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Ruby Concurrency Compared

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September 10, 2016

Ruby Concurrency Compared

Talk about concurrency comparison of different concurrency models adopted by programming languages

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September 10, 2016
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  2. @anildigital Concurrency vs. parallelism 12 Concurrent = Two queues and

    one coffee machine. Parallel = Two queues and two coffee machines. Joe Armstrong
  3. @anildigital Concurrency vs. parallelism 13 Concurrency is about dealing with

    lots of things at once. Parallelism is about doing lots of things at once. http://blog.golang.org/concurrency-is-not-parallelism Rob Pike
  4. @anildigital Concurrency vs. parallelism 15 Lady Gaga Concurrent I will

    put down this drink to text you, then put my phone away and continue drinking, eh
  5. @anildigital Concurrency vs. parallelism 16 Lady Gaga Parallel I can

    text you with one hand while I use the other to drink, eh
  6. @anildigital Three walls https://www.technologyreview.com/s/421186/why-cpus-arent-getting-any-faster/ Power wall Faster computers get really

    hot Memory wall Memory buses are not fast enough to handle these increase clock speeds ILP wall (Instruction level parallelism) Instruction pipeline really means digging deeper power hole 17 Dr. David Patterson, Berkeley
  7. @anildigital Power wall + Memory wall + ILP wall Taken

    together, they mean. Computers will stop getting faster Furthermore, if an engineer optimizes one wall he aggravates the other two. Solution - Multi core processors 18
  8. @anildigital Computer performance Latency - Amount of time it takes

    to complete particular program on hardware Throughput - Number of operations per second Utilisation - Utilising best use of multicore systems Speedup - (Specific to parallel programming, your algorithm runs faster on parallel hardware) Power Consumption (No one cares) 19
  9. @anildigital Scheduling - Preemptive vs Non-preemptive A scheduling algorithm is

    Preemptive - If the active process or task or thread can be temporarily suspended to execute a more important process or task or thread Non-preemptive - If the active process or task or thread cannot be suspended i.e. runs to completion 20
  10. @anildigital Scheduling - Cooperative A scheduling algorithm is Cooperative -

    When currently running process voluntarily gives up executing to allow another process to run. e.g. yield 21
  11. @anildigital Comparing concurrency models / techniques 23 Model Execution Scheduling

    Communication Concurrent/ Parallel Implementation Mutexes Threads Preemptive Shared memory (locks) C/P Mutex Software Transactional Memory Threads Preemptive Shared memory (commit/abort) C/P Clojure STM Processes & IPC Processes Preemptive Shared memory
 (message passing) C/P Resque/Forking CSP Threads/Processes Preemptive Message passing (channels) C/P Golang / concurrent-ruby Actors Threads/Processes Preemptive Message passing (mailboxes) Erlang / Elixir / Akka / concurrent-ruby Futures & Promises Threads Cooperative Message passing (itself) C/P concurrent-ruby / Celluloid Co-routines 1 process / thread Cooperative Message passing C Fibers Evented 1 process / thread Cooperative Shared memory C EventMachine
  12. @anildigital Java Concurrency - Threads Threads Shared mutability is root

    of all Evil ( Deadlocks / Race conditions ) Solutions With synchronization / mutexes / locks 25
  13. @anildigital Java Concurrency - Threads Pros No scheduling needed by

    program (preemptive) Operating system does it for you Commonly used Cons Context switching / Scheduling overhead Deadlocks / Race conditions Synchronization / Locking issues 26
  14. @anildigital Locks - java.util.concurrent ReentrantLock 30 private ReentrantLock lock; public

    void foo(){ ... lock.lock(); ... } public void bar(){ ... lock.unlock(); ... }
  15. @anildigital Locks - java.util.concurrent ReentrantReadWriteLock 31 ReadWriteLock readWriteLock=new ReentrantReadWriteLock(); readWriteLock.readLock().lock();

    // multiple readers can enter this section // if not locked for writing, and not writers waiting // to lock for writing. readWriteLock.readLock().unlock(); 
 readWriteLock.writeLock().lock(); // only one writer can enter this section, // and only if no threads are currently reading. readWriteLock.writeLock().unlock();
  16. @anildigital Locks - java.util.concurrent Condition 32 class BoundedBuffer { final

    Lock lock = new ReentrantLock(); final Condition notFull = lock.newCondition(); final Condition notEmpty = lock.newCondition(); final Object[] items = new Object[100]; int putptr, takeptr, count; public void put(Object x) throws InterruptedException { lock.lock(); try { while (count == items.length) notFull.await(); items[putptr] = x; if (++putptr == items.length) putptr = 0; ++count; notEmpty.signal(); } finally { lock.unlock(); } } public Object take() throws InterruptedException { lock.lock(); try { while (count == 0) notEmpty.await(); Object x = items[takeptr]; if (++takeptr == items.length) takeptr = 0; --count; notFull.signal(); return x; } finally { lock.unlock(); } } }
  17. @anildigital Locks - java.util.concurrent Condition 33 class BoundedBuffer { final

