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Bryce "BonzoESC" Kerley
March 07, 2014
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Growing Distributed Systems
Ruby on Ales, Mar. 7 2014
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Transcript
Growing Distributed Systems
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Hello Bryce Kerley @bonzoesc basho
Distributed Systems What even are they?
Distributed Systems
Distributed Systems Always Broken
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Distributed Systems Light Cones
Mutual visibility Soldier Fires Sniper Fires
Distributed Systems A distributed system is one in which the
failure of a computer you didn’t even know existed can render your own computer unusable. Lamport, 1987
Distributed Systems •Rules and Theory •Inconsistency and Unavailability •Distributed Rails
Byzantine Generals No Right Answer
Criticality •Amazon S3, July 2008 •GitHub, Dec. 2012 •Northeast US,
2003
Murphy’s Law at Scale •Backblaze •Gears of War 2
CAP Theorem Consistency Availability Partition tolerance
Rules, Theory, and Practice Compromise
Distributed Systems •Rules and Theory •Inconsistency and Unavailability •Distributed Rails
CAP Theorem lose Consistency or Availability during Partitions
CP Systems Zookeeper
Unavailability Don’t fill requests
Unavailability
AP Systems Riak
Inconsistency Accept writes Perform reads
Inconsistency
Hybrid Multiple Stores
Hybrid Where It Counts
Hybrid Riak 2 Strong Consistency
Distributed Systems •Rules and Theory •Inconsistency and Unavailability •Distributed Rails
Distributed Rails You’re Already Distributed
Distributed Rails Rails
Distributed Rails Rails Web DB
Distributed Rails SQL Rules
Distributed Rails NoSQL No Rules
Distributed Rails Temptation
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Distributed Rails Service Oriented Architecture
Service Oriented Extract Parts
Service Oriented Documented Protocols
Service Oriented Smaller Deployments
Testing Unit Tests
Testing Service Tests
Testing Acceptance Tests
Testing Refactoring [GitHub] with Science Wynn Netherland, Big Ruby, Feb.
2014
Offline Apps Latency Garbage Collection Packet loss Airplane rides Local
internet
Offline Apps Smarter clients
Offline Apps You’re Already Doing It
Offline Strategies Conflicts
Offline Strategies Operational Transform
Offline Strategies Git
Offline Strategies Vesper
Distributed Systems •Rules and Theory •Inconsistency and Unavailability •Distributed Rails
Ruby Works
Make Something Awesome
Grow When You Need To
Thanks Bryce Kerley @bonzoesc
[email protected]
http://bitly.com/roa-dist
Bonus Slides
Harvest & Yield Harvest: fraction of data Yield: probability of
success
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NoSQL and Rails SQL ACID
NoSQL and Rails Atomicity Consistency Isolation Durability
NoSQL and Rails NoSQL BASE
NoSQL and Rails Basically Available Soft-state Eventually consistent
Why Extract? Break coupling Easier deploys Simpler responsibility Forced abstraction
Prevent introspection Standardization Flexible backends
Offline Libraries Breeze PouchDB Lawnchair
Must Watch Jeff Hodges “Practicalities of Productionizing Distributed Systems” youtu.be/BKqgGpAOv1w