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Theo Hultberg
December 04, 2012
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Learning to Build Distributed Systems the Hard Way
Presentation held at JDays 4 December, 2012
Theo Hultberg
December 04, 2012
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LEARNING TO BUILD DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS THE HARD WAY @iconara
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MAKING THIS
INTO THIS
HOW HARD CAN IT BE?
None
30K REQUESTS PER SECOND more than a billion requests per
day, over 1 TB raw data
ONE VISIT CAN CHANGE UP TO 100K COUNTERS hundreds of
millions of individual counters per day, plus counting uniques and visitor histories
IN REAL TIME or near real time, if you want
to be pedantic ×
HOW HARD CAN IT BE?
START WITH TWO OF EVERYTHING going from one to two
is the hardest, solve the scaling problem up front
START WITH TWO OF EVERYTHING you’ll solve the scaling problem,
and need less overcapacity THREE
GIVE A LOT OF THOUGHT TO KEYS AND IDS and
think about your queries first
MEIHO0 JME57Z monotonically increasing, sorts nicely a timestamp something random
JME57Z MEIHO0 uniformly distributed, works nicely with sharding something random
a timestamp
CONSISTENCY IS OVERRATED don’t fear R + W < N
PRECOMPUTE ALL THE THINGS your users most likely don’t know
what they want, so why let them do ad hoc queries?
SEPARATE PROCESSING FROM STORAGE that way you can scale each
independently
PLAN HOW TO GET RID OF YOUR DATA deleting stuff
is harder than you might think × × × × × × ×
NoDB keep things streaming ×
DIVIDE THE LOAD big data systems are all about routing
and partitioning
RANDOM when you have no interdependencies between things it’s easy
to scale out
CONSISTENT when there are interdependencies you need to route using
some property of the objects, but make sure you get a uniform distribution
NUMEROLOGY
12
2 | 12 3 | 12 4 | 12 6
| 12
8 | 24 5 | 60
A DIVERSION ABOUT COUNTING TO 60 the reason why there’s
60 seconds to a minute, and 360 degrees to a circle × ×
3 SEGMENTS ON EACH FINGER = 12
3 SEGMENTS ON EACH FINGER = 12 FIVE FINGERS ON
OTHER HAND = 60
12, 60, 120, 360 superior highly composite numbers
12, 60, 120, 360 superior highly composite numbers
12, 60, 120, 360 superior highly composite numbers
12, 60, 120, 360 superior highly composite numbers
12, 60, 120, 360 superior highly composite numbers
12, 60, 120, 360 superior highly composite numbers
12, 60, 120, 360 superior highly composite numbers
12, 60, 120, 360 superior highly composite numbers
12, 60, 120, 360 superior highly composite numbers
12, 60, 120, 360 superior highly composite numbers
12, 60, 120, 360 superior highly composite numbers
12, 60, 120, 360 superior highly composite numbers
use multiples of 12 to scale without always having to
double
BLAH BLAH BLAH use multiples of 12 to scale without
always having to double
log2(366) ≈ 31
$-$ (ASCII code 36)-----
log2(366) ≈ 31
log2(366) ≈ 31 six characters 0-9, A-Z can represent 31
bits, which is kind of almost very close to four bytes
MEIHO0
MEIHO0 a timestamp Time.now.to_i.to_s(36).upcase
None
YOU CAN’T SCALE TO REAL TIME and don’t trust code
that doesn’t run continuously ×
DO YOU REALLY NEED A BACKUP? if you got 3x
replication over multiple availability zones, is that backup really worth it?
PRODUCTION IS THE ONLY REAL TEST ENVIRONMENT when thousands of
things happen every second, new, weird and unforeseen things happen all the time, your tests can only cover the foreseeable =
GÖTEBORG, DISTRIBUTED @gbgdistr
KTHXBAI @iconara github.com/iconara architecturalatrocities.com burtcorp.com