From Mainframe to Microservices with Pivotal Platform and Kafka: Bridging the Data Divide
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From Mainframe to Microservices with Pivotal Platform and Kafka: Bridging the Data Divide
- 1. From Mainframe to Microservices with Pivotal Platform & Kafka SpringOne Platform - October 10, 2019 Dmitry Milman & Ankur Kaneria - Express Scripts, a Cigna Company Bridging the Data Divide
- 2. 2 © 2018 Express Scripts. All Rights Reserved. Agenda üCompany Background üPrior Architecture üMicroservice Architecture üData Sync Platform üKafka Libraries and Connectivity Options üKafka Partitioning Strategies üPerformance & Health Monitoring üPerformance Optimization With Caching üWhat’s Next
- 3. 3 © 2018 Express Scripts. All Rights Reserved. What does Express Scripts do ? üPart of Cigna Corporation üJust like your medical plan covers visits to your doctor, your Express Scripts prescription plan covers the medicine your doctor prescribes üWe’re one of the largest pharmacy benefits managers in the United States and one of the country’s largest pharmacies üServe more than 100 million people üClaims Volume üDaily ~6 million üAnnual ~2 Billion
- 4. 4 © 2018 Express Scripts. All Rights Reserved. Executive Summary • In the past, we rebuilt the same functionality for every big project • Entity Platform strategy focuses on building once and reusing • This increases up-front costs, but decreases capital spend over time & increases speed of delivery WHY WE’RE MOVING TO ENTITIES Pharmacy As A Platform Rebates 20/20 Support Clients Manage Products Orders Member Prescription Orders Claim Benefit Contract Claim Benefit Contract Member Benefit Pharmacy As A Platform Rebates 20/20 Support Clients Manage Products Orders Prescription Benefit Member Claim Contract Data Sync
- 5. 5 © 2018 Express Scripts. All Rights Reserved. Walking the Interaction and Business Tier Stack User Interaction Channels (Applications) Business Platforms User Interface Logic Human Workflow UI Frameworks Business platforms consists of entities with REST-based APIs that completely control access to a data domain. They are first class citizens.RequiredRequired Web Sites Mobile Apps …and more... Entity Platform Entity Platform Entity Platform Data Data Data Person Membership Referral Order Shipment Drug Price Quote and more... Interaction APIs Aggregations UX-Specific Views Optional User-specific order status Cross-entity items, not aligned with a UI that don’t map to an entity. Optional Business Process & Logic
- 6. 6 © 2018 Express Scripts. All Rights Reserved. Claims History Lookup Member Site (Applications) Business Platforms Member Website Used by our members to view claims history, orders etc. RequiredRequired User Accounts Person Entity Claims Entity Data Data Data 1. Member login-in. Authenticated through User Accounts 2. A resource id that uniquely identifies the member is retrieved 3. Using the unique member key, appropriate member specific claims history data is accessed and displayed to the member 1 2 3
- 7. 7 © 2018 Express Scripts. All Rights Reserved. Target Sync Platform Data Sync Platform (System Architecture) Source Service Platform Source DB Source Service Target Service Platform Kafka Retry Topic Retry Stream Processor Target DB* Target Service CDC Topic Update Topic CDC Stream Processor Update Stream Processor on error üChange Data Capture (CDC) üKafka üTarget Sync Platform Error Topic CDC Pivotal Platform * Outside Pivotal Platform
- 8. 8 © 2018 Express Scripts. All Rights Reserved. Data Sync Platform (Multi-tenancy, HA & Scalability) Source Platform (Mainframe) CDC Kafka Near real-time Streaming (Commodity Hardware) Org 1 Org 2 Org 3 Foundation Target Service Platform (Pivotal Platform) AZ 1 AZ 2 AZ 3
- 9. 9 © 2018 Express Scripts. All Rights Reserved. Kafka Libraries and Connectivity Options üSeveral options üProducer & consumer APIs üStreams API üConnectors ecosystem (Confluent hub) & Connector API üSpring’s wrapper (spring-kafka, spring-cloud-stream) üNo silver bullet üEvery use-case is different and unique üDo your own due diligence
- 10. 10 © 2018 Express Scripts. All Rights Reserved. General Guidelines üProducer & Consumer APIs üApplications directly producing data streams (e.g. clickstreams, logs, IoT…) üRead a stream and perform real-time actions on it (e.g. send email, generate alarm, send notification…) üStreams API üApplications wanting to consume from Kafka and produce back into Kafka, also called stream processing üVery powerful & offers advanced features for complex processing logic üKstream, Ktable, stateless/stateful processing, state store, aggregations, punctuation…
- 11. 11 © 2018 Express Scripts. All Rights Reserved. General Guidelines (continued) üConnectors ecosystem (Confluent hub) & connector API üInteractions with data stores ( e.g. S3, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, HDFS…) üSpring’s Framework (spring-kafka, spring-cloud-stream) üJava based applications üSpring native out of the box capabilities üHybrid Approach üStreams API for advanced/complex logic üSpring-cloud-stream for applications with generic streams processing and handling
- 12. 12 © 2018 Express Scripts. All Rights Reserved. Topic1 Topic2 Topic3 CDC Stream Join Table1 Table2 Table3 Tran1 Tran2 Tran3 Tran4 Tran5 Tran6 Merged Stream Kafka Partitioning Strategies for CDC n Tables : n Topics With Multiple Partitions
- 13. 13 © 2018 Express Scripts. All Rights Reserved. CDC Stream Join Table1 Table2 Table3 Tran1 Tran2 Tran3 Tran4 Tran5 Tran6 Merged Stream Partition1 Partition2 Partition3 Kafka Partitioning Strategies for CDC n Tables : 1 Topic With Multiple Partitions
- 14. 14 © 2018 Express Scripts. All Rights Reserved. CDC Stream Join Table1 Table2 Table3 Tran1 Tran2 Tran3 Tran4 Tran5 Tran6 Kafka Partitioning Strategies for CDC n Tables : 1 Topic With 1 Partition T1.Partition1 T2.Partition1 T2.Partition2 T2.Partition3 Re-Partition Merged Stream
- 15. 15 © 2018 Express Scripts. All Rights Reserved. Kafka Partitioning strategies for CDC ü1:1 Table to Kafka topic partitioned by table key üAllows for highly parallelized consumption üGood strategy when eventual consistency suffices üChallenging if strong transactional consistency is need üMultiple tables to 1 topic with 1 partition üFirehose type approach üAllows for strong transactional consistency üRe-partition for parallelism üMultiple tables to 1 topic partitioned by common logical key üAllows for parallelism due to multiple partitions üAllows for strong transactional consistency üChallenging if a common key is not present across all table
- 16. 16 © 2018 Express Scripts. All Rights Reserved. Performance & Health of the Pipeline üLatency monitoring üThroughput monitoring
- 17. 17 © 2018 Express Scripts. All Rights Reserved. Target Sync Platform Performance Optimization with Caching Source Service Platform Source DB Source Service Target Service Platform Kafka ENTITY CHANGE Topic Target DB Target Service Source Change Topic Target Change Topic CDC Stream Processor Update Stream Processor ENTITY LATEST Topic Cache Cache Cache Distributed Kafka State Store
- 18. 18 © 2018 Express Scripts. All Rights Reserved. What’s Next üData Lake for analytics üMicroservices to act on data events in real time üEntity first approach
- 19. 19 © 2018 Express Scripts. All Rights Reserved. THANK YOU !