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Kalan MacRow
December 10, 2013
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Shellac: a distributed web accelerator
Shellac is an HTTP/1.1 distributed caching proxy for Linux.
Kalan MacRow
December 10, 2013
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Transcript
Shellac A distributed web accelerator. Kalan MacRow Data at Scale
‘13
Shellac. (noun) Lac bug resin melted into thin flakes, used
for making varnish Kalan MacRow Data at Scale ‘13
Shellac. (verb) To defeat or beat (someone) decisively Kalan MacRow
Data at Scale ‘13
5.2% of the top 10,000 sites. Kalan MacRow Data at
Scale ‘13
Kalan MacRow Data at Scale ‘13 ! Script interpreters 50+
SQL queries Localization Personalization Template rendering …. ! 3 sec.
• HTTP/1.1 proxy server for Linux 2.5+ • Distributed RAM
cache built on Memcached • Level-triggered edge-polling architecture • 1K lines of Python Kalan MacRow Data at Scale ‘13 Design
Kalan MacRow Data at Scale ‘13 “The key to making
programs fast is to make them do practically nothing” — Mike Haertel, original author of GNU grep Design
Kalan MacRow Data at Scale ‘13 • I/O bound and
largely avoids the GIL • Substantial function/method/syscall call overhead • Iteration with while, for expensive • Event dispatch really suffers, but… Design
Load Balancer Web Server Accelerator Cache Web Server Accelerator Cache
Web Server Accelerator Cache Typical HA Kalan MacRow Data at Scale ‘13
Shellac HA Kalan MacRow Data at Scale ‘13 Load Balancer
Web Server Shellac Web Server Shellac Web Server Shellac Cache Dedicated Cache
Kalan MacRow Data at Scale ‘13 • Interested in performance
both • as a proxy / load balancer • as a caching proxy / accelerator • Graphs: best of Apache, Varnish and worst for Shellac over 3 runs Evaluation
Kalan MacRow Data at Scale ‘13 • 4 x m1.large
instances (4 core Xeon, 8GB) • Elastic Load Balancer • Master for running benchmarks • One availability zone, one region
Kalan MacRow Data at Scale ‘13 Evaluation Apache Benchmark (-n
10k -c 1000)
Evaluation Kalan MacRow Data at Scale ‘13 Apache Benchmark (-n
10k -c 1000)
Evaluation Kalan MacRow Data at Scale ‘13 Apache Benchmark (-n
10k -c 1000)
Kalan MacRow Data at Scale ‘13 Static Dynamic 1 Dynamic
2 Requests / sec. (mean) Evaluation 10K requests, 1K clients
Static Dynamic 1 Dynamic 2 Transfer Rate (KB/s) Kalan MacRow
Data at Scale ‘13 Evaluation 10K requests, 1K clients
Static Dynamic 1 Dynamic 2 Peak Memory Usage (MB) Kalan
MacRow Data at Scale ‘13 Evaluation
Kalan MacRow Data at Scale ‘13 Conclusions • Shellac 0.1.0a
is competitive • as a proxy / load balancer • as a caching proxy / accelerator • A C port might shellac Varnish!
Future • HTTP/1.1 compliance • Try with PyPy JIT’ing, eventually
port to C • Binary format for cache entries • Tighter integration of cache node with proxy Kalan MacRow Data at Scale ‘13
https://github.com/kmacrow/Shellac Kalan MacRow Data at Scale ‘13