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Etsy on Migrating to Kafka (in three short years)
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Hakka Labs
January 22, 2015
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Etsy on Migrating to Kafka (in three short years)
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Transcript
Migrating to Kafka in Three Short Years A look at
the choices that defined the Etsy analytics stack
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Path Dependence
Decisions made in the past limit options in the present,
even if the circumstances under which those past decisions were made are no longer relevant.
In other words, we can’t upgrade the Hadoop cluster until
we port all of the Cascading.jruby jobs to Scalding.
Sneak Preview ! 1. How Etsy built its original analytics
stack 2. Handling changes prepared us to rebuild our data pipeline 3. Kafka!
Starting from scratch
Choice #1 ! Acquire Adtuitive
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Before you can work on search, you need real analytics
Choice #2 ! Build a zero-impact analytics stack
Etsy is not a cloud company but the first analytics
stack was cloud-based
(illustration here) browser CDN EMR S3 mysql FTP
Legacy effects: ! 24 hour latency on events 48 hour
latency on visits
Choice #3 ! Cascading.jruby
Hadoop Cascading Cascading.jruby
Choice #4 ! Use GA _utma cookie to define visits
Benefits: ! •Simpler ETL •Visits computed on the client side
•Easy to reconcile against Google Analytics
Choice #5 ! Using existing feature library for A/B tests
Leveraged existing experience with operational ramp-ups
Low impact: just required a logging change
Choice #6 ! Build analytics stack around visit-level metrics
Great for search and ads, less great for measuring engagement
Changing the tires without stopping the car
How do we instrument the iOS app? Summer 2012
1. Native app visits should have the same structure as
Web visits
2. Native app events should use the existing data pipeline
3. The native app should buffer events and send them
when convenient
Solution: ! 1. App uploads bundles of events to API
endpoint 2. Backend event logger curls the beacon for every event
Side effect: ! We have a backend event logger that
is now used all over the place
CDN diversification project Fall 2012
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Migrated to our own beacon infrastructure
Data pipeline based on Apache, PHP, logrotate, and cron
We built our own Hadoop cluster: Etsydoop Fall 2012
We hired the Scalding guy Fall 2012
Hadoop Cascading Cascading.jruby Scalding
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Uh oh, the Google Analytics JS hurts performance Fall 2012
The event logger’s GA dependency precluded async loading, hurting performance
First idea: duplicate the _utma functionality in our own code
The trouble with backend events
Visit Time Logger Event Type 1 12:01 frontend home 1
12:03 backend login 1 12:03 frontend view listing 1 1:31 backend logout 2 1:31 frontend view listing 2 1:32 frontend search 2 1:33 frontend view listing wrong visit
Complete rewrite of our ETL jobs Spring/Summer 2013
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Backend page-view events Fall 2013
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2014: the next phase
EventPipe goals
Use POST rather than multiple GET requests to prevent data
loss
Use JSON rather than query strings for comprehensibility
Validate beacon data before it enters the data pipeline
Use a binary serialization format for long-term storage
Use Kafka for data transfer to escape the batch paradigm
Eliminate individual beacon servers as points of failure
How do we handle the impedance mismatch between Apache/PHP and
Kafka?
Wrote a server in Go to serialize beacons in Thrift
and send them to Kafka
Use Apache for SSL termination
Still to come
Real-ish time ETL
Streaming infrastructure
Offline processing for more products
Other Kafka applications
Takeaways
Every choice you make has long-term implications
Fixing stuff creates new opportunities
@rafeco http://rc3.org