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Scaling to 1M concurrent users on the JVM

Scaling to 1M concurrent users on the JVM

Livefyre built a platform that powers real-time comments and curated social media for some of the largest websites, such as CNN, Fox, Sky, CBS, Coca-Cola, HBO, CNET, Universal Music Group, and Break. On average it deals with one million concurrent users on its systems. Java EE will get you a long way, but with these numbers, the company needed to resort to some often-overlooked computer science tricks and techniques to scale its microservices architecture to handle as many as 100,000 active concurrent connections per JVM. This session covers some of the data structures, patterns, best practices, and datastores that Livefyre uses to make this all happen and keep it running.

Jo Voordeckers

October 29, 2015
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  1. Version 1.1 Your Audience. Your Story. Scaling to 1,000,000 concurrent

    users on the JVM JavaOne 2015 - CON7220 Jo Voordeckers Sr. Software Engineer - Livefyre platform @jovoordeckers [email protected]
  2. © LIVEFYRE 2015 Livefyre helps over 1,500 of the most

    influential 
 brands & media companies build an engaged audience © LIVEFYRE 2014
  3. © LIVEFYRE 2015 © LIVEFYRE 2015 COMMENTS REVIEWS PPL WEARING

    JERSEYS 2015 ALL-STAR GAME JUMP SHOTS FAN PHOTOS HASHTAG CAMPAIGN #TopicHub CHAT LIVE BLOG real-time streams of UGC 
 to scale content creation Collect to quickly find and organize the best social content Organize to your website with 
 no coding required Publish audiences with best in class engagement tools to increase time on site and build community ENGAGE SIDENOTES PHOTO UPLOAD
  4. Privileged and Confidential © LIVEFYRE 2015 Real-Time Social Applications Comments

    Sidenotes Reviews Chat Media Wall Live Blog Polls Storify Social Maps Feed Trending Gallery
  5. © LIVEFYRE 2015 Real-time challenge • 1,000,000 concurrent users •

    150,000 per JVM • 100,000 req/s • 6-8x c3.2xlarge • long-poll + ws • 100s - 1,000s of listeners per stream • up to 250,000 listeners • read-heavy • updates < 2s
  6. © LIVEFYRE 2015 Real-time challenge • Presidential Debate on Fox

    News • from 50,000 req/s • to 200,000 req/s • 150,000+ listeners to the stream
  7. © LIVEFYRE 2015 Don’t use the “tech stack du jour”

    • use the right tools for your problem • embrace polyglot • Java, Scala, Jython • Python • NodeJS • K I S S + Y A G N I
  8. © LIVEFYRE 2015 Microservices, not your typical SOA • well

    defined tasks • horizontal scalability • deploy often • upstart & supervisord • java main() • docker? • Kafka • REST
  9. © LIVEFYRE 2015 Monitor all the things! are we sad

    • error vs success rates and timing • queue depth or lag • system resources • sample high velocity • /ping and /deep-ping access patterns • optimize scaling strategy • anticipate events
  10. © LIVEFYRE 2015 Mo services mo problems Dashboards • service

    vs system health • correlate “strange events” • capacity planning • app specific Tools • statsd + graphite + grafana / gdash • sentry log4j appender • nagios + pagerduty
  11. © LIVEFYRE 2015 Mo services mo problems Dashboards • service

    vs system health • correlate “strange events” • capacity planning • app specific Tools • statsd + graphite + grafana / gdash • sentry log4j appender • nagios + pagerduty
  12. © LIVEFYRE 2015 Request distribution or “data access pattern” Keep

    in memory (L1 cache) Get from S3 (L2 cache) Similar reqs Partition users
  13. © LIVEFYRE 2015 Forcing square pegs in a round hole

    • choose the right data stores • Database • Queue • sweet spot • type of data • type of queries • some optimized for write • some optimized for indexing • trade off of speed and consistency
  14. © LIVEFYRE 2015 Throttling - Leaky bucket algorithm • capped

    output flow 
 regardless of input flow • accrue output allowance over time • drop requests if insufficient allowance • cost function
 # 1 item per interval allowance = rate = 1 # 10 sec interval throttle_interval = 10 # 1req/10sec = 0.1 qps qps = rate / throttle_interval last_check = time() def throttle(item): current = time() # or item.created_at size = cost(item) # [0..1] time_passed = current - last_check last_check = current allowance += time_passed * qps # Cap to rate allowance = min(rate, allowance) if allowance < size: return True allowance -= size return False
  15. © LIVEFYRE 2015 Counting ‘Heavy Hitters’ - Space Saving Algorithm