    Lock lock = new ReentrantLock(); final Condition notFull = lock.newCondition(); final Condition notEmpty = lock.newCondition(); ...
  18. @anildigital Locks - java.util.concurrent Condition 34 ...
 public Object take()

    throws InterruptedException { lock.lock(); try { while (count == 0) notEmpty.await(); Object x = items[takeptr]; if (++takeptr == items.length) takeptr = 0; --count; notFull.signal(); return x; } finally { lock.unlock(); } } }
  19. @anildigital Locks - java.util.concurrent Condition 35 ... public void put(Object

    x) throws InterruptedException { lock.lock(); try { while (count == items.length) notFull.await(); items[putptr] = x; if (++putptr == items.length) putptr = 0; ++count; notEmpty.signal(); } finally { lock.unlock(); } }
 ...
  20. @anildigital Semaphores - java.util.concurrent Semaphores A thread synchronization construct To

    avoid missed signals between threads or to guard a critical section like locks 36
  21. @anildigital Semaphores - java.util.concurrent Semaphores 37 class Pool { private

    static final int MAX_AVAILABLE = 100; private final Semaphore available = new Semaphore(MAX_AVAILABLE, true); public Object getItem() throws InterruptedException { available.acquire(); return getNextAvailableItem(); } public void putItem(Object x) { if (markAsUnused(x)) available.release(); } ...
  22. @anildigital CountdownLatch - java.util.concurrent CountdownLatch 40 CountDownLatch latch = new

    CountDownLatch(3); Waiter waiter = new Waiter(latch); Decrementer decrementer = new Decrementer(latch); new Thread(waiter) .start(); new Thread(decrementer).start(); Thread.sleep(4000);
  23. @anildigital CountdownLatch - java.util.concurrent CountdownLatch 41 public class Waiter implements

    Runnable{ CountDownLatch latch = null; public Waiter(CountDownLatch latch) { this.latch = latch; } public void run() { try { latch.await(); } catch (InterruptedException e) { e.printStackTrace(); } System.out.println("Waiter Released"); } }
  24. @anildigital CountdownLatch - java.util.concurrent CountdownLatch 42 public class Decrementer implements

    Runnable { CountDownLatch latch = null;
 public Decrementer(CountDownLatch latch) { this.latch = latch; } public void run() { try { Thread.sleep(1000); this.latch.countDown(); Thread.sleep(1000); this.latch.countDown(); Thread.sleep(1000); this.latch.countDown(); } catch (InterruptedException e) { e.printStackTrace(); } } }
  25. @anildigital Barrier - java.util.concurrent CyclicBarrier (multi-party synchronization) Can synchronize threads

    progressing through some algorithm. It is a barrier that all threads must wait at, until all threads reach it, before any of the threads can continue. 43
  26. @anildigital Barrier - java.util.concurrent CyclicBarrier (multi-party synchronization) 44 Thread 1

    Cyclic Barrier 1 Thread 2 wait 44 Cyclic Barrier 2 wait wait wait
  27. @anildigital Exchanger - java.util.concurrent Exchanger Exchanger exchanger = new Exchanger();

    ExchangerRunnable exchangerRunnable1 = new ExchangerRunnable(exchanger, "A"); ExchangerRunnable exchangerRunnable2 = new ExchangerRunnable(exchanger, "B"); new Thread(exchangerRunnable1).start(); new Thread(exchangerRunnable2).start();
  28. @anildigital Exchanger - java.util.concurrent Exchanger public class ExchangerRunnable implements Runnable{

    Exchanger exchanger = null; Object object = null; public ExchangerRunnable(Exchanger exchanger, Object object) { this.exchanger = exchanger; this.object = object; } public void run() { try { Object previous = this.object; this.object = this.exchanger.exchange(this.object); System.out.println( Thread.currentThread().getName() + " exchanged " + previous + " for " + this.object ); } catch (InterruptedException e) { e.printStackTrace(); } } }
  29. @anildigital Atomic variable Not possible to forget to acquire the

    lock when necessary. Second, because no locks are involved, it’s impossible for an operation on an atomic variable to deadlock. 50
  30. @anildigital Atomic variables - java.util.concurrent AtomicBoolean 52 AtomicBoolean atomicBoolean =

    new AtomicBoolean(true); boolean expectedValue = true; boolean newValue = false; boolean wasNewValueSet = atomicBoolean.compareAndSet( expectedValue, newValue);
  31. @anildigital Atomic variables - java.util.concurrent AtomicInteger 53 AtomicInteger atomicInteger =

    new AtomicInteger(123); int expectedValue = 123; int newValue = 234; atomicInteger.compareAndSet(expectedValue, newValue);
 
