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AWS SQS queues & Kubernetes Autoscaling Pitfalls Stories
Eric Khun
October 26, 2020
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AWS SQS queues & Kubernetes Autoscaling Pitfalls Stories
Talk at the Cloud Native Computing Foundation meetup @dcard.tw
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October 26, 2020
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AWS SQS queues & Kubernetes Autoscaling Pitfalls Stories Cloud Native
Foundation meetup @dcard.tw @eric_khun
Make it work, Make it right, Make it fast kent
beck (agile manifesto - extreme programming)
Make it work, Make it right, Make it fast kent
beck (agile manifesto - extreme programming)
Make it work, Make it right, Make it fast kent
beck (agile manifesto - extreme programming)
Buffer
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Buffer • 80 employees , 12 time zones, all remote
Quick intro
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Main pipelines flow
it can look like ... golang Talk @Maicoin :
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How do we send posts to social medias?
A bit of history... 2010 -> 2012: Joel (founder/ceo) 1
cronjob on a Linode server $20/mo 512 mb of RAM 2012 -> 2017 : Sunil (ex-CTO) Crons running on AWS ElasticBeanstalk / supervisord 2017 -> now: Kubernetes / CronJob controller
AWS Elastic Beanstalk: Kubernetes:
At what scale? ~ 3 million SQS messages per hour
Different patterns for many queues
Are our workers (consumers of the SQS queues ) efficients?
Are our workers efficients?
Are our workers efficients?
Empty messages? > Workers tries to pull messages from SQS,
but receive “nothing” to process
Number of empty messages per queue
Sum of empty messages on all queues
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1,000,000 API calls to AWS costs 0.40$ We have 7,2B
calls/month for “empty messages” It costs ~$25k/year > Me:
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AWS SQS Doc
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Or in the AWS console
Results?
empty messages
AWS
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$120 > $50 saved daily > $2000 / month >
$25,000 / year (it’s USD, not TWD)
Paid for querying “nothing”
(for the past 8 years )
Benefits - Saving money - Less CPU usage (less empty
requests) - Less throttling (misleading) - Less containers > Better resources allocation: memory/cpu request
Why did that happen?
Default options
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Never questioning what’s working decently or the way it’s been
always done
What could have helped? Infra as code (explicit options /
standardization) SLI/SLOs (keep re-evaluating what’s important) AWS architecture reviews (taging/recommendations from aws solutions architects)
Make it work, Make it right, Make it fast
Make it work, Make it right, Make it fast
Do you remember?
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Need to analytics on Twitter/FB/IG/LKD… on millions on posts faster
workers consuming time
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What’s the problem?
Resources allocated and not doing anything most of the time
Developer trying to put find compromises on the number of workers
How to solve it?
Autoscaling! (with Keda.sh) Supported by IBM / Redhat / Microsoft
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Results
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But notice anything?
Before autoscaling
After autoscaling
After autoscaling
What’s happening?
Downscaling
Why?
delete pod lifecycle
what went wrong - Workers didn’t manage SIGTERM sent by
k8s - Kept processing messages - Messages were halfway processed and killed - Messages were sent back to the the queue again - Less workers because of downscaling
solution - When receiving SIGTERM stop processing new messages -
Set a graceful period long enough to process the current message if (SIGTERM) { // finish current processing and stop receiving new messages }
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And it can also help with sqs empty messages
Make it work, Make it right, Make it fast
Make it work, Make it right, Make it fast
Thanks!
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