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Cost Optimized Logging Using API
Gateway, SQS and ElasticSearch

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Mitesh Sharma
Tech Lead at Kiwi India Pvt Ltd
Find Me:
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Twitter : https://twitter.com/mitesh_dev
Github : https://github.com/MiteshSharma
Who Am I?

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What We Do?

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Joyride App
Play Social Real Time Interactive Game Shows
Players Can Win Real Cash Prizes

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Game shows are fun to play
Social interaction in real time games
Players can play in team or solo
Players win real cash
During game shows, multiple messages exchanges in real time
In last 1 minute of game show start, everyone enters app

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What Problem We Want To
Solve?

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Identify customer issues during game show,
fix them and give them best experience

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How to solve customer issues?

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Capture logs, understand them, identify
issues, pinpoint code where things went
wrong and fix them

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Client App
Logs on
server
Investigate

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Solution should be robust, cost effective and
scalable

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What we build?

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Route53
Cloudfront
Log
Service
MongoDB
EBSELB

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How to scale as traffic
increases?

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Auto Scaling group helps with cost and handle huge traffic

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Auto Scaling group helps with cost and handle huge traffic
All users come in less than a minute, so auto scaling can’t help

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Auto Scaling group helps with cost and handle huge traffic
All users come in less than a minute, so auto scaling can’t help
Use time based instances

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Auto Scaling group helps with cost and handle huge traffic
All users come in less than a minute, so auto scaling can’t help
Use time based instances
Once game show ends, traffic becomes normal
Multiple game shows scheduled one after another
Effectively need to keep all instances running for whole day
Cost of running multiple instances are high

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What other components were
taking up cost?

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● Self hosted MongoDB cluster
● MongoDB needed high IOPS EBS to write these logs as
they arrive
● Used Provisioned IOPS EBS
● When there is less traffic, still paying for high provisioned
IOPS
● Needed to write queries for fetching data from MongoDB
● Build custom dashboard for logs

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What can go wrong here?

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Route53
Cloudfront
Log
Service
MongoDB
EBSELB
Crash
Crash

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How we solved these problems?

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Route53
Cloudfront API Gateway SQS ElasticSearchFetcher
Kibana

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Why we choose each service?

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AWS API Gateway

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● Easy to manage
● Easy to scale
● No minimum fees
● Act as Proxy
● Endpoints are public
● Easy monitoring using cloudwatch
● Perfect for our use case

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Route53
Cloudfront API Gateway

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AWS SQS

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● Messaging queue service
● Reliable and scalable
● No minimum fees
● Provides decoupling
● Resilience
● Push/Pull architecture
● At-least-once delivery guarantee
● Easy monitoring using cloudwatch
● Receive messages from API Gateway for later processing

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Route53
Cloudfront API Gateway SQS

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AWS ElasticSearch With Kibana

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● Real time, distributed, search and analytics engine
● Schema free
● Developer friendly REST APIs
● Easy to deploy and manage cluster
● Secure
● Comes with build-in Kibana
● Kibana provides visualization of data in elasticsearch

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Route53
Cloudfront API Gateway SQS ElasticSearch
Kibana

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Fetcher Service

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● Custom java service
● Periodically polling
● Send messages to Elasticsearch
● Dynamic polling behaviour
● Delete messages once processed

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Route53
Cloudfront API Gateway SQS ElasticSearchFetcher
Kibana

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What can go wrong here?

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Route53
Cloudfront API Gateway SQS ElasticSearchFetcher
Kibana
Crash

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Learning

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● Use managed services and focus on solving problem
● SQS can be really good in making asynchronous architecture
● Add alerts on SQS message duration
● Push messages in bulk in elasticsearch
● Keep deleting old messages from elasticsearch
● Cost is part of your efficient architecture
● Making customer happy is not easy

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