Necessary Performance Measures: npm at Scale

Talk on caching and distribution at MelbJS meetup in Melbourne, Australia

1. Necessary Performance Measures: at Scale Brought to you by @rockbot
2. Package Management for Node.js • The Open Source Dream ! • ~70k packages • up to 10 million downloads/ day
3. 221,845,731) !10,000!! !20,000!! !30,000!! !40,000!! !50,000!! !60,000!! !70,000!! !80,000!! !90,000!! !-!!!! !10,000,000!! !20,000,000!! !30,000,000!! !40,000,000!! !50,000,000!! !60,000,000!! !70,000,000!! !80,000,000!! !90,000,000!! !100,000,000!! !110,000,000!! !120,000,000!! !130,000,000!! !140,000,000!! !150,000,000!! !160,000,000!! !170,000,000!! !180,000,000!! !190,000,000!! !200,000,000!! !210,000,000!! !220,000,000!! !230,000,000!! !240,000,000!! 8/29/12! 12/7/12! 3/17/13! 6/25/13! 10/3/13! 1/11/14! 4/21/14! Downloads)of)npm)packages)in)previous)month)) &)Total)number)of)npm)Packages)of)node.js)code) !!!Downloads!of!npm!packages!in!previous!month! !!!Total!Number!of!npm!Packages!
4. Performance = Perception • Best request vs worst request • Focus on the few, super-slow instances: improve performance like whoa ! • Caching vs Distribution
5. Caching
6. Data Layer Query Caching Database-level performance enhancements ! innoDB buffer pool, CouchDB’s ACID architecture
7. Query Layer Save CPU Preprocessed/aggregated data; scheduled handling of data ! CouchDB views, Download Counts
8. App Layer Per-User Data that doesn’t change per user ! Storing user session data in Redis
9. Edge Server Layer Centralized/Global CDN, static assets ! Fastly
10. Client Layer Distributed HTTP headers, local storage, etc. ! Browser caching
11. Distribution
12. Split Load More boxes, more specialized boxes read-only, write-only ! One process per box Redis, CouchDB, ElasticSearch
13. Add Resiliency Multi-cloud, multi-zone East/West, multiple datacenters ! Fallback to least effort/ most common usage i.e. read-only
14. Boost with Third-Party Services Global content distribution network CDN
15. The End?
16. Thank You! ! Raquel Vélez @rockbot raquel@ js.com