Effective Node.js Architectures

Talk kicking off the new Geeklist San Francisco Meetup Series.
http://www.meetup.com/Geeklist-San-Francisco-Meetup-Series/events/110490112/

Note that even though it is April 1st, I exercised amazing restraint and did not have one April Fools joke.

Ustream recording: http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/30764037

Transcript

1. Effective Node.js Architectures @dshaw
2. Daniel D. Shaw @dshaw
3. I like to build things with Node
4. Build Node Things • Storify • Spreecast • Node Knockout • Voxer • The Node Firm
5. Do Less Well
6. FP for Distributed Architectures
7. What do I do? - your processes
8. Evolutionary Shapes • ALL THE THINGS! • Generalization • Specialization • One Thing
9. ALL THE THINGS Mixture
10. ALL THE THINGS Easy to run, multi-process, single execution point.
11. Generalization Not all apps need to aspire to be the next Facebook.
12. Scale Will you really need it?
13. Building and Planning Node.js application
14. Generalization • Express + Socket.io + API • Website + API • Restify
15. Am I doing too much?
16. Trade-offs
17. Trade-offs • Expensive loads limit conjoined services. • Impact of exceptions and crashes. • Deployment complexity. • Deployment isolation. • Evolve services independently.
18. Dumb Clusters Simple Pooling
19. Dumb Cluster • Static file server • Simple web sites • Minimal client/server • API server hosts
20. Pooling Tools • Round Robin DNS • Varnish • Nginx • HAProxy • ...more node
21. Pooling Tools • Substack - seaport, etc • Nodejitsu - node-http-proxy • Poolee - battle tested at Voxer
22. Distribute Load Data store(s) have the definitive answers
23. Smarter Clusters Session Affinity
24. Sticky Sessions
25. Sticky Sessions Resources • 3rd party infrastructure • HAProxy • nginx • stud-proxy - Mikeal
26. Smart Clusters (Consistent Hash Rings)
27. Why? Complex interactions or data persistence
28. Properties of Consistent Hash Rings • Deterministic • Change has minimal impact on determinism • Crunchy middle?
29. House of Pain Complexity
30. Consistent Hash Ring Resources • node-hashring - 3rdEden • node-hash-ring - Brian Noguchi, C++, dated • Build your own
31. Right for the Task As simple as possible
33. Thank You! <3 dshaw