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Amjith
May 12, 2018
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How Netflix does Failovers in 7 minutes
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Cloud Prod Engineering AMJITH RAMANUJAM (@amjithr) Sr. Software Engineer, Traffic
Team
Regional Failover in 7 minutes AMJITH RAMANUJAM (@amjithr) Sr. Software
Engineer, Traffic Team
Regional Standby system takes over when the main system fails
Failover
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Amazon Web Services Everything else Netflix Open Connect All video
delivery
Regional Failover
Christmas Eve 2012
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ELB Outage 7 Hours
16,000 years in 1 day content watched ~14,000 BC: First
colonization of America 2018 0 AD 4,600 years in 7 hours
Regional Failover
Active - standby system is also serving traffic Active vs
Passive Passive - standby system is NOT serving traffic
Stateless services Prerequisites Regional replication of data
Infrastructure problem isolated to one region Failover Candidate Problem won’t
follow if we move traffic Bad code deploy in a region
Detect the problem Regional Failover Process Scale the savior regions
Shift traffic
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Detect the problem
Is it working?
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One metric to rule them all - Dumbledore
SPS Stream Starts Per Second
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Scale Saviors
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Scaling Pattern Linear Regression
Shift Traffic
Proxy Traffic Traffic Shift Switch DNS
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Detect the problem - 5 minutes Regional Failover Process Scale
the savior regions - 35 minutes Shift traffic - 10 minutes Total = 45 mins
Nimble Goals • Fast failover (<10mins) ◦ Pre-scale • Transparent
to service owners ◦ No code changes for service owners ◦ No auto-scaling changes
API lolomo nccp Playready us-west
API lolomo nccp nimble_API nimble_lolomo nimble_nccp Playready nimble_Playready us-west
API lolomo nccp nimble_API nimble_lolomo nimble_nccp Playready nimble_Playready us-west
API lolomo nccp nimble_API nimble_lolomo nimble_nccp starting starting starting starting
Playready nimble_Playready us-west
Failover API lolomo nccp Playready nimble_API nimble_Playready nimble_lolomo nimble_nccp
Failover API lolomo nccp Playready nimble_API nimble_Playready nimble_lolomo nimble_nccp
Failover API lolomo nccp Playready nimble_API nimble_Playready nimble_lolomo nimble_nccp
Failover API lolomo nccp nimble_API nimble_lolomo nimble_nccp Playready nimble_Playready
Detect the problem - 2 minutes Regional Failover Process Scale
the savior regions - 4 minutes Shift traffic - 3 minutes Total = 7 mins
Architecture
Actions Periodic Tasks Triggered Tasks
Periodic Tasks Fetch historical data Predict cluster sizes Manage dark
clusters
Triggered Tasks Ungate dark instances Transplant instances Traffic shift
Nanoservices Python Flask RQ - Redis
Characteristics Anticipate Failure Eventually Consistent Garbage Collect
Anticipate Failure Multi-region Rebuild state from scratch Fallbacks
Fallbacks AWS State - EDDA Historical data - ATLAS Local
Cache - Redis, Filesystem
Eventual Consistency AWS is eventually consistent Favor idempotent actions
Orphan Cleaner • Terminate detached instances • Safety features ◦
Terminate slowly ◦ Don’t terminate large volume of instances
FAQs How often do you failover? Why not have dark
clusters take traffic? How much did Nimble cost?
Suggestions Fallbacks, Fallbacks, Fallbacks Exercise it often Provide visibility
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