NYT faбrik

TimesOpen – 12 September 2012

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Who

Architect Infrastructure Group Previous

– US Army– Harvard– Tech companies– United Nations

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What we’ll cover

A story faбrik overview Code and demo

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Takeaways

Application Developer– Demand ‘events’ (no polling, no thanks, been there, done that)– Demand infrastructure that scales and you don’t have to worry about

Infrastructure Engineer– Decouple, flatten, simplify– Outsource complexity

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The Story: Harvard U, 1986+

Bad: – No Internet (pre-web)– data locked in mainframe– large central clerical staff– monolithic central systems

Good:– Vision of an Information Utility– desire to innovate– lots of desktop computers (30,000)– email everywhere although over diverse networks and technologies

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The Story: Harvard U, 1986+

Solution: – Relational database (decouple data from application)– Email backbone (decouple producers from consumers)– Event-driven desktop applications (flatten)– Identical code on mainframe (simplify)

Result:– Data warehouse unlocked (before the term was coined)– Central clerical staff functions upgraded/dispersed– Old central systems replaceable and, ultimately, replaced– Happy users!

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faбrik – Why?

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NYT Mission

Enhance society by creating, collecting and distributing high quality news, information and entertainment

- Distributing: publish / subscribe- Collecting: gather / analyze- High Quality: fast, reliable, accurate

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faбrik

Asynchronous Messaging Framework

For client devices as well as our apps

Enabled by:– Websockets– Robust message handling software– Amazon Web Services

Focusing on simple, common services

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faбrik – solve the problem!

App

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faбrik – basic

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Message Broker

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Amazon Web Services

• EC2• S3• Identity &

Access Mgt• DynamoDB• Route 53…

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faбrik – basic++

OtherApp

AppBuddy

Service Buddy

Message Broker

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“Retail”

“Wholesale”

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faбrik: Current Implementation

Open source– Erlang/OTP– RabbitMQ– Nodejs – Sockjs (websockets +)– Python (gevent, select/epoll, tornado, futures, …)– ZeroMQ (new)

Automated build/deployment

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faбrik – active/active cluster

Service Buddy

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Region Wherever

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Got your back!

Got yours too!

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Gather / Analyze

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