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Paul Hinze
July 22, 2015
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SWIM: Scalable Weakly Consistent Infection Style Process Group Membership Protocol
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SWIM Scalable Weakly Consistent Infection Style Process Group Membership Protocol
Paul Hinze phinze
Paul Hinze phinze death stare
Armon Dadgar armon creator of Serf and Consul
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Process Group Membership Protocol Who is alive
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Process Group Membership Protocol
SWIM Scalable Weakly Consistent Infection Style Process Group Membership Protocol
Scalable The SWIM effort is motivated by the unscalability of
traditional heartbeating protocols.
Heartbeating A B C A A B B Failure Detection
+ Membership
Heartbeating
Evaluating Protocols Completeness Speed Accuracy Overhead
Evaluating Protocols Completeness Speed Accuracy Overhead heartbeating Yes Limit *
Interval High Nodes2 !
Key Insight Failure Detection State Updates. Solve separately from
Failure Detection ping! ack! A B C D {B,C,D}
Failure Detection ping! ack! A B C D {B,C,D}
Indirect Ping ping(C)! ack! B C D ping(C)! ping ack
fail {B,C,D}
Indirect Ping ping(C)! B C D ping(C)! fail ...C is
dead! fail
Key Insight Failure Detection State Updates. Solve separately from
Key Insight State Updates Failure Detection Piggyback onto messages.
State Updates ping! (B is dead) ack! (D just joined)
A B C D {B,C} {D}
Infection Style A B C D {B,C} {A,B,D} {A,B} weakly
consistent
Evaluating Protocols Completeness Speed Accuracy Overhead SWIM Yes, eventually 1
* Interval High-ish O(N)
Improvements Time Bounded Completeness Increased Accuracy
Completeness A B {B, C, D, ..., N} N
Completeness A B {B, C, D, ..., N} N 1.
Shuffle List 2. Iterate
Completeness Fixed Time
Evaluating Protocols Completeness Speed Accuracy Overhead SWIM Yes, fixed time
1 * Interval High-ish O(N)
Accuracy B C D ...C is MAYBE dead! A
Accuracy B C D I heard C might be dead.
A
Accuracy B C D I'm not dead! A
Accuracy
Evaluating Protocols Completeness Speed Accuracy Overhead SWIM Yes, fixed time
1 * Interval High O(N)
Evaluating Protocols Completeness Speed Accuracy Overhead SWIM Yes, fixed time
1 * Interval High O(N)
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Limitations Update Latency Problem Solution Separate Gossip Timer
Limitations Cannot Handle Network Partitions Problem Solution Track and Retry
Recently Dead Nodes
Limitations No Concept of Graceful Leave (vs Failure) Problem Solution
Broadcast and Tracking of "Intents"
Limitations New Nodes Take Too Long Materialize Initial State Problem
Solution Anti-entropy TCP State Syncs
Limitations No built-in facility for user data Problem Solution Implement
user payloads (ordering via lamport clocks)
Limitations No peer metadata, only IP Addresses Problem Solution Inject
versioned peer metadata into state messages
Limitations No encryption Problem Solution Implement AES-GCM with key rotation
56 nodes 2K nodes Performance
Implementations Memberlist https://github.com/hashicorp/memberlist Serf lib https://github.com/hashicorp/serf Serf http://www.serfdom.io Consul http://www.consul.io
Implementations events, queries, and scripts serf CLI serf lib memberlist
Implementations service discovery, K/V, health checks consul serf lib memberlist
Implementations service discovery, K/V, health checks
Thanks Cloud icons by Julien Deveaux from the Noun Project