Azure Service Fabric - Tutorial 1 - Introduction
Summary
TLDRThis tutorial series dives into Azure Service Fabric, a platform for developing scalable, high-availability microservices. It covers the basics of microservices, the benefits of Service Fabric for replication and partitioning, and its support for container orchestration and distributed system challenges. The series also highlights Service Fabric's open-source nature, cross-platform capabilities, and its use in powering major applications like Cosmos DB and Skype. Aimed at developers, it emphasizes the growing demand for cloud and distributed computing skills, showcasing Service Fabric's programming model for developing stateful, stateless services, and APIs.
Takeaways
- ๐ Azure Service Fabric is a platform-as-a-service for creating internet-scale, high-availability, and low-latency microservices.
- ๐ A microservice is a small, single-responsibility service that processes a specific type of transaction or provides an API.
- ๐ Service Fabric facilitates high availability, reliability, and scalability through service replication and partitioning.
- ๐ ๏ธ It is not a distributed database but a distributed application framework that complements distributed databases for building scalable applications.
- ๐ทโโ๏ธ Service Fabric handles challenges like container orchestration, failure detection, and reliable message delivery internally.
- ๐ The platform is open-source with an active GitHub repository contributed to by both Microsoft and the community.
- ๐ It is versatile, running on Windows and Linux, on-premises or in other clouds, including AWS and Google Cloud Platform.
- ๐ Service Fabric scales well, capable of scaling to thousands of machines to handle significant loads and throughput.
- ๐ข Microsoft and various other large companies, such as BMW and Honeywell, use Service Fabric to power their applications.
- ๐ผ Learning Service Fabric is beneficial as cloud and distributed computing skills are in high demand and command higher salaries.
- ๐ ๏ธ The tutorial series will cover developing both container orchestration and distributed applications using Service Fabric, including stateful and stateless services, APIs, and actor model services.
Q & A
What is Azure Service Fabric?
-Azure Service Fabric is a platform-as-a-service for building internet-scale, highly available, and low-latency microservices.
What is a microservice?
-A microservice is a small, focused service that has one responsibility, such as processing a specific type of transaction or providing an API.
How does Service Fabric help achieve high availability, reliability, and scalability?
-Service Fabric helps by allowing services to be easily replicated and partitioned, which means running multiple instances of the same service and having different instances handle different subsets of data.
What is the difference between Service Fabric and a distributed database like Apache Cassandra?
-Service Fabric is a distributed application framework rather than a distributed database. It works well with distributed databases to create end-to-end scalable and reliable applications.
What problems does Service Fabric solve for large-scale distributed systems?
-Service Fabric handles issues like container orchestration, failure detection, and reliable message delivery, allowing developers to focus on building the business logic of their applications.
Is Service Fabric open source?
-Yes, Service Fabric is open source with an active GitHub repository that is contributed to by both Microsoft and the open-source community.
On which platforms can Service Fabric run?
-Service Fabric can run on Windows and Linux, on-premise or in other clouds such as AWS or Google Cloud Platform, not just on Microsoft Azure.
How does Service Fabric scale?
-Service Fabric scales very well and can be scaled to thousands of machines, allowing it to handle large loads and throughput on the system.
Which Microsoft applications are powered by Service Fabric?
-Microsoft applications such as Cosmos DB, Skype, Event Hubs, Bing, and Cortana are powered by Service Fabric.
Why is learning about Azure Service Fabric beneficial for a developer?
-Learning about Azure Service Fabric is beneficial as cloud and distributed computing skills are in high demand and can lead to higher salaries, according to a LinkedIn survey.
What programming model does Service Fabric provide for developing distributed applications?
-Service Fabric provides a programming model that supports the development of stateful and stateless services, APIs, and services built on the actor model.
What tools and languages will be used predominantly in the tutorial series?
-The tutorial series will predominantly use C#, Azure, and Visual Studio 2019, with an assumption of some knowledge of these tools and languages by the user.
Outlines
๐ Introduction to Azure Service Fabric
This paragraph introduces the tutorial series focused on Azure Service Fabric, a platform for building scalable and reliable microservices. It explains the concept of microservices, which are small, single-responsibility services that can be replicated and partitioned to achieve high availability and scalability. The paragraph also highlights how Service Fabric simplifies the development of microservices by handling challenges like container orchestration and message delivery. It mentions that Service Fabric is open-source and can be used across different platforms and operating systems, including Windows and Linux, and in various cloud environments. The paragraph concludes by noting the importance of learning Service Fabric due to its demand in the job market and its use in powering various Microsoft and other companies' applications.
๐ Setting Up a Local Service Fabric Cluster
In this paragraph, the focus shifts to the practical aspect of the tutorial series, where viewers will learn how to install and set up a local Service Fabric cluster on a Windows machine. The speaker thanks the audience for watching and encourages them to continue engaging with the content by subscribing to the channel. This sets the stage for the upcoming tutorial on local cluster setup, which is a crucial step for developers looking to work hands-on with Service Fabric and understand its capabilities in a local development environment.
Mindmap
Keywords
๐กDistributed Systems
๐กMicroservices
๐กService Fabric
๐กReplication
๐กPartitioning
๐กHigh Availability
๐กScalability
๐กContainer Orchestration
๐กFailure Detection
๐กReliable Message Delivery
๐กOpen Source
๐กCI/CD Pipelines
Highlights
Introduction to the tutorial series on distributed systems.
