This document discusses a webMethods pattern for IBM's PureApplication system. It describes how Icon Solutions created a pattern for a large UK retailer that included webMethods Broker and Integration Server to run their point-of-sale system. The pattern allowed the system to automatically scale on PureApplication based on workload, providing a scalable and flexible platform for the retailer. The document also discusses how patterns in general can provide benefits like repeatable deployments, reduced manual intervention, and self-service capabilities.

1. The quest for a truly open platform
A customer experience using the webMethods
pattern for IBM’s PureApplication

2. Icon Solutions & 2PureApplication System

3. A key Partner for PureApplications
 Skilled PureApplication Practice
 Ex-IBMers who worked with PureApp during its development
 Provide Consultancy  Implementation  Ongoing support
 The Pattern leader
 Series of firsts: Internet Banking (award winning), MQ Broker,
WS Commerce, webMethods, Jboss, WebLogic, FTM and more !
 Leverage Patterns for DevOps
 Specialists in urbancode and Pure integration
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4. Exclusive to European
PureApplication & PureData customers
Co-owned by ING Direct and Icon Solutions
Why join?
• Share experiences with colleagues and experts from different companies
• Learn about future product directions from IBM
• Obtain greater knowledge on PureApplication, PureData and their related
technologies
• Explore best practices for architecture, development and support
www.europeanpureusergroup.com
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5. Today’s Talk
We’ll share with you
An overview of patterns in the context of
Hybrid cloud SDLC
A customer webMethods use-case
How the pattern took advantage of the
underlying platform
A demo of the webMethods pattern
automatically reacting, in real-time, to
load changes
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6. What’s in a Pattern
=
Modelling Flexibility
Governance
Clear route-to-live
‘Cookie-cutter’
Deployment Repeatability
Quick bring-up/tear-down
Potential for self-service
Policies
Less manual runtime
intervention
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7. Your
Topology
Product
Suites
Individual
Products
Ws Commerce,
FTM
Icon Solutions & PureApplication System
Your Personal,
Complex, Topology
WAS, DB2,
webMethods
The 3 Pattern
Levels

8. Software Delivery Challenges
Stagnant systems
Lack of cookie-cutter means systems are prized and go unused
Complexity of environments
Aged test environments
4x over-commit on one test environment
Dev Test  Prod differences
Route-To-Live not clear due to lack of ability to grow systems
SIT turn-around times
Days to clean-up used test environments
Test data loading times
8
Use-Case pain points addressed by Pure Patterns
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9. real Answers for real Problems
PATTERNS & ROUTE-TO-LIVE
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10. Route-to-Live
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11. Hybrid Route-to-Live
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Hi !

12. Cloud-Bursting
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13. Devops & Patterns
Dev
Test
Prod
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14. WEBMETHODS PATTERN
A Customer Use-Case
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15. Setting the scene
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The Client
Large UK Retailer
The Business Need
Interested In PureApplication
Believed in Converged Infrastructure
Needed a truly scalable platform
But, they wanted to feel confident that its benefits extend to their non-IBM
software (Software AG’s webMethods)
The Results
We delivered them a Pure Pattern running their POS system
Included webMethods Broker and Integration Server
Plus demo/testing framework
Plus full auto-scaling capabilities

16. Pure Patternisation Methods
Machine
“Snapshot”
• Tightly coupled
• Scripting for key
configurations
Modular
• Loosely coupled
• Re-usable scripts
• Re-usable intra
pattern and extra-pattern
“Purified”
• Logging available in
Pure Console
• Scaling policies
• Both client & server
• Manual or Auto
• Security policies
• License Management
• Sample Data
• Test clients
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17. Commissioning
Tuesday
Morning
• First telecon
• Asked to port
customers POS
system to Pure
Tuesday
Afternoon
• Up & Running
5 days later
• Test clients
• Fully integrated into PureApp
• PureApp logging
• Licence management
• Auto-scaling
• Upgrade paths
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18. VM
VM
webMethods ePOS
Architecture
Queue
WebMethods
Integration Server
VM
S
U
B
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webMethods
Broker
webMethods
Integration Server
P
U
B
Retail
Topic
Process Logic
Queue
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Client
Server
Productive
Events
Productive
Baskets
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Pattern

19. Scaling Strategies
Manual on-demand
Requires careful component/pattern design
Not policy based
Self-monitored (Ongoing Ops Effort !)
PureApplication can help here too
Static Policy
“give me 6 servers and keep it at that”
Elastic
Infrastructure based
“When the CPU goes above 90% for 1 minute add one to the cluster”
Latency/SLA based
I want the system to cope with 3 million msgs per second
– Please just “Make It So”
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20. What You’ll See
A demo of a PureApplication Pattern to show how auto
scaling is enabled to adapt to workload spikes.
Using the context of the retail scenario.
But the benefits will apply to any industry.
The auto-scaling could also be time based
E.g. “every Sunday night bring more servers on-line”
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21. LET’S TAKE A LOOK AT THE DEMO
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22. Click here to see this webmethods demo on youtube
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23. How Elastic Scaling helps you
Saves you overcommitting resources
Gives you peace of mind that your topology
can cater for peak loads
Saves you operational management
Code the policy versus manual
Scaling policies can be time based too
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24. What Icon can do for you..
Non-IBM & IBM patterns
Quickly & Cheaply
A non-IBM view on PureApp/SCO/SoftLayer
I need to discuss devops and Pure
I need a slick demonstration quickly
Post sales Pure services (or IBM PureStart)
Cloud Readiness Assessments (BVA)
(with non-IBM credibility)
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25. Thank you for Listening !
John Hawkins
Principal Consultant
John.Hawkins@IconSolutions.com
www.pure-revolution.co.uk
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