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Elizabeth Leddy@eleddy

Tools, Tips, and Techniques for Approaching Scalability

am I in the right room?Symptoms Include

inability to grow with traditional caching solutions, icky system performance, crashitis, log-o-phobia,

hardware anemia, mashup mayhem, diminishing confidence in your abilities as plone integrator or

administrator, where do I start migraines, all the rest of the talks look boring, this room has better internet connectivity, I

have no clue what I’m doing here

A responsive, scalable Plone setup has little to do with optimizing code

CONFUCIUSSAY

Measure, Measure, MeasureMeasure, Measure, Measure

Measure, Measure, MeasureMeasure, Measure, Measure

Measure, Measure, MeasureMeasure, Measure, Measure

Act

Measure, Measure, MeasureMeasure, Measure, Measure

Measure, Measure, Measure

CUSTOM PLUGINS

AUTO-RESTART

Monitoring Tools

ALERTS

MUNIN MONIT

GANGLIA ZOPE HEALTH WATCHER

ABNORMALITIES

TIME BASED GRAPHS

TIMEOUTS

I quit...

AFFECTION

Watching Bad PerformancesWhale watchers are triggered by system abnormalities, and grab relevant information to help you diagnose what happened.

Simple(r) Error MonitoringSludge Through Logs

Escalate with Email

Google Analytics for Timeouts, 4XX & 5XX

4 Stages of System Grief

HTTPD

CACHE

PROXY

ZOPE

DB CACHE

ZEO

Anger BargainingDenial

ZOPE++ ZOPE++++

HTTPD^N

CACHES

PROXY

ZOPE^N

DB CACHES

ZEO & CO.

Acceptance

LB

LB

ZEO SHARD

HTTPD HTTPD

PROXY

ZEO SHARD

HTTPD

ZOPE

ZEO

ZODB CACHE

VARNISH

SQUID

HAPROXY

MEMCACHE

POUND

RAM

CPU DISK

ZEO CACHE?

HARDWARE

OW MUCH

NGINX

Two’s Company, Three’s a Crowd

DB CACHE ZOPE++

How many zopes should I have?

2 zopes/cpu50% avg util

api/async instances?

ZOPE++

Complex by Default

The CacheFu Conundrum

Oh, CacheFu you have been a great leader and I wish I would have taken the

time to figure out how caching really works. I’m afraid I will fail you, never fully

understanding the 304. Shame!

The browser is the cheapest, easiest caching tool at your disposal, Daniel-son. It’s time to show the world you are the developer I know you can be...

user.gif link_icon.gif poo.gif

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httpdplone

RewriteRule ^/(.*)portal_skins/mysite_images/(.*) /mysite_images/$2 [L]

Serve STATIC content from a STATIC web server to unload plone, provide faster response time to initial requests,and enable simpler cachingstrategies

HTTPD

.contenttype-folder{ background-image: url(folder.gif);}

30 requests, ~200 kb

CSS & Sprites

.contenttype-folder{ background-image: url(all-my-images.png); background-position: 75px 25px;}

1 request, ~18 kb

UNLOAD

HTTPD

Picking a Proxy or:How I learned to stop worrying and love HAProxy

graceful reloads

backend health

distribution algorithms

warmup time

preserve keepalives

web based stats

PROXY

if python < 2.6: socket.settimeout(2)else: urllib2.urlopen(url, timeout=2)

ZEO & CO.

Playing Nice with Others

ZOPE++

Pickle Drop

PickupProcess

Callback

Pickle Me Some Asynchronicity

ZOPE++

tal:on-errorZEO & CO.

EXTERNAL DATA ST.

ACCEPTANCEZEO is perfect for object

oriented access, but it needs a little help with other data

access paradigms

ZEO & CO.

RESTARTing zope is NOT a SIN

a PACKED zodb is a HAPPY zodb

CRON is fabrics’ HOMEBOY

FACTS

beware of backup side effects

deploy with 1-step rolling blackouts

sometimes its just easier...

ZOPE

ZEO & CO.

ON BACKUPS

watch the disk

use repozo

chunked rsync

ZEO & CO.

Plone != Drupal Scalability = Talent + Hardware

The Oath:

I will automate a modular installation of everything

I will not do anything manually that could be done automatically, which is everything

I can trigger unscheduled processes anytime, from anywhere

I appreciate that scaling is hard: the cloud offers options, not solutions

Living in the Cloud

‣ Always setup system and error monitoring first

‣ Choose the right software for YOUR hardware

‣ Use as many zopes as possible but no more

‣ Do it like a flickr engineer

‣ Don’t make zope handle unnecessary requests

‣ Never underestimate the importance of a proper disk-RAM partnership

‣ Design processes to be able to run from anywhere, at anytime, on any machine

SUMMARY

Thank You!

All this and more athttp://scalingplone.pbwiki.com