Microsoft AppFabric

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Introducing

Session objectives

Azure AppFabric

Architectural choices

Windows AppFabric

AppFabric

• Services to build and manage composite applications

• Formerly known as– BizTalk Services– .NET Services– Velocity– Dublin

Service & Workflow

Management

Caching ServiceBus Access Control

• Workflows• Monitoring• Troubleshooti

ng• Scaling out• Scripting

• Distributed• Enterprise

scale• Load

balancing• ASP.NET

Integration

• Connect• Pass through• Discoverable• REST based

• Claim based• Transformati

on• Security

Token• REST based

Windows ServerAppFabric Azure AppFabric

SERVICE & WORKFLOWMANAGEMENT

Windows Server AppFabric

Brought my own whiteboard

ClientWCF

Service Database

Hosting services

Host

What are the current hosting capabilities of services?

ClientWCF

Service Database

Hosting services

Host

#1 – Your own application (Self hosted)

No quality of service

MyApp.exe

Easiest to deploy

ClientWCF

Service Database

Hosting services

Host

#2 – Windows Service

MyService.exe

Run in background, some monitoringHardly any quality of service

ClientWCF

Service Database

Hosting services

IIS

#3 – Internet Information Services

MyService.svc

Excellent quality of serviceSupports only HTTP protocol

ClientWCF

Service Database

Hosting services

WAS

#4 – Windows Process Activation Services

MyService.svc

Excellent quality of service, multiple protocolsNo support for hosting Workflows & true scalability

Enter Dublin…

ClientWCF

Service Database

Hosting services

AppFabric

#4 – Service & Workflow Management

MyService.svc

Quality of Service from IIS/WASHosting scalable workflow & WCF Services

Workflow

Windows Server

.NET Framework

Windows Server AppFabric

Services

Management Tools

IIS/WAS

Workflows

Runtime DatabasesPersistence Monitoring

HostingPersistence CachingMonitoring

IIS Manager Modules

PowerShell

ScalableShare workflow state across machines

AppFabric Hosting

Windows Service + AppFabric

Windows Service + AppFabric

Windows Service + AppFabric

PersistenceDatabase

Management Service

Management Service

Management Servicex

ScalableRetry mechanism for race conditions

AppFabric Hosting

Windows Service + AppFabric

Windows Service + AppFabric

Management Service

Management Service

Client3F2504E0-4F89-11D3-1337-

…

Persistence Database

x

CACHINGWindows Server AppFabric

Let’s look at a problemyou might experience yourself…

AppFabric Caching

WebServer

WebServer

WebServer

Load Balancer

Database

AppFabric Caching

WebServer

WebServer

WebServer

Load Balancer

Database

x

AppFabric Caching

WebServer

WebServer

WebServer

Load Balancer

Database

Solution is sticky sessions…

We’ll have uneven load balancing,we might loose sessions,

etc…

AppFabric Caching

WebServer

WebServer

WebServer

Load Balancer

Database

Another solution is using DBMS to store sessions

Doesn’t scale well,we’ll have a performance bottleneck.

And clustering is costly andfault sensitive!

What is AppFabric Caching?• An explicit, distributed, in-memory application

cache for all kinds of data (CLR objects, XML, Binary data, etc.)– Flows "memory" across machines into a unified

cache

Unified Cache View

Clients can be spread across machines or

processes

Clients Access the Cache as if it was a large single cache

Cache Layer distributes data

across the various cache nodes

AppFabric Caching

WebServer

WebServer

WebServer

Load Balancer

Database

Why Velocity?

Operation Throughput

Latency

Read 2k 30,000 / sec

3 – 4 ms

Write 2k 18,000 / sec

3 ms

Operation Servers

Throughput

Read 2k 1 30,000 / secRead 2k 2 58, 600 / secRead 2k 3 85, 500 / sec

Velocity

* Share data across applications No more sticky routing

* Peformance

* Scale out

MSDN Forums5 Velocity Servers, 40GB Cache

98% of all calls to database come from cacheResult is from 60% load on SQL Server, down to 2%

Basic terminology in Velocity

• Cache host• Cache cluster• Cluster configuration storage• Named cache• Region• Cache item• Tags

Machine 1Cache host A

Cache host B

Machine 2Cache host C

Machine 2Cache host DNamed cache : Product catalog

Named cache : ShoppingCart

Region A

Working with Velocity// Create instance of CacheFactory, which reads app.config DataCacheFactory factory = new DataCacheFactory();        

// Get a named cache from the factory       DataCache cache = factory.GetCache("default");

// Cache.Put(string key, object value)cache.Add("SDN", new SDNSession()); // Cache.Get(string key);var meeting = (SDNSession)cache.Get("SDN");

// Via indexers is also an optioncache["what"] = new Object();Object o = cache["what"];