 System.out.println(atomicInteger.getAndAdd(10)); System.out.println(atomicInteger.addAndGet(10));
  32. @anildigital Atomic variables - java.util.concurrent AtomicReference 54 AtomicReference atomicReference =

    new AtomicReference(); String initialReference = "the initially referenced string"; AtomicReference atomicReference = new AtomicReference(initialReference);
  33. @anildigital Atomic variables - java.util.concurrent AtomicIntegerArray 55 int[] ints =

    new int[10]; ints[5] = 123; AtomicIntegerArray array = new AtomicIntegerArray(ints); int value = array.get(5); array.set(5, 999); boolean swapped = array.compareAndSet(5, 999, 123); int newValue = array.addAndGet(5, 3); int oldValue = array.getAndAdd(5, 3); int newValue = array.incrementAndGet(5) int oldValue = array.getAndIncrement(5); int newValue = array.decrementAndGet(5); int oldValue = array.getAndDecrement(5);
  34. @anildigital Queues - java.util.concurrent BlockingQueue public class BlockingQueueExample { public

    static void main(String[] args) throws Exception { BlockingQueue queue = new ArrayBlockingQueue(1024); Producer producer = new Producer(queue); Consumer consumer = new Consumer(queue); new Thread(producer).start(); new Thread(consumer).start(); Thread.sleep(4000); } }
  35. @anildigital Queues - java.util.concurrent BlockingQueue public class Producer implements Runnable

    { protected BlockingQueue queue = null; public Producer(BlockingQueue queue) { this.queue = queue; } public void run() { try { queue.put("1"); Thread.sleep(1000); queue.put("2"); Thread.sleep(1000); queue.put("3"); } catch (InterruptedException e) { e.printStackTrace(); } } }
  36. @anildigital Queues - java.util.concurrent BlockingQueue public class Consumer implements Runnable{

    protected BlockingQueue queue = null; public Consumer(BlockingQueue queue) { this.queue = queue; } public void run() { try { System.out.println(queue.take()); System.out.println(queue.take()); System.out.println(queue.take()); } catch (InterruptedException e) { e.printStackTrace(); } } }
  37. @anildigital ConcurrentHashMap - java.util.concurrent ConcurrentHashMap 63 ConcurrentMap concurrentMap = new

    ConcurrentHashMap(); concurrentMap.put("key", "value"); Object value = concurrentMap.get("key");
  38. @anildigital ThreadPool - java.util.concurrent Instead of creating new thread for

    the task, it can be passed to a thread pool ThreadPool reuses threads Internally it uses BlockingQueue for threads ExecutorService is a thread pool implementation 66
  39. @anildigital ThreadPool - java.util.concurrent ExecutorService 67 ExecutorService executorService = Executors.newFixedThreadPool(10);

    executorService.execute(new Runnable() { public void run() { System.out.println("Asynchronous task"); } }); executorService.shutdown();
  40. @anildigital ForkJoinPool - java.util.concurrent ForkJoinPool was added in Java 7

    Similar to ExecutorService but one difference Makes it easy for tasks To split their work up into smaller tasks Tasks are then submitted to the ForkJoinPool too. Uses work stealing algorithm Next level of ExecutorService 69
  41. @anildigital ForkJoinPool - java.util.concurrent Basic fork & join algorithm 70

    Result solve(Problem problem) { if (problem is small) directly solve problem else { split problem into independent parts fork new subtasks to solve each part join all subtasks compose result from subresults } }
  42. @anildigital Real world usage Threads & mutexes are still used

    by programmers Provides very low level APIs to handle concurrency Fine grained concurrency with more power java.util.concurrent is robust. Still there are chances of bugs. 72
  43. @anildigital Amdhal’s Law To predict the theoretical maximum speedup for

    program processing using multiple processors. The speedup limited by the time needed for the sequential fraction of the program If N is the number of processors, s is the time spent by a processor on serial part of a program, and p is the time spent by a processor on a parallel part of a program, then the maximum possible speedup is given by: 1 / (s+p/N) Synchronization & communication overhead 75
  44. @anildigital Clojure STM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_transactional_memory “…completing an entire transaction verifies that

    other threads have not concurrently made changes to memory that it accessed in the past. This final operation, in which the changes of a transaction are validated and, if validation is successful, made permanent, is called a commit…” 77
  45. @anildigital Clojure STM Software transactional memory (STM) Any method of

