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Mike Perham
November 02, 2012
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Asynchronous Processing for Fun and Profit
Some pro tips and an overview of Sidekiq for great async victory!
Mike Perham
November 02, 2012
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Transcript
Async Processing for Fun and Profit Mike Perham @mperham
Me Director of Engineering, TheClymb.com
Agenda • Basics • Protips • Sidekiq
Why? • User-Perceived Performance • I/O is SLOOOOOOOOOOOW • I/O
is unreliable
What? • Optional work • Anything not required to build
the HTTP response
How? • Client puts message on a queue • Server
pulls message off queue • Worker executes code based on message
How? async do # perform some work end
How? • Marshalling a Proc • Need to serialize closure
How? async(instance, :method, args)
How? • Marshal instance • Marshal args
How? async(Class, :method, args)
How? • Serialize just the class name • Marshal the
arguments
Congratulations! This is exactly how Resque and Sidekiq work.
How?
How?
How?
Tip #1 Small, Stateless Messages
Stateless • Database holds objects (nouns) • Queue holds actions
(verbs) • “Perform X on Object 123”
Avoid State • Bad • @user.delay.sync_images • Good • User.delay.sync_images(@user.id)
Simple Types • Small & Easy to read • Cross-platform
• Sidekiq / Resque use JSON
Debugging
Tip #2 Idempotent, Transactional Units of Work
Idempotent • Fancy computer science term • “Work can be
applied multiple times without changing the result beyond the initial application”
Idempotent • Canceling an order • Updating user’s email address
Not Idempotent! • Charging credit card • Sending email
Idempotent • Your code has bugs! • Sidekiq will retry
jobs that raise • Design jobs to be retried • e.g. verify you need to perform action before performing it
Transactional • Infinite credit?
Tip #3 Embrace Concurrency
Concurrency • Resque/DJ = 4 workers • Sidekiq = 100
workers • Mike, what is best in life?
“To crush their servers, see them smoking before you and
hear the lamentations of their admins.”
Concurrency • Use connection_pool gem to limit client connections •
Split work into small batches • 100 items => 10 jobs of 10 items
Concurrency • Thread safety rarely an issue • Most gem
maintainers very responsive • Recently fixed: • cocaine, typheuos
Theory, meet Practice
Sidekiq • Simple, efficient message processing • Like Resque, but
10x faster
MODERN RUBY IS NOT SLOW SINGLE THREADING IS SLOW
Concurrency • To scale single-threaded, create lots of processes. •
HORRIBLY RAM INEFFICIENT
Threads vs Processes • Example: 400MB single-threaded process • 25
processes = 10GB RAM = EC2 xlarge • 25 threads = 1GB RAM = EC2 small • $60/month vs $480/month • 160 dynos => 10 dynos • 150 dynos * $35/month =~ $5000/month
Quick Rant • GIL + poor GC • C extension
API must DIE • What’s larger: 50% or 800%?
Client Your App Client Middleware Redis Sidekiq Client API Rails
Process
Server Processor Server Middleware Redis Worker Sidekiq Process Processor Server
Middleware Worker Processor Server Middleware Worker Processor Server Middleware Worker Fetcher Manager
Versions • Sidekiq - Free, LGPLv3 • Sidekiq Pro -
more features, support, $ • motivation!
Features Sidekiq Resque DJ Concurrency Store Hooks Web UI Scheduler
Retry Delay Batches Threads Processes Processes Redis Redis DB middleware callbacks callbacks ✓ ✓ ? ✓ ? ✓ ✓ ? ✓ ✓ ? ✓ Pro ? - ? - optional
Future • Nicer, more functional Web UI • APIs for
managing queues / retries • Rails 4 Queue API
Pro Future • Enterprise-y features • Workflow • Notifications
Conclusion • small, stateless messages • idempotent / transactional •
concurrency • sidekiq
Questions? @mperham
[email protected]