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Tips and Tricks from Shopify's codebase
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Christian Joudrey
May 23, 2014
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Tips and Tricks from Shopify's codebase
Talk given at Montreal.rb on May 20th, 2014
Christian Joudrey
May 23, 2014
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tips and tricks from Shopify’s codebase
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measure it! if it moves...
statsd
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Liquid::Template.extend StatsD::Instrument ! Liquid::Template.statsd_measure :render, 'Liquid.Template.render'
PaymentProcessingJob.statsd_count :perform, 'PaymentProcessingJob.processed'
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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
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# 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*/
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)
bonus! background jobs
schema migration with zero downtime
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orders 20140520_orders
insert/delete/update triggers
INSERT INTO ... SELECT ... insert/delete/update triggers
async caveat
tracking exceptions
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thanks! :)