    coordinating multiple concurrent modifications to a shared set of storage locations. Similar to garbage collection has displaced the need for manual memory management. Characterized as providing the same kind of systematic simplification of another error-prone programming practice - manual lock management 78
  46. @anildigital Clojure STM “Don’t wait on lock, just check when

    we’re ready to commit” 79 # Thread 2 
 atomic {
 - read variable
 - increment variable
 # going to write but Thread1 has written a variable…
 # notices Thread1 changed data, so ROLLS BACK
 - write variable
 } # Thread 1
 atomic { 
 - read a variable
 - increment a variable
 - write a variable
 }
  47. @anildigital State, Identify and Value http://clojure.org/about/state State, Identify, and Value

    72, {1, 2, 3}, “cat”, [4, 5, 7] (def sarah {:name "Sarah" :age 25 :wears-glasses? false}) An identify is an entity that has state State is a value at a point in time Value is something that doesn’t change e.g. Set of my favourite foods. I will prefer different foods in future, that will be a different set 80
  48. @anildigital Issues with state based OOP langs Imperative programming and

    state OOP, complects identity and state No way to obtain state independent of identity without copying There is no way to associate the identity’s state with a different value other than in-place memory mutation. Objects not treated as values Clojure says, OO doesn’t have to be in this way 81
  49. @anildigital Mutability issues Mutable values + Identities = Complexity 82

    # in Ruby favorite_langs_joe = Set.new ["Clojure", "Ruby"]
 
 favorite_langs_bob = favorite_langs_joe
 
 favorite_langs_joe << "Elixir"
 favorite_langs_joe 
 #<Set: {"Clojure", "Ruby", "Elixir"}> favorite_langs_bob 
 #<Set: {"Clojure", "Ruby", "Elixir"}>
  50. @anildigital Clojure STM Immutable data New values are functions of

    old values An identity’s state at any point in time is an immutable value Values can always be observed and new values calculated from old values without coordination Values will never change “in hand” Values can be safely shared between threads 83
  51. @anildigital Clojure STM - Atomic references Atomic references to values

    Defines mutable data structures which are concurrency aware Models Identity by way of references to immutable data Dereferencing a reference type gives you its (immutable) value Changes to an identity’s state are controlled / coordinated by the system 84
  52. @anildigital Clojure STM - Atomic references These mutable variables are

    in concert with Clojure’s persistent data structures to separate identify from state. Allowing accessing mutable variables from multiple threads without dangers of deadlock or race conditions In all cases the program will see stable views of the values in the world 85
  53. @anildigital Clojure STM 86 Model Usage Functions Atoms Synchronised, Independent

    updates pure Refs Synchronised, Coordinated updates pure Agents Asynchronous, Independent updates any Vars Thread-local updates any Clojure Reference Containers
  54. @anildigital Clojure Reference Types Isolate the state and constraint the

    ways in which that state can be changed. Clojure STM 88 Value Value Reference Type λ deref
  55. @anildigital Clojure STM - Atom atomic variables very similar to

    java.util.concurrent Atomic Variables Persistent data structures separate identity from state. 89 (def my-atom (atom 42)) #'user/my-atom (deref my-atom) 42 @my-atom 42
  56. @anildigital Clojure STM - Atom To update an atom 90

    (swap! my-atom inc) 43 @my-atom 43 (swap! my-atom +2) 45
  57. @anildigital Clojure STM - Atom Validators 91 (def non-negative (atom

    0 :validator #(>= %0))) #'user/non-negative (reset! non-negative 42) 42 (reset! non-negative -1) IllegalStateException Invalid reference state
  58. @anildigital Clojure STM - Atom Watchers 92 (def a atom

    (0)) (add-watch a :print #(println "Changed from " %3 " to " %4)) #<Atom@542ab4b1: 0> (swap! a + 2) Changed from 0 to 2
  59. @anildigital Clojure STM - Agents Agents are an uncoordinated, asynchronous

    reference type. concurrency aware. Agents work in concert with persistent data structures to maintain the separation of identity and state. Changes to an agent’s state are independent of changes to other agents’ states, and that all such changes are made away from the thread of execution that schedules them. I/O and other side-effecting functions may be safely used in conjunction with agents. Agents are STM-aware, so that they may be safely used in the context of retrying transactions 93
  60. @anildigital Clojure STM - Agents Agents 94 (def my-agent (agent

