Polyglot engineering
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The document discusses polyglot engineering, emphasizing the benefits of engineers mastering multiple software platforms and frameworks to enhance adaptability and efficiency in a rapidly changing tech landscape. It highlights the principles of micro-services and polyglot persistence, advocating for the use of optimal data stores for individual micro-services rather than a monolithic approach. Additionally, it encourages organizations to explore polyglot practices and engage in discussions about overcoming challenges related to their implementation.
Polyglot engineering
- 1. Polyglot engineering and our learnings…
- 3. 3 Polyglot / Polyglotism The ability to master, or the state of having mastered, multiple (human) languages. This comes with a list of abilities / characteristics. Polyglot engineer An engineer who has mastered several software platforms / frameworks. Meaning built multiple applications on it, or has several years of experience on it Polyglot engineering / architecture The practice of leveraging several software platforms / frameworks to built your (cloud) platform. This requires engineering practices which a decade ago were not yet ready for prime time What is polyglot engineering?
- 4. 4 Apply best practices from each Each platform has its own set of best practices. Many can be applied to other platforms as well Demonstrated the ability to rapidly learn Engineers who have worked on 2-3 platforms for a reasonable time with reasonable experience will have the ability to learn new frameworks and technologies rapidly. The core engineering skills matter! Can more broadly work across your platform There are generalists and specialists. You need reasonable depth of knowledge but the ability to work on multiple areas of your platform combined with ability to rapidly learn are the sweet-spot in today’s rapidly changing tech world Why polyglot engineers?
- 5. 5 Micro-services Small independent services, micro-services, with Hypermedia API’s as your access point. It enables you to choose different platforms to run each on Clear separation of layers Hypermedia API’s as your glue between the presentation tier, middle tier and your various applications. Each can run on its own optimal platform / stack Polyglot persistence Each micro-service has its own optimal data store. So move away from a monolithic data store. Each micro- service can optimize for its use – relational data store, document based data store or even an S3 file bucket. What are your enablers for polyglot engineering?
- 6. 6 What are your enablers for polyglot engineering?
- 7. 7 Standardization was the past In the past most tech companies strived towards standardization to reduce operational cost. As more and more runs in the cloud this becomes less relevant. Leverage the cloud Today we leverage more and more existing cloud services to solve particular problems. And its irrelevant whether they run on Amazon, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud or custom infrastructure. The standards like Hypermedia API, Json, etc. make it seamless to interact. Micro-services By using a micro-service architecture the same applies within your platform. Any of the big cloud providers can run most of today’s development platforms. But, yes you loose some capabilities. Polyglot infrastructure
- 8. 8 Exercise One (3 min) Work with your neighbour and discuss how polyglotism is used in your organization. If you don’t use it yet, then discuss potential ways to introduce it. Share experiences and hurdles... Exercise Two (3 min) Now turn around to your other neighbour and share challenges / hurdles this has introduced for you. Again if you don’t use it yet, discuss potential challenges with it.
- 9. 9 Polyglot talk by ThoughtWorks July 2015 by Scott Shaw and James Gregory
- 10. 10 My LinkedIn blog posts https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/polyglot-engineering-engineers-klaus-salchner Polyglot Persistence by Martin Fowler http://martinfowler.com/bliki/PolyglotPersistence.html Polyglot architecture by AppNeta https://www.appneta.com/blog/polyglot-architectures Some more reading
- 11. 11 Meet-up group http://www.meetup.com/PolyglotVancouver Twitter https://twitter.com/polyglotconf Polyglot conference (May) http://www.polyglotconf.com Polyglot Vancouver
- 12. 12 If you don’t use polyglotism yet Discuss with your leaders the value of polyglot engineering / architecture and how you can start to experiment with it Call for action If you already practice polyglotism then Discuss how you can accelerate the adoption of polyglotism and how you can make it more efficient for your team