1. Making an integration sandwich
When you’ve run out of bread
Christopher Marsh
Head of Technical Architecture, AKQA

2. Anatomy of an integration sandwich
UX/creative
Application
development
Services

3. Problem: unfulfilled dependencies
No UX/creative
Balance of effort vs return
Meaningless guarantees

4. Solution: decouple systems and processes
Design-time decoupling
Run-time decoupling

5. Design-time decoupling
Goal: decouple presentation from application logic

6. Design-time decoupling
Model-View-Presenter design

7. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Model_View_Presenter.png

9. Design-time decoupling
Model-View-Presenter code

10. class View
Legend
API
Example concrete types
«interface» TView
IExampleUserControlView TPresenter:Presenter
UserControl
ViewControl TView «interface»
TPresenter:Presenter IExamplePageView
Page
ViewPage
TView :IExampleUserControlView TView :IExamplePageView
TPresenter:ExampleUserControlPresenter TPresenter:ExamplePagePresenter
ExampleUserControl ExamplePage

16. Design-time decoupling
Presenter-level acceptance tests

18. Design-time decoupling
Smoke tests and browser automation

19. Run-time decoupling
Goal: reduce application dependency on specific services

20. Run-time decoupling
Conway’s law/team structure

21. ...organisations which design systems [...] are
constrained to produce designs which are copies
of the communication structures of these
organisations.

26. Run-time decoupling
Deployment pipelines and package management

29. Run-time decoupling
Canned services

30. Run-time decoupling
Feeding back service interfaces

31. First bite?

32. Maintain velocity
Feed value back to client
Know when to pause

33. Questions?