    0)) #'user/my-agent @my-agent 0 (send my-agent inc) #<Agent@2cadd45e: 1> (@my-agent) 1 (send my-agent + 2) #<Agent@2cadd45e: 1> (@my-agent) 3
  61. @anildigital Clojure STM - Agents 95 Agents Actors Agent’s value

    can be retrieved with deref. Actor encapsulates state and provides no direct means to accept it. Agent does not encapsulates behaviour. Function is provided by sender Actor’s can encapsulate behaviour Agent’s error reporting is more primitive. Actor’s error detection and recovery is sophisticated Agents provide no support for distribution Actors can be remote Composing agents cannot deadlock Composing actors can deadlock
  62. @anildigital Clojure STM - Agents Unlike refs and atoms, it

    is perfectly safe to use agents to coordinate I/O and perform other blocking operations. Use their own thread pool send For fixed thread pool. Never used for actions that might perform I/O or other blocking operations send-off for growing thread pool Ideal for guarding a contested resource. Blocking IO. 96
  63. @anildigital Clojure STM - Refs Refs enable coordinated, synchronous changes

    to multiple values concurrently No possibility of the Involved refs ever being in an observable inconsistent state Race conditions among the involved refs. Deadlocks. No manual use of locks, monitors, or other low-level synchronization primitive 97
  64. @anildigital Clojure STM - Refs Ideal for co-ordinating changes to

    multiple states Operations are atomic, consistent and isolated from other transactions Manual transaction control (dosync) Operations alter, ref-set, commute, ensure 98
  65. @anildigital Clojure STM - Refs Refs 100 (def my-ref (ref

    0)) #'user/my-ref @my-ref 0 (ref-set my-ref 42) IllegalStateException No transaction running (alter my-ref inc) IllegalStateException No transaction running
  66. @anildigital Clojure STM - Refs A transaction is created with

    dosync 101 (dosync (ref-set my-ref 42)) 42 @my-ref 42 (dosync (alter my-ref inc)) 43
 @my-ref 43
  67. @anildigital Clojure STM - Pros & Cons Pros Increased concurrency

    No thread needs to wait to access a resource Smaller scope that needs synchronizing - modifying disjoint parts of a system of a data structure Cons Aborting transactions Places limitations on the behaviour of transactions - they cannot perform any operation that cannot be undone, including most I/O 102
  68. @anildigital Clojure - Futures Futures Evaluated within a thread pool

    that is shared with potentially blocking agent actions. This pooling of resources can make futures more efficient than creating native threads as needed. Using future is much more concise than setting up and starting a native thread. Clojure futures (the value returned by future) are instances of java.util.concurrent.Future, which can make it easier to interoperate with Java APIs that expect them. Dereferencing a future blocks until value is available 103
  69. @anildigital Clojure - Futures Futures 104 (def do-something (future (Thread/sleep

    10000) 28)) #'user/do-something do-something #<core$future_call$reify__6110@14c55ea: :pending> (realized? do-something) false .... .... 10 seconds after (realized? do-something) true @do-something 28 do-something #<core$future_call$reify__6110@14c55ea: 28>
  70. @anildigital Clojure - Delays Delays Construct that suspends some body

    of code, Evaluating only upon demand, when it is dereferenced Only evaluate their body of code once Caches the return value. 105 (def d (delay (println "Running...") :done!)) #'user/d (deref d) Running... :done!
 
 @d :done!
 
 (realized? d) true
  71. @anildigital Clojure - Promises Used in similar way as delay

    or future They block when you dereference them if they don’t have value until they do You don’t immediately give them value, but provide them one by calling deliver 106 (def result (promise)) (future (println "The result is: " @result))
 (Thread/sleep 2000)
 
 (deliver result 42)
 "The result is: 42”
  72. @anildigital Clojure - Vars Identities (Atom, Agent, Refs) referred (eventually)

    to a single value Real world needs names that refer to different values at different points in time With vars you can override the value Concurrency aware Limitation We can override their value only within the scope of a particular function call, and nowhere else. 107
  73. @anildigital Clojure - Vars 108 (def x :mouse) #'user/x 


    (def box (fn [] x)) #'user/box
 (box) :mouse
 (def x :cat) #'user/x
 
 (box) :cat Example
  74. @anildigital Node.js Architecture API Node Bindings
 (socket, http, etc) Asynchronous

