks• Software as a Service

• Search• Recommendations and

status

Web 3.0 Community• Massive Data-driven• Mobile

• Ad hoc groups• Self-Selection and Social• Ecosystems• Contextual and

Personalized

The Web Evolves – New Paradigm Social Community, Context, and Ecosystems

New IT Architecture YieldsUser-led Innovation

New agile, multi-purpose architecture components

http://edcforums.com/threads/the-atwood-collectors-thread-part-2.101226/page-5

Dev Ops Tooling Automated Governance

Service Level Management

Consumption based Funding

Problem Statement: How do we reduce Wait States and

enable Responsive Iterations?

Cloud-Native Platform Architecture

http://blog.cobia.net/cobiacomm/2013/04/18/cloud-native-paas-architecture/

Cloud Native Difference

http://wso2.com/whitepapers/cloud-native-advantage-multi-tenant-shared-container-paas

Complete, Cloud-Native PaaS ServicesApplication, Integration, Analytics, Identity, Data

Who believes in Cloud-Native Advantage?

• Service Providers who love money – A major network device manufacturer offering

value-added network control services– A telecommunications software provider

(OSS/BSS)– A gaming company – A major bank delivering a shared deployment

environment

Problem Statement:How do we

Efficiently Collaborate and Streamline Processes?Execute according to DevOps Principles• Iterative• Incremental• Continuous• Automated• Self-service• Collaborative• Holistic

Implement DevOps Processes

• Infrastructure as Code– Self-service configuration– Automated provisioning – Automated release management

• Continuous delivery– Continuous build– Continuous integration– Continuous deployment

• Incremental testing

DevOps PaaS Differentiation

• Self service project and policy configuration– Via project configuration portals– Security, service levels, frameworks, usage, topology

• Automated platform provisioning– Via service tier templates– Framework and policy enforcement points (PEPs)

• Process automation– Continuous build, test, and deployment– Code promotion and synchronization across

environments and servers• Dependency analysis and impact analysis

Effective Governance Streamlines Processes

• Ensuring people do the right thing• Make doing the right thing the easy path– via automation!!

• Spans precepts, policies, people, and process Governance applies to many domains

– Design and development– Operational processes and run-time environment– Organizational resources

• Effective governance requires a big picture view of portfolio and dependencies

A Reference Architecture DevOpsboth dev and ops perspective

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Reference Architecture for DevOps PaaS

WSO2 App

Factory

App CommandGovernance and

Visibility

DevOps-Forge

Complete Cloud PaaS

Enterprise App Store

Enterprise DevOps PaaSBridging Development with Deployment

https://appfactorypreview.wso2.com/

https://appfactorypreview.wso2.com/

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How do we support Joint Ventures and the Value Web?

A Cloud-based, Digital Business Ecosystem Platform– Cost-effective, development, collaboration, and

deployment infrastructure enabling a long tail of application development• Architecture templates and application platform services

– A shared environment for cross-organization application development and delivery• Governed, iterative lifecycle management across hybrid clouds

and composite applications• IT Business performance metrics and analytics

– Infrastructure enabling user experience composition across multiple disparate application providers

Ecosystem Architecture Focus

• Monetize assets based on business value• Tenant/Consumer personalization and

isolation• Sharing domain specific business capabilities• Dynamic orchestration and composition

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Cloud Ecosystem Platform Architecture Components

WSO2 App

Factory

Your Core Business Capability

3rd Party Partners

DevOps Forge and Governance

Cloud Deployment App Store

Personalized SaaS Solution

Your Digital Business

Ecosystem

Who is building an Ecosystem Platform with WSO2?

• An aerospace company• A mobile device manufacturer• A connected car consortium• A construction software provider • A telecommunications provider

Problem Statement: How do I encourage internal and external business collaboration?

Web 1.0 Destination Site

Web 2.0 Social Network

Site Activity

Web 3.0 Web API Driving

Interaction

In the Future Today, APIs Drive Everything

Source: http://www.ericsson.com/res/docs/whitepapers/wp-50-billions.pdf

Situational Context: Traffic

{incidents: [ {impacting: false, eventCode: 0, iconURL: "http://...", lat: 38.743999, shortDesc: "Exit ramp closed on I 95...", type: 1, severity: 0, fullDesc: "In NEWINGTON exit ramp closed on I-95 ...", startTime: "2010-02-21T00:14:07", lng: -77.188004, id: "368598263", endTime: "2010-02-27T05:04:19" },

Image source: http://www.directoryofnewyorkcity.com/blog/2009/05/how-to-find-parking-in-new-york-city/Real-time traffic map: http://www.mapquestapi.com/traffic/

Web 3.0: The Contextual Web and Cloud Ecosystems Requires Personalization

Tenant / Consumer Personalization Dimensions• Information access privileges• Information aggregation and composition• Social network access privileges• Business processes and rules• Service levels and Quality of Service• Security policies• Monetization rates

Open API and Collaboration

Brands Enhance Revenue

API brands build mindshare

Mindshare increases visibility

Visibility fosters discovery and evaluation

Evaluation triggers collaboration and API

adoption

API adoption builds community

Look and Feel Influences Perception

Your API Brand Platform• Fully customizable look and feel• Multiple Storefronts for multiple communities• Multiple publisher groups• Multiple Service Level Tiers

New IT Results

Agility Attributes• Open Collaboration• Micro-iterations• User-led innovation

Measurements• Industry Ecosystems• Community and Context• Decreased time to market

New IT Performance Metrics

Foundational performance metrics focus on time to market.

Key metrics include:– Time and effort to create new application

environment– Time to redeploy application– Time to promote application into a new lifecycle

phase

New IT Performance Metrics

Optimization performance metrics focus on portfolio efficiency.

Key metrics include– Ability to dynamically right-size infrastructure and

elastic scalability– Ability to re-use existing platform services and

business services from resource pool instead of re-building solution stack

New IT Performance Metrics

Transformational performance metrics focus on productivity.

Key metrics include:– Time and effort required integrating business

process, event processor – creating a complex app.– Time and effort required to apply policy across

tenant(s)– Cost to operate application per user or transaction

measured against the value provided by the application or transaction.

WSO2: The only Open Source visionary in all 3 application infrastructure categories

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Recommended Reading• The Path to Responsive IT– http://wso2.com/whitepapers/the-path-to-responsive-it

• DevOps Meets ALM in the Cloud– http://wso2.com/whitepapers/devops-meets-alm-in-th

e-cloud-cloud-devops-paas

• Cloud-Native Advantage– http://wso2.com/whitepapers/cloud-native-advantage-

multi-tenant-shared-container-paas

• Promoting Service Re-use with API Management– http://wso2.com/whitepapers/promoting-service-reuse

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