Ben Tyler - (...) Phoenix on Riak_Core (ElixirconfEU 2016)

Описание: Experimenting with Superpowered Web Services: Phoenix on Riak_Core

Slides and more info: http://www.elixirconf.eu/elixirconf20...

Through Erlang, Elixir developers have access to some amazing tools for building resilient distributed systems. riak_core is one such tool: it provides the framework behind Riak’s high availability KV store. In this talk, I’d like to explore some unconventional architecture by using riak_core and Phoenix to build fault-tolerant stateful web applications. What happens when the app servers are also the database nodes? Can we avoid some of the traditional pitfalls of stateful servers? Is this a remotely good idea? Let’s take a look!

Talk objectives

1) Stateless/stateful setups for web applications — what do these words mean?

2) CAP in brief, consistent hash rings for distributing work: what are the tradeoffs?

3) riak_core - what does it do? Paraphrasing Mariano Guerra’s excellent work.

4) Build a Phoenix application that cohabitates on a riak_core hash ring. What superpowers do we gain from this? What do we have to watch out for? Can we do cool tricks with load balancing or channels? In-memory databases for super-speedy responses?

5) Loosely comparable systems in production/prior art - Microsoft Orleans, Facebook Scuba, others

Target audience

Intermediate+ Elixir programmers, web developers, students of distributed systems.


Ben works on service discovery, maps of the infrastructure, and human-system reliability.


Github: kanatohodets