Service fabric
Gopal Kakivaya, Xun Lu, Richard Hasha, Shegufta Bakht Ahsan, Todd Pfleiger, Rishi Sinha, Anurag Gupta, Mihail Tarta, Mark Fussell, Vipul Modi, Mansoor Mohsin, Ray Kong, Anmol Ahuja, Oana Platon, Alex Wun, Matthew G. Snider, Chacko Daniel, Dan Mastrian, Li Yang, A. Vasudeva Rao · 2018
We describe Service Fabric (SF), Microsoft's distributed platform for building, running, and maintaining microservice applications in the cloud. SF has been running in production for 10+ years, powering many critical services at Microsoft. This paper outlines key design philosophies in SF. We then adopt a bottom-up approach to describe low-level components in its architecture, focusing on modular use and support for strong semantics like fault-tolerance and consistency within each component of SF. We discuss lessons learned, and present experimental results from production data.