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Building Performant, Reliable, Scalable Integrations with Mule ESB

Ryan Hoegg, Integration Architect, ConfluexRupesh Ramachandran, Solutions Architect, MuleSoft

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Service Level Agreement

First Class Requirements

Precision Matters

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Reliability SLAs

AvailabilityUptimeTime to Recovery

Message LossMaximum GuaranteeDetectionRecovery

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Scalability SLAs

CapacityPeakSustained(Degraded)

Message VolumeMessage Size

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Performance SLAs

Response Time ThroughputConcurrencySustainability

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Performance Tuning: Big picture

Mule ESBJVMOperating SystemFile SystemNetworkDownstream Systems

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Performance: Best Practices

Asynchronous vs SynchronousReal-time vs BatchStateful vs Stateless (web scale)On-Premise vs iPaaS

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Performance: Manage SLA’s

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Performance: Case Study

Use Case: API GatewayXML to JSON transformsMixed Payload Sizes

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Performance: Case Study

Test Case Mule ESB 3.5 EE as API Gateway

Infrastructure Amazon EC2 with 10GbE network

Throughput ~8000tps

Latency ~5ms

Scale Linear scale out, to 6 boxes*

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Performance Characteristics: Mule ESB 3.5 EE

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Making SLAs a Reality

PrioritizeModelMeasure

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Tuning: Focusing on What Matters

ObserveIdentify hot spotGenerate loadCompare with SLA

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Tuning: Improve Scalability

Scale Up, Scale OutSEDAStore and ForwardMessage Oriented Middleware

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Case Study: Gaming Platform

Public Beta Launch“Code Complete”Players are unforgiving

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Case Study: Gaming Platform

1. Catalog Services, Estimate Load

2. Prioritize

3. Isolate Mule and Instrument

4. Generate Load

5. Observe

6. Tune

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Case Study: Gaming Platform

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Case Study: Gaming Platform

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Tuning: Improve Reliability

Reliable Acquisition PatternTransactionsRetryDelegate

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Case Study: Retail

Business Critical Integration“Code Complete”Losing Purchase Orders

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Case Study: Retail

1. Determine failure modes

2. Decide how to respond

3. Induce and observe

4. Apply reliability patterns

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Case Study: Retail

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Questions?Please visit Confluex and

MuleSoft experts in the Expo Hall

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