    • unbounded stream • TOP-K in constant space • k * (item, count, error) • overestimates on replace • min(count) • MIN Heap + HashMap counts = { } # map of item to count errors = { } # map of item to error count for item in stream: if len(counts) < k: counts[item] += weight else: if item in counts: counts[item] += 1 else: prev_min = item_with_min_count(counts) counts[item] = counts[prev_min] + 1 1 errors[item] = counts[prev_min] counts.remove_key(prev_min)
  16. © LIVEFYRE 2015 Partitioning - Consistent Hashing • article_id %

    server_count • what if hosts added/removed ? • thundering herd! • Hashing.consistentHash(item, server_count) • minimizes shuffling • ConsistentHashRing with virtual nodes • TreeSet with 100 replicas per node - hash(“node1:1”) .. hash(“node1:100”) - hash(“node2:1”) .. (“node2:100”) ,… • SortedMap.get(hash(item)) or • SortedMap.tailMap(hash(item)).firstKey()
  17. © LIVEFYRE 2015 Partitioning - Consistent Hashing • article_id %

    server_count • what if hosts added/removed ? • thundering herd! • Hashing.consistentHash(item, server_count) • minimizes shuffling • ConsistentHashRing with virtual nodes • TreeSet with 100 replicas per node - hash(“node1:1”) .. hash(“node1:100”) - hash(“node2:1”) .. (“node2:100”) ,… • SortedMap.get(hash(item)) or • SortedMap.tailMap(hash(item)).firstKey()
  18. © LIVEFYRE 2015 Partitioning - Consistent Hashing • article_id %

    server_count • what if hosts added/removed ? • thundering herd! • Hashing.consistentHash(item, server_count) • minimizes shuffling • ConsistentHashRing with virtual nodes • TreeSet with 100 replicas per node - hash(“node1:1”) .. hash(“node1:100”) - hash(“node2:1”) .. (“node2:100”) ,… • SortedMap.get(hash(item)) or • SortedMap.tailMap(hash(item)).firstKey()
  19. © LIVEFYRE 2015 Partitioning - Consistent Hashing • article_id %

    server_count • what if hosts added/removed ? • thundering herd! • Hashing.consistentHash(item, server_count) • minimizes shuffling • ConsistentHashRing with virtual nodes • TreeSet with 100 replicas per node - hash(“node1:1”) .. hash(“node1:100”) - hash(“node2:1”) .. (“node2:100”) ,… • SortedMap.get(hash(item)) or • SortedMap.tailMap(hash(item)).firstKey()
  20. © LIVEFYRE 2015 Partitioning - Consistent Hashing • article_id %

    server_count • what if hosts added/removed ? • thundering herd! • Hashing.consistentHash(item, server_count) • minimizes shuffling • ConsistentHashRing with virtual nodes • TreeSet with 100 replicas per node - hash(“node1:1”) .. hash(“node1:100”) - hash(“node2:1”) .. (“node2:100”) ,… • SortedMap.get(hash(item)) or • SortedMap.tailMap(hash(item)).firstKey()
  21. © LIVEFYRE 2015 Membership test - Bloom Filters • very

    memory efficient • almost as fast as CHM • small % false pos • ZERO false neg • append only • see Cuckoo Filter • BloomFilter.create()
  22. © LIVEFYRE 2015 Membership test - Bloom Filters • very

    memory efficient • almost as fast as CHM • small % false pos • ZERO false neg • append only • see Cuckoo Filter • BloomFilter.create()
  23. © LIVEFYRE 2015 Membership test - Bloom Filters • very

    memory efficient • almost as fast as CHM • small % false pos • ZERO false neg • append only • see Cuckoo Filter • BloomFilter.create()
  24. © LIVEFYRE 2015 Membership test - Bloom Filters • very

    memory efficient • almost as fast as CHM • small % false pos • ZERO false neg • append only • see Cuckoo Filter • BloomFilter.create()
  25. © LIVEFYRE 2015 • ConcurrentHashMap’s secret • eg: ConcurrentBloomFilter •

    up to n threads non-blocking • n shards with a ReadWriteLock
 and BloomFilter • ConsistentHash index into shards • Striped in Guava Concurrency for shared resources - Striped Lock © LIVEFYRE 2015
  26. © LIVEFYRE 2015 Random Sampling float sampleRate = 0.10f; //

    10% if (ThreadLocalRandom.current().nextFloat() < sampleRate) { statsd.increment("high.velocity.request.success"); } • for high velocity events • NEVER for sparse events
  27. © LIVEFYRE 2015 • metadata store • set membership •

    distributed lock • leader election • Netflix Curator • DON’T TRY THIS AT HOME! Distributed Consensus - Zookeeper
  28. © LIVEFYRE 2015 Async IO • Get up to 1M

    connections, capped by bandwidth • Netty • EPOLL on Linux • (Composite)ByteBuf • ChannelGroup • HashedWheelTimer • READ THE SOURCE! • Others work as well: • Vert.x, NodeJS, Python Gevent
  29. © LIVEFYRE 2015 Data processing pipelines • Kafka Queues with

    many partitions • Auto-scale group of workers • commit batches of work to ZK (restart, lag) • Emit stats (success, error, timing) • Custom dashboard • sampled data from the stream • inject data in the stream (debug) • Future: • Spark Streaming • Mesos + Marathon + Chronos
  30. © LIVEFYRE 2015 Mechanical Sympathy • Disruptor, lock-free Queue •

    BlockingQueue - backpressure! • JCTools - Multi Prod Single Cons Queue • CAS - Atomic* & Unsafe • OpenHFT • off-heap storage • cpu affinity for JVM threads • zero allocation hashing • mechanical-sympathy.blogspot.com
  31. THANK YOU San Francisco, CA
 New York, NY
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    @livefyre.com press.livefyre.com blog.livefyre.com Jo Voordeckers SR. SOFTWARE ENGINEER - LF PLATFORM Email: [email protected] @jovoordeckers