leveraging a distributed architecture to your advantage

TO YOUR ADVANTAGE LEVERAGING A DISTRIBUTED ARCHITECTURE

WHO AM I?

MICHELANGELO VAN DAM

▸ Professional PHP architect

▸ President PHPBenelux

▸ Coach at CoderDojo

▸ Contributor to open source projects

▸ Zend Certified Engineer

WHO AM I?






▸ Zend Certified Engineer Rafael Dohms

@rdohms

WHO AM I?






▸ Zend Certified Engineer Rafael Dohms

@rdohmsMe

@DragonBe

SINGLE LAMP STACK

WHAT IS A LAMP STACK?

A COMMON ACRONYM

▸ Linux

▸ Apache

▸ MySQL

▸ PHP

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WHY USED?

SMALL WEB APPLICATIONS

▸ WordPress blogs

▸ Joomla marketing sites

▸ Drupal business sites

▸ TYPO3 publications

▸ A lot more …

SIMPLICITY IS ULTIMATELY A MATTER OF FOCUS.

Ann Voskamp

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BENEFITS GALORE

WE LOVE EASY

▸ Single point of concern

▸ Easy to maintain

▸ Easy to distribute

▸ Easy to protect

NOT ALL SUNSHINE

DOESN'T SCALE WELL

▸ Increase of users

▸ Huge amount of data

▸ Additional logic or features

▸ Compliance requirements

MORE WE LIKE

Fatalerror:Allowedmemorysizeof268435456bytesexhausted(triedtoallocate77bytes)in/path/to/MassiveClass.phponline666

WE NEED TO SCALE!

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SCALING MISTAKE #1: DON’T ADD MORE MACHINES AND THINK YOU’RE SCALED.

Remember this!!!

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SOME WISDOM

SCALE WITH PURPOSE

▸ Separate based on responsibility

▸ Pinpoint your weakest link

▸ You need more of them

▸ Look for “alternate” (better) solutions

▸ e.g. Nginx vs. Apache

▸ Don’t over-scale

PHP-FPM MySQL

LinuxLinux

NGINX

PHP-FPM

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IS YOUR APP READY TO BE SCALED?

Find the “hard” requirements!

ANALYSING YOUR CODE

SOMETHING TO LOOK OUT FOR

resources.db.params.host = "database.server.tld" resources.db.params.port = 3306 resources.db.params.username = "fda23a84" resources.db.params.password = "b10a8db164e0754105b7a99be72e3fe5" resources.db.params.dbname = "webapp" resources.db.isDefaultTableAdapter = true

REPLACE WITH SOMETHING THAT CHANGES OUTSIDE YOUR APP

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES CAN HELP

resources.db.params.host = WEBAPP_DB_HOST resources.db.params.port = WEBAPP_DB_PORT resources.db.params.username = WEBAPP_DB_USERNAME resources.db.params.password = WEBAPP_DB_PASSWORD resources.db.params.dbname = WEBAPP_DB_DBNAME resources.db.isDefaultTableAdapter = WEBAPP_DB_DEFAULT

HOW SOMETHING SIMPLE THINGS BECOMES VERY COMPLEX VERY QUICKLY

MORE ITEMS ADDED


MORE ITEMS ADDED

▸ Caching


MORE ITEMS ADDED

▸ Caching

▸ Search engine


MORE ITEMS ADDED

▸ Caching

▸ Search engine

▸ Load balancer


MORE ITEMS ADDED

▸ Caching

▸ Search engine

▸ Load balancer

▸ Replication


MORE ITEMS ADDED

▸ Caching

▸ Search engine

▸ Load balancer

▸ Replication

▸ Queues


MORE ITEMS ADDED

▸ Caching

▸ Search engine

▸ Load balancer

▸ Replication

▸ Queues

▸ Workers


MORE ITEMS ADDED

▸ Caching

▸ Search engine

▸ Load balancer

▸ Replication

▸ Queues

▸ Workers

▸ API’s


MORE ITEMS ADDED

▸ Caching

▸ Search engine

▸ Load balancer

▸ Replication

▸ Queues

▸ Workers

▸ API’s

▸ and even more things …

PHP-FPM

NGINXShared FS

MariaDB

MariaDB

MariaDB

MongoDB

MongoDB

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Redis Cache

Redis Cache

Redis Cache

ElasticSearch ElasticSearch

Varnish

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EVENT SOURCING: GBC (MARCO PIVETTA)

MUST-SEE PRESENTATION

MAKING CHOICES

ON PREM

ON PREM

CLOUD

ON PREM

HOSTED

CLOUD

MOVE TO THE “CLOUD”, TRUST ME I’M A PROFESSIONAL!!!

Source: The Register 2015-09-20

Source: CBS News 2017-02-28

Source: Forbes 2014-11-18

Source: ZDNet 2016-09-15

Source: C|Net 2009-06-29

Source: The Register 2016-04-20

Source: InfoWorld 2013-03-22

THIS IS BAD!!!NO NEED TO SAY…

SCALING MISTAKE #2: PUT ALL YOUR EGGS IN ONE BASKET.

Remember this!!!

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STRATEGY IS KEY!

ONLINE?WHAT DID WE DO TO STAY

CAN YOU LIVE WITH REDUCED CAPACITY BUT STAY ONLINE?

First question to clients

Hosted / On Premise

DynamoDB

EC2 EC2

Elas-csearchRDS-MySQLInstance

SQSQueueS3

Elas-cLoadBalancing

CloudFront

CloudSearch

West Europe

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CloudSearch

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CloudSearch

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WARNING: THIS MEANS YOU NEED TO REPLICATE ALL TRANSACTIONS OVER BOTH CLOUD PROVIDERS!!! (COST X 2)

SCALING MISTAKE #3: NOT READY FOR DISASTER

Remember this!!!

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RESILIENCE TESTING

NETFLIX SIMIAN ARMY

▸ Chaos Monkey

▸ Chaos Gorilla

▸ Chaos Kong

▸ Janitor Monkey

▸ Doctor Monkey

▸ Compliance Monkey

▸ Latency Monkey

▸ Security Monkey

ALWAYS PREPARE FOR THE WORST…

…so you’re ready when it happens.

SCALING MISTAKE #4: DON’T AUTOMATE YOUR DEPLOYMENT PROCESSES

Remember this!!!

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Build Feedback

Execute Delivery

SCMCommits SCM Change

Pollingtest

staging

production

Unit tests Metrics

Provisioningnew target

Provisioningdatabases

Provisioningworkers

Integrationtests

Promotebranch

CI

Unit tests Metrics

Provisioningnew target

Provisioningdatabases

Provisioningworkers

Integrationtests

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AUTOMATE YOUR DEPLOYMENT PROCESS

So you can deploy multiple times a day.

WHAT TO TAKE HOME FROM THIS TALK

RECAP

▸ Prepare you code to scale and distribute

▸ When online is important, scale over multiple hosting options

▸ Test your resilience for failure

▸ Automate your processes

▸ Build pipelines for all tasks

▸ Release with confidence

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