Cloud-Native pattern support for MicroProfile

[Marouane Trabelsi]

Hello,

Despite having great support for many Cloud-Native patterns, would the MicroProfile specifications be limited to the one already defined at the time of this writing or does MicroProfile already plans to add more patterns and support for technologies that ease a Cloud-target container based applications development?

To give an example, orchestration / choreography are two patterns used widely in micro-service based architecture. While MicroProfile components can be composed together (for example used Reactive Messaging) to implement such patterns, a more standardized supported way of achieving this would be highly welcome (not only based on my experience but also based on some community feedback).

Another example would be a data processing pipeline abstraction such as Spring Cloud Data Flow that leverages Spring Cloud Stream (could be MicroProfile Reactive Messaging?).

[Emily Jiang]

MicroProfile strives to explore new ideas and new patterns. In MicroProfile program plan 2022, one of our top priority is to innovate with new specifications. One of the ideas is to establish Data Access Specification. We will kick off that effort very soon. Please register with microprofile googlegroup by visiting https://groups.google.com/g/microprofile to post your ideas or join the existing discussion. Please see this thread I created nearly 2 years ago.

[Emily Jiang]

As for orchestration/choreography patterns, we used it in MicroProfile LRA for microservice transactions. One of the implemenation ideas is to use an orchestror to manage all participants so that it can call complete or compensate actions based on the downstream actions.

[Marouane Trabelsi]

Hey Emily,

Thanks for you valuable insights as usual.

I am already aware of the LRA specification and I can see very promising in solving various business needs.

I joined the Google group to gain broader view on the ongoing efforts and why not get involved.

Thanks,