The document discusses transitioning from a monolithic architecture to microservices and containers. It describes how Moka transformed its architecture using AWS services like ECS, Fargate, and Step Functions. This allowed Moka to scale its business 600% in a year while improving latency, innovation, and developer productivity through a more flexible architecture. The document also provides recommendations around configurations, CI/CD pipelines, and coordinating microservices.

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Microservices & Containers for Startups
Donnie Prakoso
ASEAN Technical Evangelist, Amazon Web Services
Achmad Nazmy
GM of Technology, MOKA

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What We Are Going to Discuss
• Let’s Build an App
• On Development: Monolithic vs Microservices
• On Operations: Being more productive
• Containers for Microservices: AWS Fargate
• Services to help you build microservices
• Next Steps

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Let’s Build an App!

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Presentation Tier Logic Tier Data Tier
Mobile App App Server Database

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Here is what that translates to in real life
http://media.amazonwebservices.com/architecturecenter/AWS_ac_ra_web_01.pdf

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What Is Microservices?
An approach to developing a single application as a suite of
small services, each running in its own process and
communicating with lightweight mechanisms, often an HTTP
resource API
- Martin Fowler & James Lewis
https://martinfowler.com

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Monolithic vs. Microservices
webserver
.package
Order UI
Order service
Inventory
service
Shipping
service

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Monolithic vs. Microservices
Order UI(1)
Order
service(1)
Inventory
service(1)
Shipping
service(1)
Order UI(n)
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service(n)
Inventory
service(n)
Shipping
service(n)

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Tenets of Microservices Architectures
Do one
thing wellIndependent
Decentralized
Black box
Polyglot
You build it, you run it

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Achmad Nazmy
General Manager of Technology
Achmad Nazmy is the General Manager Technology at Moka Technologies,
he oversees and building the company's engineering team and making
architecture and infrastructure decisions. He brings more than a decade of
experience in designing and developing enterprise and highly scalable
systems. He transformed Moka architecture from monolithic to microsevices
that enable engineers to work in higher velocity and deliver more scalable
system.

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Moka is a leading cloud based Point of
sales system that help businesses run their
business easily with data that can be
accessed anytime and anywhere.
Moka takes away the pain of running a
business so businesses can focus on what’s
really important: serving your customers
and growing businesses.
POINT OF SALE

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AVAILABLE IN 200 AREAS, 36 CITIES ACROSS INDONESIA
More than 12,000 Merchants
With 3 Major business types:
55% Food & Beverage
30% Services
15% Retail

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Speed and Responsiveness is the Key

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Manual Receipt Calculator Cash Register Conventional POS
5
minutes
3
minutes
2
minutes
Cause “time, speed and quality” really make differences for
customers
1
minute
Cloud POS
10
seconds

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Monolith to Microservices
Journey
of

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Monolith Architecture
AWS Elastic Load
Balancer
EC2 Instances
AWS Elastic Bean Stalk
AWS RDS
Auto Scaling

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Monolithic – Our Problems
Users and
Transactions
Growth
Large Codebase
Multiple Type of
Businesses
Technology
Locking
Scaling up and
Maintenance
Difficulty
Multiple Features &
Fast Release Cycle
Intimidated
Developer, Error
prone, deployment
challenge
Innovation &
Flexibility
Limitation
Horizontal Team
Too many
negotiation.
Slow down.

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Transformation to Microservices
AWS RDS
API Gateway
AWS Kinesis AWS RDS
Monolith
Services
Services
AWS RDS
AWS Lambda
AWS RDS
AWS RDS
AWS Lambda

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App MarketplacePoint of Sale
Dashboard & Report
Sync Bill & Split Bill
Ingredient & Inventory
Loyalty Program
Table Management
Employee Management
And many more!
Capital Payment

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Our Growth – Results of Using AWS
600% Businesses growth in a
year
Max. total requests/
minute
163k
Average latency29ms
New Innovations19++

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Containerize & Orchestrating Container (Future)
API Gateway AWS RDSElastic Container
Service
EC2 Instance
AWS
Fargate

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Benefits of Microservices Architecture
Agility
Flexible
scaling
Easy
deployment
Technology
freedom
Reusable code Resilience

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Microservice
• Code
• Runtime
• Dependencies
• Configurations

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Containers Are a Perfect Fit!
Any app, any language
Image is the version
Test and deploy same artifact
Stateless servers decrease change risk
Self-contained services
CONTAINER ENGINE Simple to model services
CI/CD Pipelines

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Let’s talk about operations

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Moving to production is harder…
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Amazon Elastic Container Service
Highly scalable, high-performance container orchestration service that
supports Docker containers and allows you to easily run and scale
containerized applications on AWS

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PRODUCTION WORKLOADS ON AWS
AWS VPC
networking mode
Advanced task
placement
Deep integration
with AWS platform
ECS CLI…{ }
Global footprint
Powerful scheduling
engines
Auto scaling
CloudWatch metrics
Load balancers
Linux & Windows

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Amazon ECS Customers

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Many microservices
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More Containers, More Operations?

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More Containers, More Operations

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Make tasks
(containers) a
fundamental
compute
primitive

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ENABLE FOCUS ON APPLICATIONS

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AWS Fargate
Run containers without managing servers or clusters

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Scheduling and Orchestration
Cluster Manager Placement Engine
ECS
AMI
Docker
agent
ECS
agent
EC2 Instance
ECS
AMI
Docker
agent
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agent
EC2 Instance
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AMI
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agent
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agent
EC2 Instance

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How should we manage configuration variables?
1

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Handling App Config & Secrets
•prod.app1.db-pass
•prod.app2.user-
name
Centralized
Configurations
Microservice Microservice Microservice Microservice Microservice
Parameter StoreAWS Secrets Manager
staging/mysql/db
prod/app1/key

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When and how we should implement CI/CD
pipelines?
2

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CI/CD: Delivering to Your Customers
Commit
Your
Code
Code
AWS
AWS Code
Pipeline
Other AWS
services
AWS Fargate
Users
AWS Code Build

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How to coordinate microservices?
3

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AWS Step Functions
Easily coordinate multiple services using visual workflows
Visualize in
the console
Define in JSON Monitor
executions

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Microservices Coordination - AWS Step Functions
Amazon S3 AWS
Lambda
AWS Step
Functions
AWS Fargate AWS
Lambda
AWS IoT

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Focus on building business logic.

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Let’s Get You Started
https://aws.amazon.com/microservices/
• About Microservices
• AWS services to help you build
microservices
• Whitepapers & workshops

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What you <code> today, you’re
building tomorrow.

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Go Build!
Donnie Prakoso
AWS Technology Evangelist, ASEAN
@donnieprakoso

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