    I/O
 (libuv) V8 Event
 Loop
 (libuv) DNS
 (c-ares) Crypto
 (OpenSSL) Main Single Thread
  75. @anildigital Node.js Single threaded Cooperative multitasking (Node.js waits for some

    asynchronous I/O to yield to the next waiting process.) Slow network operations event loops are preferred You can serve more number of connections You don’t have to spend a process/thread for a connection libuv abstracts best of platforms in Node.js libuv internally uses thread pool. (e.g. File IO) 111
  76. @anildigital Node.js Evented servers are really good for very light

    requests, but if you have long running request, it falls on its face. Pros Avoid polling. CPU bound vs IO bound Scales well vs spawning many threads No deadlocks Cons You block the even loop, all goes bad Program flow is “spaghettish” Callback hell Hard to debug, you lose the stack 114
  77. @anildigital coroutines with asyncio in Python New trend in asynchronous

    programming Coroutines allow asynchronous code can be paused and resumed functions which cooperatively multitasks with other function Program puts coroutine on hold for async and control goes to event loop 116
  78. @anildigital coroutines with asyncio in Python Coroutines are a language

    construct Event loop is a scheduler for coroutine Coroutines are best of the both the worlds, They can wait as callbacks do. They yield to each other so less chance of race conditions Coroutines are extremely lightweight and never preempted Coroutines wait on socket and if something happens on socket they become runnable. Compared to multi-threaded, co-routines can run sequence of operations in a single function. Exception handling works too Limitation Coroutines execute on single thread only 117
  79. @anildigital Actor model 119 Carl Hewitt, Peter Bishop Richard Steiger

    A Universal Modular ACTOR Formalism for Artificial Intelligence, 1973
  80. @anildigital Actor model Mathematical model of concurrent computation. The Actor

    model treats “Actors” as the universal primitives of concurrent digital computation Actors communicate with messages In response to a message that it receives, Actor can Make local decisions Create more Actors Send more messages Determine how to respond to the next message received 120
  81. @anildigital CSP Practically applied to in industry as a tool

    for specifying and verifying the concurrent aspects of variety of different systems Processes - No threads. No shared memory. Fixed number of processes. Channels - Communication is synchronous (Unlike Actor model) Influences on design Go, Limbo 123
  82. @anildigital CSP 124 Adaptation among languages Message passing style of

    programming Addressable processes Unknown Processes with Channels OCaml, Go, Clojure Erlang 124
  83. @anildigital CSP Pros Uses message passing and channels heavily, alternative

    to locks Cons Handling very big messages, or a lot of messages, unbounded buffers Messaging is essentially a copy of shared 125
  84. @anildigital CSP & Actor Model Two approaches from seventies changed

    concurrency today. Go, Akka (JVM), Elixir (Erlang) 126
  85. @anildigital Elixir Elixir is written on top of Erlang. Shares

    runtime of Erlang & can use Erlang libraries. A functional programming language Immutable data structures 128
  86. @anildigital Elixir - Robust & Fault Tolerant Distributed Concurrent Fault

    tolerance Highly Resilient Scalable (Horizontal and Vertical) 129
  87. @anildigital Elixir - Processes Everything is process “Green” processes. Elixir

    process != Operating system process Elixir process != Operating system thread Completely isolated in execution time and space 130
  88. @anildigital Elixir/Erlang VM CPU CPU CPU CPU Scheduler Scheduler Scheduler

    Scheduler Process Process Process Process Process Process Process Process Process Process Process Process Process Process Process Process OS Thread OS Thread OS Process BEAM OS Thread OS Thread
  89. @anildigital Elixir - Processes Each Elixir process has own local

    GC No stop-the world garbage collection (like Ruby/Java) Much easier for process scheduler to schedule Very little overhead Cheap to create thousands of Elixir processes Concurrency is not difficult in Erlang / Elixir and in built (not conventional) Isolated crashes. Process crash doesn’t affect other processes. 132
  90. @anildigital Elixir - Actor model Implements Actor model (similar to

    Postal service) Processes are actors Every actor has its address Actors communicate via messages asynchronously “Do not communicate by sharing memory; instead, share memory by communicating” 133
  91. @anildigital Elixir - Actor model Actor do one of the

    following 3 things Create more actors Send messages to other actors whose addressees it knows Define how it reacts to a message Actors may receive messages in random order 134
  92. @anildigital Elixir - Actor model 135 defmodule Talker do def

    loop do receive do {:greet, name} -> IO.puts("Hello #{name}") {:praise, name} -> IO.puts("#{name}, you're amazing") {:celebrate, name, age} -> IO.puts("Here's to another #{age} years, #{name}") end loop end end pid = spawn(&Talker.loop/0) send(pid, {:greet, "Huey"}) send(pid, {:praise, "Dewey"}) send(pid, {:celebrate, "Louie", 16}) # Outputs
 Hello Huey Dewey, you're amazing Here's to another 16 years, Louie
  93. @anildigital Elixir - Actor model vs. CSP 136 CSP Actor

    model Send & Receive may block (synchronous) Only receive blocks Messages are delivered when they are sent No guarantee of delivery of messages Synchronous Send message and forget Works on one machine Work on multiple machines (Distributed by default) Lacks fault tolerance Fault tolerance
  94. @anildigital Elixir - Actor model Pros Uses message passing heavily

