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redpencil.io
A transitional
architecture
for Linked Data
Aad Versteden & Niels Vandekeybus
from redpencil.io for OpenBelgium

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- Lower total cost of ownership
- Ease to adapt and extend
- Predictable performance
- Easy to maintain
- Low initial cost
How are business solutions chosen?

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redpencil.ioredpencil.ioFrom Aad Versteden & Niels Vandekeybus of redpencil.io for Open Belgium
WHOOPS
Linked Data does not offer this . . . yet

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microservices birds-eye

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- Easy to understand
- Easy to debug
- Easy to reuse
Microservices are awesome

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Microservices are complex
- Data model dependencies
- API dependencies
- Disaster analysis

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- Direct connection to the database
- Using semantic modelling
Microservices are to be reengineered

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- Embrace Semantic Model
- Functional microservices
- Standard APIs
Microservices are micro standalone services

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… taking advantage of the semantic domain
model

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Some
history
Share code on personal projects
Rails is not über-productive
Stay light, choose later
Use microservices and semantic model

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mu.semte.ch

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In 60 seconds
State-of-the-art web applications fuelled by Linked Data aware microservices
- User-facing microservices
- Easy deployment using Docker
- Single Page Apps using Ember.js
- Well known requirements
=> [HTTP+JSON+SPARQL]
https://github.com/mu-semtech/
https://mu.semte.ch

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redpencil.ioredpencil.ioFrom Aad Versteden & Niels Vandekeybus of redpencil.io for Open Belgium
KISS
Keep It Super Simple

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KISS
- Most of us aren’t microservice experts
- Most of us aren’t UI experts
- We need to get stuff done
- Maximize freedom
- Orthogonal features
- Minimize requirements
- Enforce simple mental model

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redpencil.ioredpencil.ioFrom Aad Versteden & Niels Vandekeybus of redpencil.io for Open Belgium
Simple mental model
user-facing http-services

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Simple mental model
User-facing microservices
Limit base technologies:
- HTTP
- JSON(API)
- SPARQL (one graph)

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redpencil.ioredpencil.ioFrom Aad Versteden & Niels Vandekeybus of redpencil.io for Open Belgium
Semantic models
Many actors, telling parts of the same story

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Semantic models
Services read/write the part of the world they understand.
User Registration:
- There’s a new user => add it to the triplestore.
User Login:
- Check username/password => connect user to current session.

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Semantic models
Registration
service
Login service

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Semantic models
Many implementations, one model
Same model for:
- Username/Password login
- OAuth login
- ACM/IDM login

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redpencil.ioredpencil.ioFrom Aad Versteden & Niels Vandekeybus of redpencil.io for Open Belgium
Docker
Deployment made easy

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Docker Container =~ Lightweight Linux Virtual Machine
Docker Compose =~ Topology of multi-container project
Each service runs in its own Docker Container
In short:
- Simple hosting on hub.docker.com
- Clean project description
- Always works
Share using Docker

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redpencil.ioredpencil.ioFrom Aad Versteden & Niels Vandekeybus of redpencil.io for Open Belgium
Reuse everything

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Reuse everything
- Templates: basics for a service
- Configurable services
- mu-cl-resources
- Ember add-ons
- Data table addon
- Login add-on

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Base templates
CatalogsIndexRoute = Ember.Route.extend
ajax: Ember.inject.service()
model: () ->
@get('ajax').request('/hello')
Hello result: {{model.value}}
get '/hello/' do
counter = query( "SELECT COUNT (*) as ?counter" +
"WHERE {" +
" ?s ?p ?o." +
"}" ).first[:counter].to_i
status 200
{ value: counter }.to_json
end
FROM semtech/mu-ruby-template:2.0.0-ruby2.3
MAINTAINER Your Name <you@provider.com>
demo:
image: you/demo-service
links:
- db:database
dispatcher:
…
links:
- demo:demo
match "/hello/*path" do
Proxy.forward conn, path, "http://demo/hello/"
end
[mu-ruby-template]

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Configurable services
(define-resource agendapunt ()
:class (s-prefix "besluit:Agendapunt")
:properties `((:titel :string ,(s-prefix "dct:title"))
(:beschrijving :string ,(s-prefix "dct:description"))
(:openbaar :boolean ,(s-prefix
"besluit:geplandOpenbaar"))
:has-many `((agendapunt :via ,(s-prefix "dct:references")
:as "referenties"))
:has-one `((agendapunt :via ,(s-prefix "besluit:aangebrachtNa")
:as "vorige-agendapunt")
(agenda :via ,(s-prefix "besluit:heeftAgendapunt")
:inverse t
:as "agenda"))
:resource-base (s-url "https://data.lblod.info/id/agendapunten/")
:on-path "agendapunten")
[mu-cl-resources]
Full JSONAPI from abstract description

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Ember add-ons
> ember install ember-paper-data-table
// template
{{data-table
content=model
fields="title isbn genre publicationDate language numberOfPages"
sort=sort page=page size=size}}
// route
import Ember from 'ember';
import DataTableRouteMixin from 'ember-data-table/mixins/route';
export default Ember.Route.extend(DataTableRouteMixin, {
modelName: 'book'
});

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redpencil.ioredpencil.ioFrom Aad Versteden & Niels Vandekeybus of redpencil.io for Open Belgium
What we learned

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What we experienced
- Extremely productive
- Code reuse
- Easy for juniors
- Customers like front-end
- Database performance is okayish
- Conscious playing with alternative solutions

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redpencil.ioredpencil.ioFrom Aad Versteden & Niels Vandekeybus of redpencil.io for Open Belgium
About the future

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Trigger microservices by changes in
semantic model.
Example:
-Send email/tweet by writing it to the triplestore
- Compute KPIs when a new dataset is added
Reactive programming

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More performance
- ember-fastboot:
Faster first page render
- mu-cache:
Smart caching strategies in
core microservices
- mu-cl-resources:
Partial resource caching

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More authority
Describe authorization outside the microservices:
- Simplify mental model
- Help in sharing content
- Open gate to advanced
applications

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More interactivity
Push cache updates to all visiting clients.
Almost no development time to create
basic interactive applications
(eg: updating KPIs, chat applications, …)

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redpencil.ioredpencil.ioFrom Aad Versteden & Niels Vandekeybus of redpencil.io for Open Belgium
More links

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Resources used & interesting links
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