Aerospike Israel Online Webinar: Handling Increasing Load and Reducing Costs During COVID-19 Crisis - Elad Leev AppsFlyer 26 April 2020

1. COVID-19 Crisis
growth

2. Elad Leev
Platform Engineer
Who am I?

3. AppsFlyer
in a Nutshell

4. AppsFlyer is a mobile
attribution and analytics
platform
AppsFlyer in a Nutshell

5. AppsFlyer in a Nutshell

7. AppsFlyer in a Nutshell
100+
Billion
1+
Million
Incoming HTTP
requests/sec
Events per day
20+
Aerospike Clusters

8. Why Aerospike?
Some of our use cases
include
Storing 250B+ apps clicks
Attribution Flow
KV for OneLink™ product
Caching

9. Why Aerospike?
Sub-millisecond reads are
crucial to our real time
attribution flow.

10. COVID 19 Crisis
https://www.appsflyer.com/coronavirus-marketing-updates/

11. Key Findings
+35%
Health
& Fitness
+18%
Finance
+25%
Food
Delivery
+15%
Shopping

12. Key Findings - US 󾓦
+154%
Revenue
Education
+28%
Revenue
Shopping
+22%
+13%
+12%
+9%
Midcore Games
Casual
Social Casino
Hardcore Games

13. Key Findings - UK 󾓪
+265%
Revenue
Education
+60%
Revenue
Health &
Fitness
+47% / +73%
Installs / Revenue
Shopping

14. Key Findings - Italy 󾓩
+155% / +100%
Installs / Revenue
Health
& Fitness
+80% / +100%
Installs / Revenue
Shopping
+115% / +50%
Installs / Revenue
Gaming -
Social Casino

15. at

16. 20 Aerospike Clusters
Most clusters are i3 series machines
Each cluster on different AZ
Two way XDR
Client side sharding
(github.com/AppsFlyer/aerospike-clj)
Aerospike at Appsflyer
Some Numbers

17. How do we
handle
COVID-19
growth?

18. Always make sure we are slightly
over provisioned
Visibility & Alerts
Handle Growth
Basic rules

19. Adding machines in batches
Migrations takes time under load
Handle Growth
Basic rules

20. Mitigate the migrations using
Aerospike dynamic configuration
Handle Growth
Basic rules
migrate-threads
migrate-max-num-incoming
migrate-sleep
https://www.aerospike.com/docs/operations/manage/migration/

21. @eladleev
Thank You!
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