Sudhanva Huruli on the Open Application Model - Episode 68

This week on the podcast, Jeffrey Palermo is joined by Sudhanva Huruli, a Program Manager at Microsoft. He's currently a maintainer on the Open Application Model and has been at Microsoft now for 2 years. In the past, he's also worked on Microsoft's distributed systems platform (Service Fabric), led the effort for their Java developer offering, and helped design and build a product to provide visibility into the status of rollouts to any core Azure services.   In this episode, Jeffrey and Sudhanva explore the topic of the Open Application Model. Sudhanva explains what an OAM is, how it is different from a regular app, the major parts that make it up, the problems it solves, and what is on roadmap for the future of the OAM.   Topics of Discussion: [:39] Be sure to visit AzureDevOps.Show for past episodes and show notes! [:53] Jeffrey gives some quick announcements! [1:10] About today's episode! [1:25] Jeffrey welcomes Sudhanva Huruli to the show! [1:32] Sudhanva shares his career journey thus far. [3:01] Sudhanva explains how they think about the distributed systems platform architecturally and the core thinking behind OAM. [3:57] Sudhanva describes what exactly an Open Application Model (OAM) is. [4:42] How is the open app model different from how you'd describe a regular app? [6:35] What was the challenge that led to the genesis of the Open Application Mode? [9:03] Sudhanva defines OAM, spec, and implementation. [9:49] Is the spec available on GitHub? What's currently available? [10:22] How would developers create implementations? And what implementations are out there so far? [11:47] What are their plans with Azure? [12:55] Sudhanva provides "cliff notes" of the OAM spec for listeners and explains the three major parts: application scopes, the component model, and traits. [15:55] A word from Azure DevOps Podcast's sponsor: Clear Measure. [16:22] Jeffrey gives some brief announcements! [18:04] Jeffrey and Sudhanva give more clarification to the component that's within the OAM spec. [19:26] Jeffrey and Sudhanva reiterate the key points around the traits within the OAM spec. [20:46] Is OAM taking a step towards solving the problem of knowing the health scope of all the components within an application? If so, how? [28:56] Sudhanva highlights some of the big lessons and solutions that haven't been acted upon yet but are on the roadmap. [31:49] Sudhanva speaks about what their main goal is at the end of the day. [33:39] Sudhanva highlight some valuable resources for listeners. [36:05] Jeffrey thanks Sudhanva for joining the podcast.   Mentioned in this Episode: Azure DevOps Clear Measure (Sponsor) .NET DevOps Bootcamp 2020 — January 16th & 17th in Austin, T.X. .NET DevOps for Azure: A Developer's Guide to DevOps Architecture the Right Way, by Jeffrey Palermo — Available on Amazon! bit.ly/dotnetdevopsebook — Click here to download the .NET DevOps for Azure ebook! bit.ly/dotnetdevopsbookforcommunity — Visit to get your hands on two free books to give away at conferences or events! Jeffrey Palermo's Youtube Jeffrey Palermo's Twitter — Follow to stay informed about future events! [email protected] — Email Jeffrey for a free 30-point DevOps inspection (regularly priced at $5000!) — Spaces are limited! Sudhanva Huruli's LinkedIn Azure Service Fabric Mesh Alibaba Dapr Kubernetes OpenAppModel.io Cloud-Native App Platform (CNAP) Rust Cloud-Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) The Azure DevOps Podcast Ep: "Mark on Fussell on the Distributed Application Runtime on Dapr" aka.ms/msigniteondemand (Look for Mark Russinovich's Sessions) github.com/oam-dev   Want to Learn More? Visit AzureDevOps.Show for show notes and additional episodes.