    No shared state (avoid locks, easier to scale) Easier to maintain code. Declarative Cons When shared state is required, doesn’t fit well Handling of very big messages, or a lot of messages Messaging is essentially a copy of data 137
  95. @anildigital Elixir / Erlang advanced tools OTP Defines systems in

    terms of hierarchies of applications. Agents Background process that maintain state State can be accessed at different places within a process or node, or across multiple nodes. Good at dealing with very-specific background activities, 138
  96. @anildigital Elixir / Erlang advanced tools Nodes Instances of Erlang

    VM Can be connected to there Nodes Remote execution Supervisors Has one purpose. It manages one or more worker processes. Uses process-linking and monitoring facilities of Erlang VM Heart of Reliability 139
  97. @anildigital Elixir / Erlang advanced tools Tasks Execute one particular

    operation throughout their lifetime async / await 140 task = Task.async(fn -> do_some_work() end) res = do_some_other_work() res + Task.await(task)
  98. @anildigital Go Built-in concurrency based on Tony Hoare’s CSP paper.

    goroutines Lightweight processes Runs concurrently and parallel Communicate using channels Channels is something you create and pass around as object Read and write operations on channels block e.g. send from process A will not complete unless process B receives 142
  99. @anildigital goroutine Go - goroutine 143 func f(from string) {

    for i := 0; i < 3; i++ { fmt.Println(from, ":", i) } } func main() { f("direct") go f("goroutine") go func(msg string) { fmt.Println(msg) }("going") var input string fmt.Scanln(&input) fmt.Println("done") } $ go run goroutines.go direct : 0 direct : 1 direct : 2 goroutine : 0 going goroutine : 1 goroutine : 2 <enter> done Output
  100. @anildigital Channels Go - Channels 144 Output package main import

    "fmt" func main() { messages := make(chan string) go func() { messages <- "ping" }() msg := <-messages fmt.Println(msg) } $ go run channels.go ping
  101. @anildigital Go - Channels Channels are means of synchronization For

    multiple channels we use select statement select allows you to listen for multiple channels There is default case and timeout case. e.g. for network IO if nothing happens, a timeout will happen. timeout case is important (in a highly concurrent system with network calls) 145
  102. @anildigital Go - Channels select 146 c1 := make(chan string)

    c2 := make(chan string) go func() { time.Sleep(time.Second * 1) c1 <- "one" }() go func() { time.Sleep(time.Second * 2) c2 <- "two" }() for i := 0; i < 2; i++ { select { case msg1 := <-c1: fmt.Println("received", msg1) case msg2 := <-c2: fmt.Println("received", msg2) } } $ time go run select.go received one received two real 0m2.245s Output
  103. @anildigital Go - goroutines goroutines run in user space and

    are scheduled by user space runtime in Golang start with small stack and can be efficiently grown can be multiplexed on operating system thread has very well defined scheduling order for IO, scheduler will preempt it, it will make resume goroutine once IO is complete. Java/Ruby lack the concept of goroutine or lightweight thread or select (important for CSP). Without concept of cheap threads to communicate between channels. It won’t be possible to have go like concurrency. In Java/Ruby, it would be heavy weight thread, Not as performant. 147
  104. @anildigital Ruby - Fibers A Fiber is a lightweight thread

    that uses cooperative multitasking instead of preemptive multitasking. A running fiber must explicitly "yield" to allow another fiber to run, which makes their implementation much easier than kernel or user threads. A fiber is a unit of execution that must be manually scheduled by the application. Fibers run in the context of the threads that schedule them. Each thread can schedule multiple fibers. In general, fibers do not provide advantages over a well-designed multithreaded application.However, using fibers can make it easier to port applications that were designed to schedule their own threads. 149
  105. @anildigital Ruby - Fibers 150 Thread 1 Thread 2 Fiber

    1 Fiber 2 Blocking IO
 (red) CPU Time (orange) Co-operative: 60ms Blocking IO
 (red) CPU Time 
 (orange) 10 quanta * 10 ms = 
 100 ms Cooperative - Handling execution rights between one and another, saving local state
  106. @anildigital Ruby - Fibers Pros Expressive state: state based computations

    much easier to understand and implement No need for locks (cooperative scheduling) Scales vertically (add more CPU power) Cons Single thread: Harder to paralleize/scale horizontally (Use more cases, add more nodes) Constrained to have all components work together symbiotically Fibers are more of a code organization pattern than a way of doing concurrent tasks. 151
  107. @anildigital Ruby - GVL What is GVL? Global VM Lock

