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Andrea Leopardi
May 11, 2016
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Concurrent and Resilient Connections to Outside the BEAM
Andrea Leopardi
May 11, 2016
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outside CONCURRENT RESILIENT and CONNECTIONS to the BEAM
ERLANG VM mnesia message passing ets
ERLANG VM key-value store relational db message queue
ERLANG VM key-value store relational db message queue
the outside world is SCARY
ANDREA LEOPARDI @WHATYOUHIDE
Gothenburg, Sweden
FOOTBALL ADDICTS
GENSERVER TCP
SILLY the way
defmodule Redis do def command(cmd) do end end
defmodule Redis do def command(cmd) do {:ok, sock} = :gen_tcp.connect(...)
:gen_tcp.send(sock, encode(cmd)) {:ok, data} = :gen_tcp.recv(sock, 0) :gen_tcp.close(sock) decode(data) end end
defmodule Redis do def command(cmd) do {:ok, sock} = :gen_tcp.connect(...)
:gen_tcp.send(sock, encode(cmd)) {:ok, data} = :gen_tcp.recv(sock, 0) :gen_tcp.close(sock) decode(data) end end
defmodule Redis do def command(cmd) do {:ok, sock} = :gen_tcp.connect(...)
:gen_tcp.send(sock, encode(cmd)) {:ok, data} = :gen_tcp.recv(sock, 0) :gen_tcp.close(sock) decode(data) end end
defmodule Redis do def command(cmd) do {:ok, sock} = :gen_tcp.connect(...)
:gen_tcp.send(sock, encode(cmd)) {:ok, data} = :gen_tcp.recv(sock, 0) :gen_tcp.close(sock) decode(data) end end
defmodule Redis do def command(cmd) do {:ok, sock} = :gen_tcp.connect(...)
:gen_tcp.send(sock, encode(cmd)) {:ok, data} = :gen_tcp.recv(sock, 0) :gen_tcp.close(sock) decode(data) end end
defmodule Redis do def command(cmd) do {:ok, sock} = :gen_tcp.connect(...)
:gen_tcp.send(sock, encode(cmd)) {:ok, data} = :gen_tcp.recv(sock, 0) :gen_tcp.close(sock) decode(data) end end
opening NEW connections is EXPENSIVE
GENSERVER keeping the socket in a
TWO WAYS blocking non-blocking
TWO WAYS blocking
CLIENT GENSERVER socket socket send() recv()
defmodule Redis do def command(conn, cmd) do sock = checkout(conn)
# send and recv checkin(conn, sock) end end
defmodule Redis do def command(conn, cmd) do sock = checkout(conn)
# send and recv checkin(conn, sock) end end
{:error, :checked_out} :queue.in() VS
POOLING :|
TWO WAYS non-blocking
active: true {:noreply, _} + GenServer.reply/2 +
client Redis client client GenServer
tcp is FULL DUPLEX
client Redis client client Sender Receiver
TWO WAYS blocking non-blocking copies less data + needs pooling
- doesn't use full duplex - enc/dec on client + - copies more data + doesn't need pooling + uses full duplex - enc/dec in server
RESIL IENCY
Redis GenServer
Redis GenServer
{:tcp_closed, reason} backoff + reconnect
hex.pm/packages/connection gen_
Connection GenServer
init/1 connect/2 disconnect/2 handle_call/3 handle_cast/2 handle_info/2 terminate/2 code_change/3 {:disconnect, reason,
state} {:backoff, timeout, state}
sync/async CONNECT
SYNC start_link {:ok, pid} init() connect
ASYNC start_link {:ok, pid} init() connect connect()
You now allow initializations with fewer guarantees: they went from
"the connection is available" to "the connection manager is available". Fred Hebert
CONNECTION TALKING CONCURRENCY RESILIENCY
@whatyouhide