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Christian Joudrey
February 28, 2014
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Scaling Shopify
Talk given at ConFoo 2014 on February 28th, 2014.
Christian Joudrey
February 28, 2014
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Transcript
SCALING SHOPIFY ...or ensuring happiness for online shoppers
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the stack
nginx unicorn • rails 4 • mysql 5.6 (percona) ruby
2.1 •
95 app servers 3,884 unicorn workers 5 job servers 387
job workers
1 request 1 process =
scale?
over 90,000 shops
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1.6B$ annual GMV that’s 3,600$ per min
cyber monday black friday
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61 M$ in GMV in four days
flash sales
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page caching
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shopify/cacheable
generational caching
gzip • etag + 304 not modified
class PostsController < ApplicationController def show response_cache do @post =
@shop.posts.find(params[:id]) respond_with(@post) end end def cache_key_data { action: action_name, format: request.format, params: params.slice(:id), shop_version: @shop.version } end end
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flash sale
query caching
shopify/identity_cache
full model caching
opt-in by design
after_commit expiry
class Product < ActiveRecord::Base include IdentityCache has_many :images cache_has_many :images,
:embed => true end product = Product.fetch(id) images = product.fetch_images
class Product < ActiveRecord::Base include IdentityCache cache_index :shop_id, :handle, :unique
=> true end Product.fetch_by_shop_id_and_handle(shop_id, handle)
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flash sale
background jobs
webhooks emails • fraud detection • payment processing
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priority queues payment • default • low realtime •
class ProductImportJob include BackgroundQueue::Realtime def perform(params) ... end end BackgroundQueue.push(ProductImportJob,
...)
throttling
the right data store for the job
ephemeral data sessions carts • inventory reservation •
now what?
catching regressions
measure it! if it moves...
statsd
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Liquid::Template.extend StatsD::Instrument Liquid::Template.statsd_measure :parse, 'Liquid.Template.parse' Liquid::Template.statsd_measure :render, 'Liquid.Template.render'
PaymentProcessingJob.stats_count :perform, 'PaymentProcessingJob.processed'
load testing
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simulates a flash sale
several times per week
slow queries
# User@Host: shopify[shopify] @ [127.0.0.1] # Thread_id: 264419969 Schema: shopify
Last_errno: 0 Killed: 0 # Query_time: 0.150491 Lock_time: 0.000057 Rows_sent: 1 Rows_examined: 147841 Rows_affected: 0 Rows_read: 147841 # Bytes_sent: 1214 Tmp_tables: 0 Tmp_disk_tables: 0 Tmp_table_sizes: 0 # InnoDB_trx_id: FF7021AAA # QC_Hit: No Full_scan: No Full_join: No Tmp_table: No Tmp_table_on_disk: No # Filesort: Yes Filesort_on_disk: No Merge_passes: 0 # InnoDB_IO_r_ops: 0 InnoDB_IO_r_bytes: 0 InnoDB_IO_r_wait: 0.000000 # InnoDB_rec_lock_wait: 0.000000 InnoDB_queue_wait: 0.000000 # InnoDB_pages_distinct: 475 SET timestamp=1393385020; SELECT `discounts`.* FROM `discounts` WHERE `discounts`.`shop_id` = 1745470 AND `discounts`.`status` = 'enabled' ORDER BY ISNULL(ends_at) DESC, ends_at DESC LIMIT 1
determining root cause
https://github.com/snormore/nginx-x-rid-header nginx request_id header proxy_set_header X-Request-ID "$request_id"; log_format main '...
$request_id' step 1
https://gist.github.com/mnutt/566725 Complete 200 OK in 100ms (Views: 60ms | ActiveRecord:
40ms | request_id=bc12813bce...) log_process_action ActionController::Instrumentation step 2
https://github.com/basecamp/marginalia User Load (0.3ms) SELECT `users`.* FROM `users` WHERE `users`.`id`
= 1 LIMIT 1 /*application:Shopify, controller:users,action:show, request_id:bc12813bce...*/ basecamp/marginalia step 3
# User@Host: shopify[shopify] @ [127.0.0.1] # Thread_id: 264419969 Schema: shopify
Last_errno: 0 Killed: 0 # Query_time: 0.150491 Lock_time: 0.000057 Rows_sent: 1 Rows_examined: 147841 Rows_affected: 0 Rows_read: 147841 # Bytes_sent: 1214 Tmp_tables: 0 Tmp_disk_tables: 0 Tmp_table_sizes: 0 # InnoDB_trx_id: FF7021AAA # QC_Hit: No Full_scan: No Full_join: No Tmp_table: No Tmp_table_on_disk: No # Filesort: Yes Filesort_on_disk: No Merge_passes: 0 # InnoDB_IO_r_ops: 0 InnoDB_IO_r_bytes: 0 InnoDB_IO_r_wait: 0.000000 # InnoDB_rec_lock_wait: 0.000000 InnoDB_queue_wait: 0.000000 # InnoDB_pages_distinct: 475 SET timestamp=1393385020; SELECT `discounts`.* FROM `discounts` WHERE `discounts`.`shop_id` = 1745470 AND `discounts`.`status` = 'enabled' ORDER BY ISNULL(ends_at) DESC, ends_at DESC LIMIT 1 /*application:Shopify,controller:orders,action:pay, request_id:bc12813bce...*/ profit!
access.log rails.log slow_query.log profit! (2)
schema migration with zero downtime
soundcloud/lhm
current schema new schema
insert/delete/update triggers
INSERT INTO ... SELECT ... insert/delete/update triggers
testing for external calls memcached • mysql • redis net/http
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it’s not about preventing it’s about raising awareness
integration test with assert_externals(...) do .. end Unexpected external call
(mysql): !"" mysql_load("GiftCard") !"" "SELECT `gift_cards`.* FROM `gift_cards` WHERE `gift_cards`.`id` = 1063936318 LIMIT 1" #"" called from: app/services/gift_card_payment_processing.rb: 73:in `block in log_successful'
subscribe('sql.active_record') ActiveSupport::Notifications ["sql.active_record", 2014-02-26 02:38:43 +0000, 2014-02-26 02:38:43 +0000, "a119c5ac2aa6fb4a52fe",
{:sql=>"SELECT `users`.* FROM `users` LIMIT 1", :name=>"User Load", :connection_id=>69893685920420, :binds=>[]}]
monkey-patch other libs to add instrumentation
thanks! :)