APIs for cutting edge enterprise apps: Apigee BaaS and Apache Usergrid

1. Building the better BaaS
Ed Anuff & Nate McCall

2. @edanuff @zznate

3. What’s a BaaS and what’s so special about Usergrid?
Ed Anuff
Usergrid Founder, Apigee Product Strategist
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4. App, Cloud, and HTTP
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5. No Web Stack
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Page Templates
MVC Logic
Database

6. Just Apps and APIs
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7. Building A Platform
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8. Not just an App
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9. App
Developer

10. Team Team Team

11. App App App
Team

12. App
Team

13. App
Team

14. App App App App App App
Team Team Team

15. Key Challenges
• New Type Of Database (Cassandra)
• New Type Of Deployment (Elastic in the Cloud, Small & Fast on the Desktop)
• New Type of Access (REST API, SDKs)
• New Type of Learning Curve (Smart Docs & Swagger)
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16. Major Milestones & Progress
• 2011 – Usergrid released as first Open Source BaaS
• 2012 – Usergrid becomes part of Apigee
• 2012 – Apigee ships Enterprise App Services
• 2013 – Integrated as Apigee Edge BaaS
• 2013 – Usergrid goes to Apache
• 2014 – Apache Usergrid 1.0 release!
• 2014 – Apigee 127 Developer Kit with Node.js, Volos, and Usergrid
• 2014 – Apigee BaaS 2.0 and Usergrid 2.0 Beta
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17. How do you use a BaaS?
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18. /users
/groups
/users/me/followers

19. /restaurants
/products
/car-washes
/<whatever>

20. POST /devices/<id>

21. POST /events
{ “category” : “ads”,
“counters” : {
“ad_clicks” : 5
}}

22. /users/ed/friends/nate
/users/ed/likes/foods/pizza

23. GET /restaurants?near=37.803, -
122.404

24. GET /restaurants?ql=name
contains ‘pizza’ and within 5m of
39.962,-105.114

25. POST /users/me/activities
{ “title”: “look”,
“location”: …}

26. GET /users/me/feed
[{ “title”: “Ed ate a slice of pizza”,
“location”: …}]

27. postUserActivity(me, activity)
[client postUserActivity: “me”
activity: activityObj]

28. /token?grant_type=...
/auth/facebook?fb_access_token
=…

29. /users?filter=facebook.first_name
eq 'john'

30. /users?ql=name eq 'john' and
facebook.education.
school.name contains '...'

31. What’s Usergrid 2.0 all about?
Nate McCall
Apache Usergrid PPMC & Cassandra MVP
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32. Who is this man and why isn’t he here?
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Todd Nine, Lead Architect for Apigee Edge BaaS, Apache Usergrid Committer, and
Recently Married Man as of Last Friday, now on Honeymoon

33. New Pieces of the Stack
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RxJava Archaius
GuicyFig

34. Challenges
• 1.0 Architecture had a number of Cassandra anti-patterns
• Enterprise users wanted to load and query large datasets
• Cassandra moving to 2.0 with CQL3, deprecating Thrift protocol
• Team wanted to leverage new indexing models of Elastic Search
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35. New Architectures
• Elastic Search
• Cassandra 2.0+
• Moving most common operations to CQL as the transport
• Archaius and Guice for dynamic configuration management
• Hystrix and RxJava
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36. New Architectures: Elastic Search
• Right tool for the job
• Cassandra worked… until it didn’t.
• Well known operationalization characteristics
• Scale-out was well understood for “full text search” use case
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37. New Architectures: Cassandra 2.0/2.1
• Still best of breed NoSQL solution for scale
• Off-heap performance improvements
• Failure scenario performance improvements
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38. New Architectures: Archaius and Guice
• Properties typing
• Property change polling
• Hierarchical callbacks on changes
• Load from anywhere dynamic sources
• … all via Guice annotations
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39. New Architectures: Archaius + Guice = GuicyFig
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40. New Architectures: Archaius + Guice = GuicyFig
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41. New Architectures: Hystrix and RxJava
• Compose sequences of asynchronous events declaratively
• Circuit breaker pattern for back-off and retry
• Natural fit with complex, asynchronous operations such as graph updates…
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42. New Architectures: RxJava Example
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43. More Stuff
• Major components are plug-able
• MVCC
• Directed edge graph supports time series and collections
• Chop load testing framework
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44. New Open Source Projects Spun Out
• Judo-Chop: annotation based load testing framework
• GuicyFig: combination of Netflix’s Archaius and Google’s Guice
• Modular Cassandra JUnit integration (coming soon!)
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45. What’s next?
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46. Usergrid 3.0
• V2 API (V3?)
• Subscriptions (standing server-side queries with notifications)
• WebSocket/Server-side Events
• WebHooks
• Data storage management (reporting, limits, etc.)
• Collection management (deletes, copies, etc.)
• Consistency exposed via API(conditional puts, etc.)
• Indexing API
• Queues
• Expanded/pluggable sign-in (more Oauth, LDAP, etc.)
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47. How can you get involved?
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http://www.usergrid.org

49. http://developer.apigee.com

50. Thank you