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Michael Nitschinger
April 23, 2015
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The Walking Dead - A Survival Guide to Resilient Reactive Applications
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Michael Nitschinger
April 23, 2015
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Transcript
Michael Nitschinger | Couchbase, Inc. The Walking Dead A Survival
Guide to Reactive Resilient Applications
the right Mindset 2
– U.S. Marine Corps “The more you sweat in peace,
the less you bleed in war.” 3
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Not so fast, mister fancy tests! 6
What can go wrong? Always ask yourself 7
Fault Tolerance 101 8
Fault Error Failure A fault is a latent defect that
can cause an error when activated. 9
Fault Error Failure Errors are the manifestations of faults. 10
Fault Error Failure Failure occurs when the service no longer
complies with its specifications. 11
Fault Error Failure Errors are inevitable. We need to detect,
recover and mitigate them before they become failures. 12
Reliability is the probability that a system will perform failure
free for a given amount of time. MTTF Mean Time To Failure MTTR Mean Time To Repair 13
Availability is the percentage of time the system is able
to perform its function. availability = MTTF MTTF + MTTR 14
Expression Downtime/Year Three 9s 99.9% 525.6 min Four 9s 99.99%
52.56 min Four 9s and a 5 99.995% 26.28 min Five 9s 99.999% 5.256 min Six 9s 99.9999% 0.5256 min 100% 0 15
Pop Quiz! Edge Service User Service Session Store Data Warehouse
Wanted: 99.99% Availability ??? ??? ??? 16
Pop Quiz! Edge Service User Service Session Store Data Warehouse
Wanted: 99.99% Availability 99.99% 17 99.99% 99.99%
Pop Quiz! Edge Service User Service Session Store Data Warehouse
Wanted: 99.99% Availability ~99.999% ~99.999% ~99.999% 18
Fault Tolerant Architecture 19
Units of Mitigation are the basic units of error containment
and recovery. 20
Escalation is used when recovery or mitigation is not possible
inside the unit. 21
Escalation 22 Cluster Node Node Service Service Service Service Service
Endpoint Endpoint Endpoint Endpoint Endpoint
Escalation 23 Cluster Node Node Service Service Service Service Service
Endpoint Endpoint Endpoint Endpoint Endpoint
Escalation 24 Cluster Node Node Service Service Service Service Service
Endpoint Endpoint Endpoint Endpoint Endpoint
Escalation 25 Cluster Node Node Service Service Service Service Service
Endpoint Endpoint Endpoint Endpoint Endpoint
Redundancy Cost Active/Active Active/Standby N+M Active/Passive Cost Time To Recover
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The Fault Observer receives system and error events and can
guide and orchestrate detection and recovery Unit Unit Observer Listener Listener Unit Unit 27
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Detecting Errors 30
A silent system is a dead system. 31
A System Monitor helps to study behaviour and to make
sure it is operating as specified. 32 http://cdn-www.airliners.net/aviation-photos/photos/9/2/1/0982129.jpg
https://github.com/Netflix/Turbine 33
Periodic Checking Heartbeats monitor tasks or remote services and initiate
recovery Routine Exercises prevent idle unit starvation and surface malfunctions 34
35 Encoder( Encoder( Ne*y( Writes( Ne*y( Reads( Decoder( Decoder( Event
on Idle No Traffic Endpoint
Riding over Transients is used to defer error recovery if
the error is temporary. “‘Patience is a virtue’ to allow the true signature of an error to show itself.” - Robert S. Hanmer 36
37 The Leaky Bucket
And more! • Complete Parameter Checking • Watchdogs • Voting
• Checksums • Routine Audits 38
Recovery and Mitigation of Errors 39
Timeout to not wait forever and keep holding up the
resource. 40 X
Failover to a redundant unit when the error has been
detected and isolated. Cost Active/Active Active/Standby N+M Cost Time To Recover Redundancy Reminder 41
Intelligent Retries Time between Retries Number of Attempts Fixed Linear
Exponential 42
Restart can be used as a last resort with the
trade-off to lose state and time. 43
Fail Fast to shed load and give a partial great
service than a complete bad one. Boundary 44
Backpressure & Batching! 45
Case Study: Hystrix https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wiki/Netflix/Hystrix/images/hystrix-flow-chart-original.png 46
And more! • Rollback • Roll-Forward • Checkpoints • Data
Reset Recovery Mitigation • Bounded Queuing • Expansive Controls • Marking Data • Error Correcting Codes 47
And more! • Rollback • Roll-Forward • Checkpoints • Data
Reset Recovery Mitigation • Bounded Queuing • Expansive Controls • Marking Data • Error Correcting Codes 48
Recommended Reading 49
Patterns for Fault-Tolerant Software by Robert S. Hanmer 50
Release It! by Michael T. Nygard 51
Announcement CB Server 4.0 dp! 52 http://blog.couchbase.com/introducing-developer-preview-for-couchbase-server-4.0
Any Questions? 53
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Thank you! 54