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Marco Cecconi
September 26, 2014
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The Architecture Of Marco Cecconi @sklivvz http://sklivvz.com
Sizing up the problem
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*source: Quantcast, Alexa #50-‐ish network for traffic* (between imdb.com
and t.co)
#50-‐ish network for traffic* …and #17 in Portugal!?
*source: Quantcast, Alexa much successful very traffic obrigado, yo!
543,255,552 pageviews in the last 30 days* *source: Quantcast
Our datacenter?
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web servers load balancers redis search database http(s) http rest
http protobuf sql sql protobuf tag engine
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We are sNll scaling up!
Our development cycle
BAT!CAVE Code-build-test cycle running on home machine feature requests
BAT!CAVE DEV.SO Test on the real servers git push
BAT!CAVE DEV.SO META.SE 1-click deploy Users test on meta.stackexchange.com (“baking”)
git push
BAT!CAVE DEV.SO META.SE 1-click deploy HALP! git revert git push
BAT!CAVE DEV.SO NETWORK META.SE 1-click deploy git push 1-click deploy
It’s live! Tons of users use it…
BAT!CAVE DEV.SO NETWORK META.SE 1-click deploy git push 1-click deploy
…and provide new feature requests
Move fast and break things* * Not the home
page or question page :-)
Move fast and break things* * Not the home
page or question page :-)
Abusing caching
Network Level Caches (CDN, etc.) Server Level Cache (HttpRuntime.Cache) Site
Level Cache (Redis) SQL Server Database Cache (384 gigs of RAM!) Solid State Disk
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RisoQo & SpagheS
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Throwing away risotto… one grain at a time!
Abuse caching for GC performance
IRepository<Order> orderRepository = container.Resolve<IRepository<Order>>();
Order order = orderRepository.Get(35); This is what you think you are doing…
…but if you think about it a bit more…
...this is what you are actually doing! IRepository<Order> repository =
new ValidatingOrderRepository ( new SecurityRepository<Order> ( new LoggingRepository<Order> ( new CachingRepository<Order> ( new NHibernateRepository<Order> () ) ) ) ); Order order = repository.Get(35);
Throwing away spaghetti… one strand at a time!
Dependency InjecNon is our version of spagheS code
Our source code
Few projects :-)
Few projects :-) Few lines of code :-)
Few projects :-) Few lines of code :-) Eeek! very
few tests :-S
Few projects :-) Few lines of code :-) Awesome community
to help :-D Eeek! very few tests :-S
YAGNI* * You Ain’t Gonna Need It!
Libraries and open source
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Wrap code in libraries and open source it
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“SUPERHERO” CODING
HIRE “NINJA” CODERS
TOOLS LEVEL: “NINJA”
• Performance is a feature • Always.
Be. Shipping. • Use your circumstances. • Open source your libraries • 3 obscenely big monitors. KEY TAKEAWAYS
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Marco Cecconi @sklivvz http://sklivvz.com we are hiring new ninjas from
anywhere in the world!