PHP-Queue with Windows Azure

Demo app for Windows Azure Service Bus Queue backend.

Part of my presentation at The Singapore Xmas Azure Workshop on 20 Dec 2012 (https://www.facebook.com/events/382258025194568/).

Sample code: https://github.com/miccheng/PHP-Queue-Windows-Azure-Queue-Demo

Transcript

1. PHP-Queue with Windows Azure A unified front-end for different queuing backends. 1 Thursday, 20 December, 12
2. Michael Cheng Senior Software Engineer, mig33 http://twitter.com/coderkungfu http://github.com/miccheng 2 Thursday, 20 December, 12
3. PHP-Queue https://github.com/miccheng/php-queue https://packagist.org/packages/coderkungfu/php-queue 3 Thursday, 20 December, 12
4. Example Web App Messaging Queue Worker Worker Worker Windows Azure Service Bus, Amazon SQS, IronMQ, Beanstalkd, Gearman, RabbitMQ, MSMQ 4 Thursday, 20 December, 12
5. Why PHP-Queue? • Its not easy implementing a messaging queue. • Which backend? Hosted/Self-host? • Learning curve - protocols, libraries. • Not responsive to changing use cases. • Vendor locked-in. 5 Thursday, 20 December, 12
6. Benefits of PHP-Queue • Backend agnostic. • Flexible job queue implementation. • 1 queue 1 type of jobs. • 1 queue many types of jobs. • Independent workers. Chainable. • Powerful. • REST server, CLI, daemons. 6 Thursday, 20 December, 12
7. • PHP is a first class citizen. • Documentation is very decent (lotsa examples). •Free 90 days trial! • Windows Azure PHP SDK is Composer compatible! • Continuous Deployment with Git 7 Thursday, 20 December, 12
8. • Web Sites • Virtual Machines • Mobile Services • Cloud Services • Big Data • Media 8 Thursday, 20 December, 12
9. Windows Azure Service Bus • Service Bus is messaging infrastructure that sits between applications allowing them to exchange messages in a loosely coupled way for improved scale and resiliency. Service Bus is managed and operated by Microsoft with a 99.9% monthly SLA. 9 Thursday, 20 December, 12
10. Demo Site • http://phpqueuedemo.azurewebsites.net/ • https://github.com/miccheng/PHP-Queue- Windows-Azure-Queue-Demo 10 Thursday, 20 December, 12
11. Components • Web Site • REST interface, Photo Gallery • Service Bus Queue • Messaging Queue • Blob Service • Photos • Virtual Machine • Photo Workers 11 Thursday, 20 December, 12
12. Simple Queue • REST interface • curl -XPOST http://phpqueuedemo.azurewebsites.net/ Noob/ -d "var1=foo&var2=bar" • curl -XPOST http://phpqueuedemo.azurewebsites.net/ Noob/?REQUEST_METHOD=PUT -d "t=meh" • CLI interface • php cli.php Noob add --data '{"name":"Dino Bing"}' • php cli.php Noob work 12 Thursday, 20 December, 12
13. SMS Worker Single Worker Job Queue Job Job Job Job Email Worker Runner SMS Worker Email Worker SMS Worker Email Worker Runner Runner Job 13 Thursday, 20 December, 12
14. Photo Gallery • Photo uploaded. • File uploaded as a Blob. • Pushed to Service Bus Queue. • Worker downloads blob, resize photos and uploads to CDN. • Appears in Gallery. 14 Thursday, 20 December, 12
15. Usage Model Job Queue Job Job Job Job UploadCDN PhotoResize Job 15 DownloadBlob Runner Thursday, 20 December, 12
16. Gallery Demo Site • http://phpqueuedemo.azurewebsites.net/gallery/ 16 Thursday, 20 December, 12
17. Best Practices • Use version control wisely, be careful what and when u commit. • Use environment variables for deployment specific settings. • Use a build script for post-commit changes, customize your deployment. • Web.config instead of .htaccess. 17 Thursday, 20 December, 12
18. Thank You. 18 Thursday, 20 December, 12
19. PHP-Queue https://github.com/miccheng/php-queue https://packagist.org/packages/coderkungfu/php-queue 19 Thursday, 20 December, 12