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The Prisoner’s Dilemma
& SOAs
Lessons from Amazon, Google, and Lucidchart
By Derrick Isaacson
http://theinspirationroom.com/daily/print/2009/1/wrigleys_orbit_interrogation.jpg
“Can I get
that without
the bacon?”
- no one ever
http://www.food.com/photo-finder/all/bacon?photog=1072593
http://baconipsum.com/?paras=1&type=all-meat&start-with-lorem=1
https://qzprod.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/costco-retail-web.jpg?w=1600
“Wow, that was a cheap trip
to Costco” - no one ever
http://www.someecards.com/usercards/viewcard/MjAxMi03YWZiMjJiMTg3NDFhYTUy
I can’t remember if that getter function takes 100ns or 100ms.
- no one ever
• Should I try to abstract away this service request as a
“remote procedure call”?
• 6 orders of magnitude difference!
My front-side bus only fails for 1 second every 17 minutes!
- no one ever
• 99.9% availability
Our internet only supports .NET.
- no one ever
• Do your clients rely on an SDK?
Distributed System Architectures
Does it have to be “Service-oriented”?
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/da/KL_CoreMemory.jpg
Distributed Memory
RPC
<I’m>
<not>
<making>
<a>
<service>
<request>
<I’m>
<just>
<calling>
<a>
<procedure>
Distributed File System
mount -t nfs -o proto=tcp,port=2049 nfs-server:/ /mnt
Distributed Data Stores
• Replicated MySQL
• Mongo
• S3
• RDS
• BigTable
• Cassandra
…
P2P
Streaming Media
Service-oriented Architecture Attempt
Social Bookmarking App
GET /profiles/123
GET /users/123
Calculate something
GET /users/123/permissions
If user can’t view profile
send 403
POST /eventFeed {new profile view}
GET /users/123/friends
GET /bookmarks?userId=123
GET /catalog/books?ids=1,3,10
Calculate something else
GET /bookmarks/trending
Send HTML
Failure calling a service?
Simple SOA Availability
<98.7%
99.5%
99.8%
99.6%
.995 * .998 * .998 * .996 = 0.987
Early days Lucidchart by Status Code
96.5%
2xx or
3xx
Early days Lucidchart 1 second Latencies
10.8%
> 1s
What Happened?!?
How can a SOA make my app better!
"A distributed system is at best a
necessary evil, evil because of the extra
complexity...
or perhaps better put, a sensible
engineering decision given the trade-offs
involved."
-David Cheriton, Distributed Systems Lecture Notes, ch. 1
The CAP Theorem
http://learnyousomeerlang.com/distribunomicon
The CAP Theorem1
• Safety – nothing bad ever happens
• Liveness – good things happen
• Unreliability – network dis-connectivity,
crash failures, message loss, Byzantine
failures, slowdown, etc.
• Consistency – every response sent to a
client is correct
• Availability – every request gets a
response
• Partition tolerance – operating in the
face of arbitrary failures
Consistency:
Nothing Bad
Happens
Assumption: Failures Happen
Availability Consistency
GET /profiles/123
GET /users/123
Calculate something
GET /users/123/permissions
If user can’t view profile
send 403
POST /eventFeed {new profile view}
GET /users/123/friends
GET /bookmarks?userId=123
GET /catalog/books?ids=1,3,10
Calculate something else
GET /bookmarks/trending
Send response
ResponseHandler<User> handler = new ResponseHandler<User>()
{
public User handleResponse(
final HttpResponse response) {
int status = response.getStatusLine().getStatusCode();
if (status >= 200 && status < 300) {
HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();
return entity != null ? Parser.parse(entity) : null;
} else {
…
}
}
};
HttpGet userGet = new HttpGet("http://example.com/users/123");
User user = httpclient.execute(userGet, handler);
https://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client-4.3.x/examples.html
Works great to calculate a user!
Best Effort Availability -
Guaranteed consistency
Best Effort Consistency -
Guaranteed availability
Amazon Checkout
http://highscalability.com/amazon-architecture
“WOW
I really regret
sacrificing
consistency for
availability”
-said no amazon ever That’s $74 Billion
Google File System: relaxed consistency model
Throughput
Latency
Hang Consistency!
Add:
• Caching
• Timeouts
• Retries
• Guessing
• Anything!
