The document discusses Dell's adoption of Spring Boot and Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) for its e-commerce platform. It describes how Dell transformed its technology foundation to be cloud-native using microservices, Spring, and PCF. It also details Dell's evaluation of different technologies like Spring Cloud Dataflow and Apache Camel for integration and highlights tips for adopting Spring and leveraging PCF.

1. Learnings from adopting Spring Boot and
PCF for Dell.com's e-commerce
By –
Nandini Agarwal
Malini Bhattacharjee

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Introduction
Nandini Agarwal,
Software Engineer,
Dell EMC Dojo, Bangalore
Malini Bhattacharjee,
Product Manager,
Dell EMC Dojo, Bangalore

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Agenda
 Why Transformation
 Our Foundation
 Double Clicking on Technology
o What were we looking for
o Spring in our World
o The PAAS Story
 Some Tips
 Questions

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The world is moving at jet speed, and the view
ahead is different from what lies behind!

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• 66% of customers would rather find
items by themselves through a digital
device than work with a sales associate
• m-commerce will reach $284 billion,
or 45% of the total U.S. e-commerce
market, by 2020
• Augmented Reality (AR) market
should amount to $ 120 billion, where
the electronic commerce shall take up
to 30% or $40B

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People – The Balanced Team
“The 2 pizza team!”
• 1 Product Manager
• 1 Product Designer
• 2 – 4 pairs of developers

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Process – Delivering value continuously
• A Cohesive Digital Ecosystem
focused on customers’ needs
• Continuous value driven delivery
– short release cycles
• Pair programming, TDD
• Continuous discovery, customer
success the guiding KPI

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Technology – Harnessing the power of Dell tech stack
• Global standardized
architecture to transform
commerce
• Cloud native
microservices
• Pivotal Technology
(Spring, PCF)
• Dell Infrastructure

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Double Click

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Big Challenge
“I would like to see a full unconditional
embrace of it (the Pivotal way)
immediately”
Why
Value
Velocity
Quality
What How
Teams
Balanced
Trained

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What were we looking for in a framework?
• Support for e-commerce platform
• Means to head towards our goals
• Easy to learn
• Abides by Lean principles
• Test Driven Development not a nightmare

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in our World

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• Out of the Box DB Access
• Graph Repository
• Neo4j Template
• Flexibility

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• Stream/Batch Execution
• Transformation and Routing
• Concurrency
• Efficient Scaling
• Security and Monitoring

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SCDF Study
Criteria Spring Cloud Dataflow
SCDF
Apache Camel Mule Preferred
Architecture Spring cloud dataflow is the latest offering from
Pivotal and is targeted for the data/application
integration and event processing platform,
supporting Cloud natively
Camel is very popular and light
weight open source EAI library from
Apache and works as an embedded
library in the application container.
Mule is full-blown ESB from mule soft
and has wide
SCDF
EIP Support: Enterprise Integration Patterns
defines the standard
Built in patterns available for: Filter, Transformer,
Bridge, Enricher, Aggregator, Splitter
However platform provides API to extend this set.
Vast built in support of patterns Extensive support CAMEL
Spring Ready: Yes
By design.
Integrates very well with spring. Supports SCDF
Cloud Native: Yes
Designed on Microservices model and has native
support for Cloud.
Does not have built in native support
but community & platform offerings
are available
By design not a cloud native solution
but platform is extended to support
cloud.
SCDF
PCF Readiness Yes No, but can be easily included Available as a market place service SCDF
Protocols/ Connector (EAI support)/Data-
Formats
Fair Support
Data formats: JSON/XML
Extensive support Vast support MULE
Domain Specific Language Simple and based on the unix pipes Very good DSL Good CAMEL
Operational/Deployment Complexity Complex Easy Complex CAMEL
Product Documentation and Forums Limited still evolving. Good Excellent MULE
Complexity/Ease of Use Moderate complexity coupled with PCF deployment
and has deep learning curve.
Easy Umbrella install, (TBD: PCF usage is
not tested as a service )
CAMEL

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Criteria Spring Cloud Dataflow
SCDF
Apache Camel Mule Preferred
Visual Modelling/Tooling Fair support using dashboard Flo editor No built-in support however 3rd
parties are providing.
Excellent studio is available for
modelling and testing in IDE
MULE
Performance Moderate, However the horizontal scaling on PCF
yields vast through put processing.
Very light weight and fast. Moderate CAMEL
Error Handing Good Excellent Excellent SCDF
Fault Tolerance & Retry Mechanism Excellent support and well documented Application strategy TBD SCDF
Popularity & Adoption in enterprises Still in adoption , however Spring cloud and Batch
are vastly used platforms.
Vast adoption Enterprise friendly MULE
Scalability Scales on cloud scale with PCF Limited to application scaling and
effort required to identify and gauge
the traffic
By Clustering (TBD) SCDF
Security Authentication: OAuth2/LDAP/Custom
HTTPS supported
Excellent in-transit and payload
security.
Excellent CAMEL
Monitoring Has built in analytical engine for monitoring and
alerting.
Limited
Avielle from 3rd Parties
Excellent monitoring and alerting
support
MULE
Cost/Commercial Support Free Free Paid CAMEL
Stability TBD, still evolving. Good Excellent MULE
Extensibility
Batch & Stream/Realtime/Event support
Good Good Limited to the platform SCDF
Maintainability Moderate Easy Complex CAMEL
Transaction Support Spring Supported
(TBD)
Programmatic (TBD) Built-in and Excellent MULE
SCDF Study

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• Automation Tools
• Common SAAS Patterns
• Config Management,
Service Discovery,
Routing, Logging, etc.

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The PAAS Story
Applications on PCF
IAAS Independent
SCDF on PCF

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Some Tips
 Choose your technology wisely - Spikes and POCs help
 Keep moving things to production from Day One
 Spring
 Too much of abstraction
 Debugging is tricky sometimes
 Extensible
 Great Community Support
 Consumers can be contributors
 Leverage full potential of PCF

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Just the Beginning!

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Appendix

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Data Intake Architecture
EMC
DELL
…
DESTINATION
PIPELINES
PCF
SECURITY MONITORING
EXCEPTION
MANAGEMENT
STREAM / BATCH
EXECUTION
TRANSFORMATION & ROUTING
ADAPTERS
CACHING CONCURRENCY