    (aka GIL - Global Interpreter Lock) What happens with GVL? With GVL, only one thread executes a time Thread must request a lock If lock is available, it is acquired If not, the thread blocks and waits for the lock to become available Ruby’s runtime guarantees thread safety. But it makes no guarantees about your code. 153
  108. @anildigital Ruby - GVL Blocking or long-running operations happens outside

    of GVL You can still write performant concurrent (as good as Java, Node.js) in a Ruby app if it does only heavy IO Multithreaded CPU-bound requests GVL is still issue. Ruby is fast enough for IO (network) heavy applications (In most cases) 154
  109. @anildigital Ruby - Why GVL? Makes developer’s life easier (It’s

    harder to corrupt data) Avoids race conditions C extensions It makes C extensions development easier Most C libraries are not thread safe Parts of Ruby’s implementation aren’t thread safe (Hash for instance) 155
  110. @anildigital Ruby - Multiprocess vs. Multithreading 156 fork do puts

    "Hello Kaigi" end Thread.new do puts "Hello Kaigi" end Multiprocess Multithreading
  111. @anildigital 157 Processes Threads Uses more memory Uses less memory

    If parent dies before children have exited, children can become zombie processes All threads die when the process dies (no chance of zombies) More expensive for forked processes to switch context since OS needs to save and reload everything Threads have considerably less overhead since they share address space and memory Forked processes are given a new virtual memory space (process isolation) Threads share the same memory, so need to control and deal with concurrent memory issues Requires inter-process communication Can "communicate" via queues and shared memory Slower to create and destroy Faster to create and destroy Easier to code and debug Can be significantly more complex to code and debug Ruby - Multiprocess vs. Multithreading
  112. @anildigital Who uses multiprocessing and multithreading 158 Who uses multiprocesses?

    Who uses multithreading? Resque Sidekiq Unicorn Puma 1.x Sidekiq Pro Thin Puma 2 (Clustered mode) Puma 2 (Clustered mode)
  113. @anildigital Who uses multiprocessing? GitHub - Unicorn Shopify - Unicorn

    Gitlab - Unicorn Basecamp - Unicorn for web requests 159
  114. @anildigital Ruby lacked better concurrency abstractions Java has java.util.concurrent, Ruby

    didn't not have actor model Ruby didn’t have STM Ruby didn’t have better concurrency abstractions. Ruby has concurrent-ruby gem now concurrent-ruby gem provides concurrency aware abstractions (Inspired from other languages) 161
  115. @anildigital concurrent-ruby General-purpose Concurrency Abstractions Async - A mixin module

    that provides simple asynchronous behavior to a class. Loosely based on Erlang's gen_server. Future - An asynchronous operation that produces a value. Promise - Similar to Futures, with more features. ScheduledTask - Like a Future scheduled for a specific future time. TimerTask - A Thread that periodically wakes up to perform work at regular intervals. 165
  116. @anildigital concurrent-ruby Thread-safe Value Objects, Structures, and Collections Array -

    A thread-safe subclass of Ruby's standard Array. Hash - A thread-safe subclass of Ruby's standard Hash. Map - A hash-like object that should have much better performance characteristic Tuple - A fixed size array with volatile (synchronized, thread safe) getters/setters. 166
  117. @anildigital concurrent-ruby Value objects Maybe - A thread-safe, immutable object

    representing an optional value. Delay - Lazy evaluation of a block yielding an immutable result. Based on Clojure's delay. 167
  118. @anildigital concurrent-ruby Thread-safe variables Agent - A way to manage

    shared, mutable, asynchronous, independent, state. Based on Clojure's Agent. Atom - A way to manage shared, mutable, synchronous, independent state. Based on Clojure's Atom. AtomicBoolean - A boolean value that can be updated atomically. AtomicFixnum - A numeric value that can be updated atomically. AtomicReference - An object reference that may be updated atomically. Exchanger - A synchronization point at which threads can pair and swap elements within pairs. Based on Java's Exchanger. Java-inspired ThreadPools and Other Executors 168
  119. @anildigital concurrent-ruby Thread Synchronization Classes and Algorithms CountDownLatch - A

    synchronization object that allows one thread to wait on multiple other threads. CyclicBarrier - A synchronization aid that allows a set of threads to all wait for each other to reach a common barrier point. Event - Old school kernel-style event. ReadWriteLock - A lock that supports multiple readers but only one writer. ReentrantReadWriteLock - A read/write lock with reentrant and upgrade features. Semaphore - A counting-based locking mechanism that uses permits. 169
  120. @anildigital concurrent-ruby Edge features Actor - Implements the Actor Model,

    where concurrent actors exchange messages. New Future Framework Channel: Communicating Sequential Processes (CSP) - Functionally equivalent to Go channels with additional inspiration from Clojure core.async. 170
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