Anti-entropy
Added energy to combat failure
Tip 1:
HTTP
Caching
Availability/Performance Consistency
Tip 2: HTTP Caching as Fallback
Tip 3: Retries
• Exponential backoffs & max retries
Tip 3: HTTP Caching Technologies
• Apache HttpComponents – HttpClient Cache
• Ehcache
• Redis
• Memcached
• CloudFront
• Akamai
• Berkeley DB
• AWS SNS (for notifying caches components of changes)
Segmenting CAP
A is highly available and B is highly consistent
Segmenting Consistency and Availability
1. Data Partitioning
Shopping Cart
Warehouse Inventory DB
Segmenting
2. Operation Partitioning
Reads
Writes
Dynamo PNUTS&
Segmenting
3. Functional partitioning
User Service, Document Snapshots
Document Service
Segmenting
4. Hierarchical Partitioning
Leaves
Root
http://www.slashgear.com/google-data-center-hd-photos-hit-where-the-internet-lives-gallery-17252451/
Data Driven Design 1
Timeouts & Retries
Final Tip: Data driven design
• Max I/O wait time = # of threads * (CONNECT_TIMEOUT +
READ_TIMEOUT)
• 9 front end servers received 1900 requests in 60 seconds and 300
for Flickr resources (16%).
• 35 requests per server per minute
• Max 100 threads, => 6,000 thread seconds in one minute
• Goal: ensure < 10% of thread seconds spent blocked on Flickr I/O
• 600 < 35 requests * (CONNECT_TIMEOUT + READ_TIMEOUT)
• CONNECT_TIMEOUT + READ_TIMEOUT < 17 seconds
TCP Connect
Send
Request Block on socket read Read response
CONNECT_TIMEOU
T
READ_TIMEOUT
Data Driven Design 2
Caching
Best Effort Consistency System
99.9%
99.5%
99.8%
99.6%
Wow, my
pizza has too
many
toppings
- no one ever
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/60/Pizza_Hut_Meat_Lover's_pizza_3.JPG
“WOW
My system has
too much
availability.”
-no one ever
Questions?
golucid.co
http://www.slideshare.net/DerrickIsaacson
References
1. Perspectives on the CAP Theorem
2. Bacon Ipsum
3. Brewer’s Conjecture and the Feasibility of Consistent, Available, Partition-Tolerant
Web
4. The Google File System
5. Big Table
6. Amazon Architecture References
7. Apache HttpComponents
8. Apache HttpClient Cache
9. Ehcache

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Prisoner's Dilemma and Service-oriented Architectures

Editor's Notes

  1. Effective SOA: Lessons from Amazon, Google, and Lucidchart It has been observed that "A distributed system is at best a necessary evil, evil because of the extra complexity." Multiple nodes computing on inconsistent state with regular communication failures present entirely different challenges than those computer science students face in the classroom writing DFS algorithms. The past 30 years have seen some interesting theories and architectures to deal with these complexities in what we now call "cloud computing". Some researchers worked on "distributed memory" and others built "remote procedure calls". More commercially successful architectures of late have popularized ideas like the CAP theorem, distributed caches, and REST. Using examples from companies like Amazon and Google this presentation walks through some practical tips to evolve your service-oriented architecture. Google's Chubby service demonstrates how you can take advantage of CAP's "best effort availability" options and Amazon's "best effort consistency" services show the other end of the spectrum. Practical lessons learned from Lucidchart's forays into SOA share insight through quantitative analyses on how to make your system highly available. Bio: Derrick Isaacson is the Director of Engineering for Lucid Software Inc (lucidchart.com). He has a BS in EE from BYU and an MS in CS from Stanford. He's developed big services at Amazon, web platforms for Microsoft, and graphical apps at Lucidchart. Derrick has two patent applications at Microsoft and Domo. For fun he cycles, backpacks, and takes his son out in their truck.
  2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner%27s_dilemma http://www.acting-man.com/?p=34313
  3. Multiple nodes computing on inconsistent state with regular communication failures present entirely different challenges than those computer science students face in the classroom writing DFS algorithms.
  4. Multiple nodes computing on inconsistent state with regular communication failures present entirely different challenges than those computer science students face in the classroom writing DFS algorithms.
