Systems Integration - The OpenStack Success Story

Explore the success story of OpenStack's systems integration in this 40-minute conference talk from EuroPython 2014. Delve into the strategies adopted by OpenStack to maintain a Shared Nothing Architecture while effectively integrating services and sharing data without compromising performance. Learn about distributed system integration methods applicable to cloud infrastructures and enterprise services, with a focus on fault-tolerance and replica determinism. Examine the state-of-the-art integration solutions, their benefits, and ongoing developments in the field. Gain insights into messaging, remote procedure calls, scaling brokers, memory footprint optimization, versioning, explicit architecture, design by contract, service isolation, and avoiding cycles between services. Discover how these principles can be applied to create scalable and successful distributed systems beyond OpenStack.