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Brendan Schwartz
February 13, 2015
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Metrics Matter
An overview of Pipedream and Snowbeast, our internal metrics services at Wistia.
Brendan Schwartz
February 13, 2015
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Transcript
I’m @brendan.
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Breadroutes S3 Primes Edgecast CDNetworks CDNs Bakery (Origin) Load Balancer
Temporary Storage Permanent Storage DNS Dyn
Things go wrong
Things go wrong
Support Ticket
Anything on fire?
Try to reproduce. Cannot reproduce.
Clear your cookies?
Long tail of problems Problems we can see Problems we
can reproduce Problems we can measure Problems we can’t see Problems we can’t reproduce Problems we can’t measure
Confession
Metrics Matter
1. HTTP POST ingest 2. Realtime subscription 3. Store all
data forever 4. Scale out
Pipedream
curl -d "some-message" \ https://pipedream/pub?topic=my-topic
Collector curl -d "some-message" \ https://pipedream/pub?topic=my-topic
NSQ Collector curl -d "some-message" \ https://pipedream/pub?topic=my-topic
NSQ Collector Consumer #topic-1 Consumer #topic-2 curl -d "some-message" \
https://pipedream/pub?topic=my-topic
NSQ Collector Archiver S3 Consumer #topic-1 Consumer #topic-2 curl -d
"some-message" \ https://pipedream/pub?topic=my-topic
Now what?
Snowbeast
Metrics.count('player/play')
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2 billion messages in the last month
Redis Sinatra Processor Angular & D3 NSQ #metrics Pipedream Snowbeast
Support Ticket
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$ wget https://pipedream/last_hour.log.gz $ gunzip last_hour.log.gz $ grep customer last_hour.log
> customer.log $ ruby tools/show-loading.rb customer.log
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Default to Flash
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Metrics Matter
1. Own your data. 2. Keep it simple. 3. Move
that line!
Long tail of problems
Long tail of problems
http:/ /bit.ly/wistia-video-puzzle
Thank you!