  5. Multiple nodes computing on inconsistent state with regular communication failures present entirely different challenges than those computer science students face in the classroom writing DFS algorithms.
  6. Idea: Nothing’s more familiar to programmers than reading from and writing to memory? We access variables all day long. Why not make distributed state access look like simple memory access? We can use modern operating systems’ support for virtual memory to “swap in” memory that is located on another machine. Problem: How often do you go to access a variable and can’t because a section of memory is “down”? How do you provide a mutex to parallel threads of execution? How can the distributed memory layer be efficient when it has no knowledge of the application?
  7. Idea: Next to memory access, nothing’s more familiar to programmers than functional calls. Can we make distributed state transfer look like a simple procedure call? SOAP! Problems: How often do you retry a method call because the JVM failed to invoke it the first time? Why does incrementing a value take 100 milliseconds? Why does your internet only support .NET and PHP (stub compiler/SDK)?
  8. Idea: Easy network file sharing. NFS, AFS, GFS Works great for files.
  9. Idea: Easy network file sharing. NFS, AFS, GFS Works great for files.
  10. Idea: How could you steal bandwidth from universities and avoid infringement lawsuits at the same time? Problems: Mooching resources is a great business model but a terrible architecture if that’s not what you’re going for.
  11. Idea: I have so much state I don’t want to transfer it all in a single response. http://www.therufus.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/221-Sherlock-Holmes-Poster.jpg
  12. What’s the availability of the overall system if a single response for service A is calculated by making 4 total requests to services B, C, and D? If the average availabilities of those 3 components are as given, and the random values are modeled as IID, what is the maximum percentage of requests is service A able to calculate correctly? .995 * .998 * .998 * .996 = 0.987 IID is a bad assumption for nearly any distributed system, but it illustrates the effective of naively distributing computation. When crash failures originating at service A are included, the total availability is < 98.7%! That’s an average of 19 minutes of downtime per day!
  13. Conjecture made by UC Berkely computer scientist, Eric Brewer, in 2000 Gilbert & Lynch published a formal proof
  14. Conjecture made by UC Berkely computer scientist in 2000 Gilbert & Lynch published a formal proof
  15. We want the user to 1) get a response (available) and 2) have it be consistent with the view of other nodes. From that end user definition, a slow, error status, or non-existent response are all “incorrect”.
  16. “In order to model partition tolerance, the network will be allowed to lose arbitrarily many messages sent from one node to another.” – Gilbert & Lynch http://lpd.epfl.ch/sgilbert/pubs/BrewersConjecture-SigAct.pdf It becomes a fundamental tradeoff between availability and consistency.
  17. It turns out the usual approach to implementing a computation like this errs on the side of consistency. If a single service request fails, this calculation hangs or returns an error to the user.
  18. It drops below the SLA for a consistent, available response perhaps 5 of every 1000 requests.
  19. “For the checkout process you always want to honor requests to add items to a shopping cart because it's revenue producing. In this case you choose high availability. Errors are hidden from the customer and sorted out later.” http://highscalability.com/amazon-architecture
  20. Web crawler, Big Table “our access patterns are highly stylized” “GFS has a relaxed consistency model that supports our highly distributed applications well but remains relatively simple and efficient to implement.” “Record append’s append-at-least-once semantics preserves each writer’s output. Readers deal with the occasional padding and duplicates as follows. Each record prepared by the writer contains extra information like checksums so that its validity can be verified. A reader can identify and discard extra padding and record fragments using the checksums. If it cannot tolerate the occasional duplicates (e.g., if they would trigger non-idempotent operations), it can filter them out using unique identifiers in the records, which are often needed anyway to name corresponding application entities such as web documents.”
  21. The Amazon Dynamo and Yahoo PNUTS data stores support high read availability while limiting write availability in the face of partitions. For example, Dynamo has a configurable number of replicas on which the data must be stored before a write is confirmed to the client.
  22. Network partitions are less frequent at the leaves of a geographically hierarchical system.
  23. The CAP theorem appears to have implications for scalability. “Intuitively, we think of a system as scalable if it can grow efficiently, using new resources efficiently to handle more load. In order to efficiently use new resources, there must be coordination among those resources;” – Gilbert & Lynch
  24. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner%27s_dilemma http://www.acting-man.com/?p=34313
  25. Wow, that guy must be an engineer – said no one ever