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F# in the cloud
The document details the cloud computing practices of Gamesys, a major gaming company known for real money gaming on Facebook, which processes significant data daily using various cloud services. It emphasizes the benefits of cloud computing such as cost efficiency, scalability, and operational agility, particularly in managing game servers. Moreover, it discusses the advantages of using F# in game development for enhancing efficiency and simplicity in handling asynchronous operations.
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F# in the cloud
- 1. F# in the Cloudand at Scale Yan Cui (@theburningmonk) Image by Mike Rohde
- 2. Who is Gamesys? •Founded in 2001 • #1 in the UK • Handle $5 Billion in turnover annually • First company to launch real money gaming on Facebook • Employ 1,000 globally
- 6. Running in theCloud, at Scale • 1 Million DAU • 250 Million requests/day • 7 Billion rows of analytics events/month • 2 TB of analytics data/month
- 7. Running in theCloud, at Scale • 100% cloud hosted • AWS for Game services • Google App Engine for back-office services • NoSQL databases – DynamoDB, CouchBase, Redis, Neo4j, ... • Google BigQuery for analytics
- 8. What is theCloud? Cloud computing is an expression used to describe a variety of computing concepts that involve a large number of computers connected through a real-time communication network such as the Internet.... Such virtual servers do not physically exist and can therefore be moved around and scaled up (or down) on the fly without affecting the end user arguably, rather like a cloud. - Wikipedia
- 9. What is theCloud? IaaS PaaS SaaS VMs, load balancers, storage, ... Runtime, databa se, web servers, ... Virtual desktop, games, emails, ...
- 10. Why the Cloud? •Trade capital cost with operating cost • Lower operating cost • Elastic scaling • Speed and agility • Focus on what differentiates your product • Global infrastructure for your global audience
- 11. Why the Cloud- Scalability • Scale up • Scale out • Scale everything! – Your architecture is as scalable as its least scalable part • Scalability != simple choice of language/framework
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- 15. Stateful Server EC2 Elastic LoadBalancer CloudFront Server A Server B ... Auto scaling Group S3
- 16. Stateful Server • Needto ensure Server affinity – All calls need to be routed to the affined server • Need to balance load – Session lengths vary greatly – Some players are more active than others – Need to avoid hot spots • Need to avoid players hogging a server – Need to be able to scale down!
- 17. Stateful Server • Persistplayer state after short inactivity • Move player to another server after persistence
- 18. Why Stateful Server? •500% efficiency increase • 60% reduction in avg latency • Fewer game servers • No CouchBase cluster • Huge saving on cost
- 19. The Actor Model Anactor is the fundamental unit of computation which embodies the 3 things • Processing • Storage • Communication that are essential to computation. -Carl Hewitt* * http://bit.ly/HoNHbG
- 20. The Actor Model •Everything is an actor • An actor has a mailbox • When an actor receives a message it can: – Create new actors – Send messages to actors it has addresses for – Designate how to handle the next message it receives
- 21. Stateful Server • Gatekeeper –Manages the local list of active workers – Spawns new workers • Worker – Manages the states for a player – Optimistic locking – Persist state after period of inactivity
- 22. Stateful Server Asynchronous Player B RequestHandlers Player A Gatekeeper S3 Worker C Worker B Game Server
- 23. Stateful Server Asynchronous Worker A PlayerA Request Handlers Player B ok Gatekeeper S3 Worker C Worker B Game Server
- 24. Stateful Server Asynchronous Worker A PlayerB Request Handlers Player A Gatekeeper S3 Worker C Worker B Game Server
- 25. Stateful Server Asynchronous Worker A PlayerB Request Handlers Player A Gatekeeper Worker C Game Server S3
- 26. Stateful Server Asynchronous Worker A PlayerB Request Handlers Player A Gatekeeper Worker C Game Server S3
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- 33. Why F#? • Timeto Market • Efficiency • Correctness • Complexity
- 34. Why F#? • Agents –No locks – Asynchronous message passing – Each actor is self-contained and easier to reason with • Pattern matching – Clear and concise way to handle all branch conditions
- 35. Why F#? • AsyncWorkflows – Non-blocking IO – Convert synchronous code into asynchronous code with minimal code changes – Similar to C# 5’s async-await feature, but available in F# since 2007!
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Editor's Notes
- #11 Lowers the cost of failure
- #35 The biggest advantage of programming with the Actor model, for me, is the fact that each actor is self-contained and implements an explicit protocol, hence making them very easy to reason with and often it’s possible to look at the code and know that there’s obviously no defect rather than no obvious defect, and that distinction is important.The only operation with the inbox which requires synchronization (as far as I know) is with selective receive using inbox.Scan, otherwise, it’s inherently single-threaded inside the body of an agent (a property of the Actor model).