Big server-is-watching-you

Big server is watchingyouMaurice KherlakianProfessional services consultantmaurice.k@zend.comtwitter.com/zendhttp://ca.linkedin.com/in/mkherlakian

About me • Originally from Lebanon, based in Montreal since 2003 • BS in Computer Science from the American University of Beirut • Speak english, french and arabic • Been using PHP for the past 10 years • Worked on some large and very heavy traffic websites (4M+ page views/day) • Zend Consultant for the past 2 years • Had the opportunity to work on some very large accounts like NYSE, Guthy- Renker, Best Buy, Levolor, Harvard, UBM, Shaklee… • Deliver consulting (architecture and performance) and training (all of Zend’s courses) • Married, have a 14 months old daughter and 2 persian cats • During little free time I fly (but mostly crash) R/C planes and helicopters2

About the session • Covers Zend Server’s monitoring and profiling features • Monitoring and code tracing through application examples • Session is demo-based3

Problem Statement • Applications get developed and deployed on disparate environments • Focus typically on speed of development (time crunches), which can leave sub-optimal code performance-wise • Test data typically different than production data  Production data sets are typically much larger, leading to different scenarios  Production users are notorious for entering data that makes the application break • Failure, and especially performance problem reports are vague • They are also very difficult to reproduce4

So how do we capture those problems as soon as they occur?5

The application • Needed an application to demo • Customer applications and examples would have been ideal but… • Created BeerIOU • DISCLAIMER: The application is intentionally written not to follow best practices, and has bad code6

The problems Slow page • Captured a slow request execution event • The Monitor and its rules • How do we diagnose it?  By using code tracing • Problem was that API randomly took long times to load7

The problems PHP errors • Captured a PHP error event • How do we diagnose it?  By using code tracing • Problem was that API changed return format8

The problems High memory usage • Captured a High memory usage • How do we diagnose it?  By using code tracing • Problem was that favorite beers DD has too many entries instantiated into objects • Caching is not always the best option9

The problems Slow web service • Maintaining highly scalable infrastructure means being able to predict response times • The less time an Apache process spends serving a request the better • When dealing with unpredictable loads, offload the request processing (using Job Queue for example)10

Performance impact of monitoring and code tracing • Monitoring is not free (in terms of resources, not like free beer)  Stress/load test with monitoring and CT enabled/disabled  Results may vary ;) • Code tracing buffer  Larger means more memory  Can run in stand-by mode11

Monitoring and code tracing on/off benchmark • Test-get-beer 10 seconds, 6 concurrent requests cache enabed cache disabled Monitoring and CT off 3.65 rps / 298Mb 1.40 rps / 226Mb Monitoring ON, CT off 3.39 rps / 315 Mb 1.37 rps / 280Mb Monitoring and CT on 3.37 rps / 327 Mb 1.28 rps / 275Mb rps % on/off 108.31% 109.38% Memory % on/off 109.73% 121.68%12

Home page • Home 10 seconds, 6 concurrent requests cache enabed Monitoring and CT off 79.59 rps / 52.7Mb Monitoring ON, CT off 79.59 rps / 63.4 Mb Monitoring and CT on 79.20 rps / 68.4 Mb rps % on/off +/-0% Memory % 129.79%13

Additional features • Events can be set up to send emails  Default for all events  Individually per event • Events management (open, closed, re-open, ignore) • Monitor and Code tracing’s main advantages  They can run un production (Optimizer + is always active)  Easy interface, easy to use • Monitoring can be disabled on a per-page basis  Using zend_monitor_event_reporting API14

Conclusion • Monitoring is an essential part of application lifecycle  Applies both for development and production • Not enough to rely on inaccurate reports • Some sysadmin tools (Gomez, Splunk, Xymon, Cacti) are great for server monitoring but none monitor PHP itself internally15

Next steps • Download Zend Server (http://www.zend.com/en/products/server/) • Generate a 30 day trial license (http://www.zend.com/en/products/server/license) • Test it out with your own application16

Questions? Questions?17

Thank you Thank you Email: maurice.k@zend.com Twitter: twitter/mkherlakian Linekdin: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/mkherlakian The full source code for this demo can be found at: git@github.com:mkherlakian/BeerIOU18

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