Tagsvar starWarsTag = new DataCacheTag("StarWars");

var tags = new List<DataCacheTag>();tags.Add(starWarsTag);tags.Add(new DataCacheTag("Force"));tags.Add(new DataCacheTag("Sith")); cache.Add("MyKey", "A New Hope", tags, "StarWarsRegion"); var result = cache.GetObjectsByTag(starWarsTag, "StarWarsRegion"); foreach (var item in result){  Console.WriteLine("{0} has value of {1}", item.Key, item.Value);}

Optimistic lockingDataCacheItemVersion versionWillChange;DataCacheItemVersion versionWithError; // First get the current version 2 timescache.Get("MyKey", out versionWillChange);cache.Get("MyKey", out versionWithError); // We change the key, version hasn't changed in Velocity yet.cache.Put("MyKey", "MyNewValue", versionWillChange); // Version has changed with previous update, this will #failcache.Put("MyKey", "MyErrorValue", versionWithError);

Pessimistic lockingDataCacheLockHandle lockHandle = null;DataCacheLockHandle secondLockHandle = null; // Lock our objectcache.GetAndLock("MyKey", new TimeSpan(0, 0, 10), out lockHandle); // This will still workstring result = (string)cache.Get("MyKey"); // Try to lock for 2nd time -> #failcache.GetAndLock("MyKey", new TimeSpan(0, 0, 10), out secondLockHandle); // This will break the lock!!!cache.Put("MyKey", "MyNewValue");

Notification callbackDataCacheOperation filter = DataCacheOperation.AddItem;cache.AddItemLevelCallback("MyKey", filter, callback);cache.AddRegionLevelCallback("Region", filter, callback);cache.AddFailureNotificationCallback(failCallback); cache.Add("MyKey", "MyInitialValue");

public static void callback (string myCacheName,    string myRegion, string myKey, DataCacheItemVersion itemVersion, DataCacheOperation OperationId,    DataCacheNotificationDescriptor nd){  //display some of the delegate parameters  Console.WriteLine("Region : " + myRegion);  Console.WriteLine("Key : " + myKey);}

ASP.NET Session integration

• SessionStoreProvider class– Plugs into ASP.NET Session store– Stores session state in Velocity

• Scale– Session information available at all ASP.NET

Nodes• High availability

– Session data is backed up on addditional machines– Resilient to machine or process failures

Azure AppFabric

• Webbased services• Yes, in the cloud!• Allow you to easily connect applications

SERVICE BUSAzure AppFabric

Azure Service Bus

Azure Service Bus

Let’s open a port and do some forwarding

Azure Service Bus

Oh, what about NAT, Proxies, etc?

Azure Service Bus

Service Bus

Azure Service Bus

Service Bus

App

Features

• Services discoverable through SB url• Full duplex channels supporting

bi-directional communiction• Full-duplex p2p sessions

– with network-boundary traversal create direct end-to-end connectivity through NAT

• Multiple publishers & subscribers• REST based (non .NET platform support)

Azure AppFabric LABShttp://portal.appfabriclabs.com/

ACCESS CONTROLAzure AppFabric

Azure Access Control

Service Bus

Federated Identity

Azure Access Control

Service Bus

Access Control

ID

Azure Access Control

Service Bus

Access Control

App ID

Access Control

• Two new protocols– Created by Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, etc– Oauth WRAP & SWT– Authentication in HTTP Headers– Usable even via JavaScript– Ready for Geneva/WIF

Access Control

• The future• No WS* available yet… or no longer?• CardSpace• Support for other web identity providers

– Windows Live– Google– Yahoo– OpenId

Azure Pricing

• Access Control– $1.99 / 100K transactions

• Service Bus Connections– $3.99 per connection– $9.99 for a pack of 5 connections– $199 for a pack of 100 connections

• Data Transfers– $0.10 in / $0.15 out per Gigabyte

Example (real world) architecture

Example architecture

SQL Website

Example architecture

SQL Website“Server Busy”

Example architecture

SQL WebsiteN L B

Website

Website

Example architecture

SQL WebsiteN L B

Website

Website“Timeout”

An important change was made…

Example architecture

SQL WebsiteN L B

Website

Website

Prepublished Databases using SQL Express

Sync Framework

Isolated servers

One way!

How to submit state changes to backend?

Example architecture

SQL WebsiteN L B

Website

Website

Sync Framework

BackendWCF

Service

MSMQAppFabric Hosting

Cache

Example architecture

SQL WebsiteN L B

Website

Website

Sync Framework

Backend

Service

MSMQAppFabric Hosting

Cache

REST Based Service Layer

SB AC

The near future?

Summary

• Different AppFabric components• Difference Azure & Windows AppFabric• New architectural choices• Do you see benefits or opportunities?

questionsResources:• .NET Magazine maart 2010 & SDN Magazine• http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/• http://bit.ly/1P6f5D• http://bloggingabout.net/blogs/dennis/