This presentation will demonstrate how to rapidly prototype and develop distributed, scalable applications with Apache Camel, its AWS Components and the AWS Java SDK. Robin Howlett is Senior Architect at Silver Chalice, a Chicago White Sox affiliated start-up, based in Boulder, CO, with a portfolio of high-value digital-based businesses in the fields of sports, media and entertainment. In 2011, he built the Advanced Media Platform, a proprietary cloud-based platform that services millions of requests per day across dozens of mobile application products, heavily utilizing the Apache Camel framework.

1. CLOUD DEVELOPMENT
WITH APACHE CAMEL AND
AMAZON WEB SERVICES
@robinhowlett
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2. ABOUT ME
• Robin Howlett
• Senior Architect at Silver Chalice (Boulder, CO)
• Lead for Advanced Media Platform
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3. ABOUT SILVER CHALICE
• Work with sports and media entities to build digital businesses
• Focus on mobile, digital sales, video, social and digital
networks, and new media technologies
• Backed by Chicago White Sox ownership
• Clients are major media and sports companies
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4. WHY CAMEL + AWS?
• Startup: small team, big project, quick deadline
• Existing products in market; needed to scale on day 1
• Complex data ecosystem; variety of providers, data formats
and distribution methods
• Needed expressive, powerful integration framework
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5. STYLE
• Brief overviews for context
• Technical detail over broad descriptions
• Code-first approach; fewer slides
• Increasing complexity
• Personal experience
• Q&A best for business and management questions
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6. AGENDA
• Introduction to Amazon Web Services
• Details of selected AWS products and architectures
• Overview of AWS SDK for Java and AWS Toolkit for Eclipse
• Demo: Camel’s AWS components
• Scaling Demo: Camel and AWS Elastic Beanstalk
• Cloud Routing Demo: Camel and AWS Simple Workflow (SWF)
• Q&A
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7. AMAZON WEB SERVICES
• Pay-as-you-go
• Scalable-on-demand resources
• HA
• Global
• Computing, Storage, Middleware, Database, Networking, CDN, Security, DevOps
• Open source technologies prominent
• Web service APIs and SDKs
• IaaS, PaaS, ?aaS
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8. AWS MAP
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9. IMPLICATIONS
• Rapid engineering
• Smaller teams with greater scope
• Budgeting
• SLAs
• Security
• Non-traditional engineering
• Complexity
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10. AWS PRODUCTS & SERVICES
• EC2 & EBS • Elastic Beanstalk
• S3 & CloudFront • ELB & Auto-Scaling
• RDS, SimpleDB & DynamoDB • Route 53
• SQS • ElastiCache
• SNS • CloudSearch
• SWF • CloudFormation
• IAM • VPC
• EMR • CloudWatch
• SES • AMIs
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11. EC2
• Micro-instances to high-computing clusters
• On-demand, spot or reserved pricing options
• EBS vs Instance Stores: implications
• Templating with AMIs and CloudFormation
• Security: IAM users, key pairs and security groups
• Load Balancing and Elastic IPs
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12. S3
• What’s cooler than a trillion objects?
• Buckets of objects, uniquely identified
• REST & SOAP interfaces; HTTP and BitTorrent
• SLA: 99.9% “uptime”; 99.999999% durability
• Static content, publicly accessible
• Combine with CloudFront for an instant global CDN
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13. RDS, SIMPLEDB & DYNAMODB
• RDS: MySQL or Oracle relational databases
• RDS: Invisible, auto-sharding, multi-AZ deployment, read replicas
• SimpleDB: non-relational (NoSQL) key-value-based data store; basically giant
tables
• SimpleDB: automatically replicated and geographically distributed
• DynamoDB: NoSQL database service; columns of key-values like SimpleDB; non-
binary data
• DynamoDB: SSDs! Only 64KB limit on item/row however and complex pricing
arrangement
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14. SQS
• Hosted, distributed queue
• Ordering, idempotency and approximations
• Consumers control message lifecycle with visibility timeouts
• Unlimited number of messages can be processed (64KB of
text max)
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15. SNS
• Pub-Sub web service
• Notification protocols include HTTP(S), SQS, email, SMS
• Subscribers must opt-in (SQS is automatic)
• Great for monitoring and mobile
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16. AWS SDK FOR JAVA
• https://github.com/amazonwebservices/aws-sdk-for-java
• Apache 2.0 License; some Apache Commons dependencies
• Almost all products and services supported
• Samples included
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17. AWS TOOLKIT FOR ECLIPSE
• Includes AWS SDK for Java
• AWS Explorer GUI administration tool
• Go through couple of AWS samples
• Demo toolkit
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18. CAMEL-AWS
• AWS-SQS (2.6.0)
• AWS-SNS (2.8.0)
• AWS-S3 (2.8.0)
• AWS-SES (2.8.4)
• AWS-SDB (2.8.4)
• AWS-DDB (2.10.0*)
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19. DEMO: CAMEL-AWS
COMPONENTS
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20. AWS ELASTIC BEANSTALK
• Platform-as-a-Service
• Provisioning, deployment, auto-scaling policies, load balancing,
monitoring
• Leverages EC2, S3, SNS, Elastic Load Balancing, and Auto-Scaling
• Linux AMI, Apache Tomcat (6/7, 32- or 64-bit), Apache Web
Server, Java EE
• Demo with AWS Toolkit
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21. SCALING DEMO:
CAMEL & ELASTIC BEANSTALK
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22. SWF
• Simple Workflow Service
• Distributed coordination hub web service
• Manages state, tasks, execution dependencies, scheduling, monitoring
and history
• Console provided
• Tasks, Workers and Deciders
• Camel complements it
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23. Activity workers are independent
task processors. They can do a
variety of different tasks e.g. poll,
store and converts providers’ data
Activity to our reference data models
Workers Different workers can be
responsible for each processing
step, and can be combined in any
way, so they are extremely
scaleable
The workflow engine is
the coordination and
orchestration system.
It is capable of
Workflow
controlling clusters of
workers, load balancing,
Engine
handling distributed
exceptions and tracking
workflow progress.
Workflow
workers decide
the order, timing Workflow The workflow
scheduler is
Workflow
and concurrency
of tasks the Workers Scheduler
responsible for
when workflows
activity workers
should be started
work on
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24. AWS FLOW FRAMEWORK
• Java programming framework for SWF
• Translates method calls into schedule decisions; assigns tasks to
workers
• Long running workflows, large media processing
• @Workflow and @Activities (show simple example)
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25. CLOUD ROUTING DEMO:
CAMEL & SWF
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26. Q&A
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