Deconstructing Scale

Scaling APIs is a topic that doesn't get as much love as it deserves, and when we talk about it, we use arbitrary generalizations to describe it. We need a way of determining if our APIs will scale objectively. Loader.io is a project from SendGrid labs that helps us do just that.

This presentation was given at API Days in Madrid. Special thanks to the Noun Project for the icons.

Transcript

1. SCALE DECONSTRUCTING
2. BUILD APIS
3. AWESOME API DEVELOPERS
4. DOES YOUR API SCALE?
5. NOTE: I’m not Ryan Gosling @SwiftAlphaOne
6. SCALE When we say what does that even mean? “ ”
7. Increase your capacity for doing X SCALE /skāl/
8. In 2 hours, I can eat 3 tapas.
9. In 2 hours, I can eat 4 tapas. If I bike for 1 hour first
10. In 2 hours, I can eat 4 tapas. If I run for 1/2 hour first
11. Increase your capacity for doing X SCALE /skāl/
12. Increase your capacity for doing X SCALE /skāl/ while minimizing the resources required to actually do it
13. Maximum API Requests Servers We can’t afford this many servers
14. DOES YOUR API SCALE?
15. Well, our API is written in ruby - Some Developer Somewhere so it must scale, right?
16. Well, our API is written in python - Some Developer Somewhere so it must scale, right?
17. Well, our API is written in node.js - Some Developer Somewhere so it must scale, right?
18. Well, our API is written in language x - Some Developer Somewhere so it must scale, right?
19. FUNNY Smells a bit
20. LIVE WE’LL DO IT
21. 3 60 4 40 Evangelists Employees Billion Monthly Emails Billion Total Emails March 2012
22. 6 140 8 115 Evangelists Employees Billion Monthly Emails Billion Total Emails June 2013
23. NOT BAD
24. EXIT DEVELOPERS WON’T WAIT FOR YOU TO SCALE
25. MEASURE TEST DEPLOY
26. Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live “ ” - John F. Woods code maintaining code
27. Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live “ ” - John F. Woods test consuming API
28. LOAD TEST? How do you
29. Quitting is easy, I’ve done it thousands of times “ ” - Who the hell knows
32. Create tests easily!
33. REST PLAYS NICE WITH
34. Cycling Non-Cycling and Two kinds of tests
35. WEB APP?
36. Do we look like noobs?
37. POST /tests GET /tests GET /tests/{id} GET /tests/{id}/results PUT /tests/{id}/stop
38. FREE BEER (as in)
39. 3.5 16 7,500 Billion Connections Terabytes of Data Apps Tested June 2013 35,000 Tests Performed
41. @SwiftAlphaOne THANK YOU theycallmeswift@gmail.com