Kick off doc Jan 2021

lon[eng] Microenterprise Stack

Theory

Modern tooling makes standing-up a full container orchestration stack far simpler and more pragmatic than it was a few years ago.

Brief

To architect and build a software stack to support microenterprise software development for DV.

Desired Artifact

A repo of documentation, architecture diagrams and full IaC from which a new DV venture could stand up a complete event-based services architecture, with core functionality baked in:

• Service Discovery
• Operability
• Observability

The stack should provide functionality for:

• Service mesh
• Security - API perimeter/WAF
• AuthZ/AuthN
• i18n/l10n
• Caching
• Testing (unit and system)
• Developer experience / local runtime
• Service to service calls both sync and async
• Pub/Sub message broker
• Observability
• Operability
• Deployment (blue/green)
• Versioning
• Horizontal auto-scaling
• DNS
• Multiple environments
• Persistence (SQL + noSQL)

Action Plan

This is a big ask, which runs the risk of getting rapidly complex and potentially out of control. !

To mitigate this risk, we should collaborate and take small steps.

• Create a working group - document on Confluence
• Assign RI Director[s] to the project
• Seek contributors from the cohort
• Create repo and project on BCGDV Github
• Begin C4 architecture diagrams
• Build helloWorld services
• Spike simple container deployments with various tools/cloud providers
• RI Director establish meeting cadence and next steps
• Tools to Review https://linkerd.io/ https://www.consul.io/