Focus on Azure Service Fabric, a platform-as-a-service for building internet-scale, low-latency microservices.
Explanation of microservices and their role in high availability, reliability, and scalability.
Service Fabric helps with replication and partitioning of services to achieve high availability and scalability.
Comparison of Service Fabric with Apache Cassandra, noting that Service Fabric is a distributed application framework.
Service Fabric simplifies container orchestration, failure detection, and reliable message delivery.
Service Fabric is open-source, with contributions from both Microsoft and the open-source community.
Service Fabric can run on Windows, Linux, on-premises, or in other cloud platforms like AWS and Google Cloud Platform.
Scalability of Service Fabric to thousands of machines, handling huge loads and throughput.
Microsoft uses Service Fabric for applications like Cosmos DB, Skype, Event Hubs, Bing, and Cortana.
Other companies using Service Fabric include BMW, Schneider Electric, Honeywell, and KPMG.
Cloud and distributed computing skills are in high demand, making knowledge of Service Fabric valuable for developers.
Service Fabric provides container orchestration similar to Kubernetes and includes a built-in programming model.
The programming model allows for the development of stateful and stateless services, APIs, and services based on the actor model.
The tutorial will cover setting up a Service Fabric cluster locally on Windows and developing CI/CD pipelines for deployment.
Overview of using C#, Azure, and Visual Studio 2019, as well as other programming languages like Node.js and Python on Service Fabric.
Next video will demonstrate installing and setting up Service Fabric cluster locally on a Windows machine.
Transcripts
hi guys welcome back to another tutorial
series in this tutorial series we'll be
continuing to look at distributed
systems and this we'll be looking at as
or service fabric Azure service fabric
is a platform as-a-service
for building internet scale high troop
or low latency micro services so for
those who don't know a micro service is
a very small service that usually just
has one responsibility so it's just
responsible for performing one action
say processes in one type of transaction
or providing an API and using micro
services allows us to split our
application to achieve high availability
reliability and scalability service
fabric gives us a lot of help with this
and allows us to easily replicate which
means running multiple instances of the
same service at once partition which
means having different instances of the
same service handled different subsets
of our data and by replicating and
partitioning our services were able to
achieve the high availability
reliability and scalability that is
often demanded of today's modern
application that are always on
distributed and need to be very scalable
for loads that change from time to time
so in our previous tutorial series we
talked a lot about Apache Cassandra
which is a distributed database now
service fabric is is not really a
distributed database it's more of a
distributed application framework and
these work very well with distributed
databases who achieve an application
that's end and very scalable and very
reliable and service fabric helps us to
solve many of the problems that are
commonly associated with these
large-scale distributed systems so
things like container orchestration
failure detection and reliable message
delivery are all handled internally by
the service fabric platform and we can
just focus on building the business
logic that our application needs so we
can see on the service of fabric home
page here that as we said our service
fabric allows us to build and operate
always-on scalable distributed
applications and allows us to simplify
the development of our micro services
and orchestrate our containers and
unlike many of the Microsoft products
with the past service fabric is about
open source so there's
actually a github that's actively
contributed to by both Microsoft and the
open-source community so we can actually
see that here and we if we want we can
go and we can look into the source code
of service fabric we can look at all the
different files that are there and if we
want to get a deep dive into how service
fabric is actually built we can look at
that here and also service fabric can
run anywhere so it runs about Windows
and Linux it can run on premise or in
other cloud so we can actually boot up a
service fabric cluster in AWS or in
Google cloud platform
not just Microsoft Azure so just like
many ordered distributed systems service
fabric scales very well so we can scale
it to thousands of machines so this can
allow us to handle huge load and huge
true put on our system so who uses
service fabric obviously Microsoft uses
service fabric to power a lot of their
applications that are used widely so for
instance cosmos DB Skype event hubs Bing
and Cortana are all powered under the
hood buzzer or service fabric and it's
also used by a wide variety of order
companies or big companies like we can
see here on the service fabric web site
like BMW Schneider Electric Honeywell
KPMG and a host of other big and small
companies throughout the world apart for
getting a job in one of these companies
why would a developer want to learn
about Azure service fabric so if we can
look at this medium post which has
information here from LinkedIn survey we
can see that cloud and distributed
computing skills top the salary scale
for the most in-demand skills of 2018 so
this includes things like service fabric
kubernetes or anything that's kind of
deployed on the cloud and is related to
distributed systems this is obviously a
very in-demand skill so it's a skill a
lot of employers are looking for and
it's a skill that a lot of new
applications demand so in this tutorial
we'll look at both so as we said service
fabric provides both container
orchestration abilities similar to
something like kubernetes but also comes
with a built-in programming model which
helps developers quickly develop
distributed applications the programming
model allows us to develop stateful and
stateless services as well as api's and
services built on the actor model and
we'll go through each of these types of
services in this tutorial
series as well as looking how to run
independent container is using docker on
the service fabric cluster the tutorial
will assume the user has some knowledge
of c-sharp as well as Azure but in-depth
knowledge is not required and we'll be
using c-sharp azure and Visual Studio
2019 predominantly we also setup a multi
node cluster in the cloud and develop CI
CD pipelines to automate our deployment
in addition we also look at service
Arabic works with some other programming
languages like nodejs or Python and how
we can run on other operating systems
like Linux so in the next video we're
gonna look at how to install and set up
service fabric cluster locally on a
Windows machine so thanks for watching
the video guys if you enjoyed it please
keep watching and subscribe to the
channel
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