Scale at Airbrake

A presentation from Boston.io

Transcript

1. SCALE AT AIRBRAKE by Ben Arent
2. The web apps are broken.
4. RUBY → SCALA
5. Is it
   Ruby or Rails
   fault?
6. nope.
   All the other errors
   
7. How can you learn
   about errors?
9. Rise of PaaS Platform as a Service.
   difficult to scale
   &
   build
   error free apps.
10. Logs?
11. gem exception_notifier
12. killed inbox
13. enter...
    Hoptoad / Exceptional (Now Airbrake)
14. http://airbrake.io
15. If an error happens on airbrake,
    who gets the error?
16. scale
17. scale our story of scaling.
18. Dedicated Hosting 2010 ~ Early 2011
    
19. No queue, DB Cap, locking at peak load.
20. To the cloud.
21. Heroku
22. Heroku+ AWS
23. Network issues,
    Heroku downtime,
    SQS queues,
    Redis,
    GoLang API
24. K.I.S.S
25. GoLang, SQS, S3, RDS
26. Which part of our core tech should we scale?
27. features.
    Mobile App
    Responsive
    Commenting
    Activity Feed
    Team members
    Notifications
    De-Dupe
    Integrations
    Search
    Git-Blame
    Read API
    
28. Search & Insight
29. Google Compute
    Big Table
    2013 - 3 month spike
    
30. Search & Insight
31. Search & Insight
32. features.
    Mobile App
    Responsive
    Commenting
    Activity Feed
    Team members
    Notifications
    De-Dupe
    Integrations
    Search
    Git-Blame
    Read API
    
33. Notifications & Uptime
34. 20 ~ 30% growth in errors
    600 million errors a month
    20 million email notifications
35. SERVERS
36. Chef
    for server automation.
37. Chef
    for server automation.
38. Ansible
    for server automation.
39. Q4 to Now
40. Scale out...
    search
    graphing
    
41. Global LB
    Multi AZ
    Autoscale
    SOA
    
42. http://cl.ly/image/373t2O1z1g0S
43. technical scaling
    is just
    the start.
44. Scale support,
    sales,
    team,
    HR
    ...
45. Thank you.
    @airbrake - @benarent ben.arent@rackspace.com
    Q&A?