RedisConf18 - Redis on Flash
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The document discusses Etermax's use of Redis as their primary database. They initially used MySQL but faced latency issues as user base and traffic grew. They migrated to Redis, starting with a single instance and eventually using Redis Enterprise Cloud with sharding. Testing showed Redis on Flash provided acceptable latency while significantly reducing infrastructure costs. Migrating production to Redis on Flash reduced costs by over 50% without code changes. Redis on Flash works well if instant data recovery is not required.
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RedisConf18 - Redis on Flash
- 1. Redis on Flash A Game-Changing Database Platform for Etermax
- 2. Who we are Daniel D’Abate - Product Owner of the Platform team - daniel.dabate@etermax.com Esteban Masoero - Technical Owner of the Platform team - esteban.masoero@etermax.com
- 3. Etermax We’re the fastest growing company in Latin America specialized in the development of mobile games Founded in Argentina in 2009 as a small startup, we have now expanded to Uruguay and Germany with more than 250 employees worldwide and in constant growth
- 4. The team Etermax is made up of interdisciplinary teams that aspire to create and maintain top quality products, keeping in mind aesthetics, content and usability
- 5. Our first game Aworded Crack is a social words game released in 2011 Most downloaded mobile app in Spain by 2012 More than 20 million users
- 6. The real challenger Trivia Crack is a social trivia game released in 2013 Most downloaded mobile game in Latin America and US by 2014 More than 350M users 1M daily downloads that appeared to be nonstop 25M daily active users peak
- 7. Product is always first
- 8. Challenges about our games ● Social => connections between millions of users => store lots of data manipulated by complex algorithms ● Constant user interaction => keep feedback as fast as possible => low latency ● Viral => sudden growth => scalability and fast reaction ● Worldwide => users connected 24/7 => reliability
- 9. [DAU Graphic] A graphical example:
- 10. Context constraints ● Small team (10 devs) ● Junior team ● Small budget (independent company) ● Little time to respond to: ○ User needs (viral growth) ○ Technical issues We had to focus our efforts Focus in developing the product, not in dealing with technology
- 11. Technology powering the product in our context ● Little to no automation ● AWS ● Monolithic backend ● Redis as a primary database
- 12. Our path to using Redis as a Primary Database
- 13. Evolving our Primary DB: First iteration Aworded Crack We used MySQL initially - Easy - Most popular - Standard, a lot of support
- 14. Evolving our Primary DB: First iteration Aworded Crack - User base grew - Traffic grew - Latency issues arised - Tried different workarounds, but they didn’t work: - Vertical scaling (bigger instances) - Using MyISAM tables - Adding more Indexes - De-normalizing some data - Removing Hibernate Framework
- 15. Evolving our Primary DB: Second iteration Aworded Crack 1 (one) Redis instance on-premise - Dynamic migration, one functionality at a time - Daily Snapshots (RDB) - All data in RAM => 1/100 latency from DB - We needed less backend APIs because DB was incredibly faster - Huge benefits: speed and cost savings!
- 16. Evolving our Primary DB: Third iteration Aworded Crack - Users kept growing - RAM was not enough - New games were being developed - Solution: Sharding Redis - 16 Shards on-premise - RAM capacity x 16 - Sharding implemented on the application side
- 17. Trivia Crack: The Real Challenger
- 18. Evolving our Primary DB: Fourth iteration Trivia Crack - Users started to grow amazingly fast - Cluster maintenance was cumbersome - RAM was not enough! (again) - Solution: Redis Enterprise cluster (VPC Managed) powered by RedisLabs - RAM capacity x 128 - Sharding implemented on RedisLabs’ side - High availability - Automatic Backups - Dashboard Metrics
- 19. Evolving our Primary DB: Fourth iteration Trivia Crack - Redis performance Reached 2M ops/sec !
- 20. Stabilization - Worked fine the following years - As usual, games started to stabilize - New users started to decrease However, all data was still kept in RAM
- 21. Stabilization: New context ● Bigger team (~100 devs) ● Senior and Full-Stack team ● Bigger budget ● Predictable user behaviour We can take time to optimize
- 22. Stabilization: Our technology changed ● Lots of automation (CI/CD) ● AWS new usages (VPCs, RDS, Lambdas, etc) ● Microservices oriented backend ● Redis still as a primary database
- 23. Optimization: Redis on Flash Main idea: - Active data => Hot Keys => Values in RAM - Inactive data => Cold Keys => Values in Flash Advantages: - Fewer EC2 instances, with bigger instance-store volumes => Cheaper! - Almost same latency => We needed to test this!
- 24. Redis on Flash: The test Our biggest concern: Latency! - 70 ms avg for our API latency was fine - 2x or 3x avg was NOT an option
- 25. First test: isolated from games - Captured and sent real traffic to Redis on FLASH - Redis Latency under 1 ms, promising results Redis on Flash: The test
- 26. Redis on Flash: The test Second test: Aworded Crack: - Redirected production traffic to Redis on Flash temporarily - Fine tuning from RedisLabs and sharing VPC dramatically improved results Results: - Small API latency increase, but acceptable for user requirements
- 27. Redis on Flash: The test Third test: Trivia Crack: - Redirected production traffic to Redis on Flash temporarily Results: - Small API latency increase (~50%), acceptable for user requirements - 70 ms => 100 ms
- 28. Redis on Flash: The test Fourth test on Trivia Crack: - AWS patch for Meltdown and Spectre incidents pushed us to repeat the test Results: - Still good performance - Minimal impact on Redis Latency - Insignificant impact on API Latency
- 29. Redis on Flash: The migration Migrated to Redis on Flash Worked as expected! :)
- 30. Infrastructure for a 6TB DB reduced: - Cluster con AWS with RAM: - ~50 EC2 instances: 244 GB RAM, 32 vCPUs, 10 Gigabit - ~50 volumes: gp2 (EBS), 1 TB - Cluster con AWS with Flash: - ~20 EC2 instances: 244 GB RAM, 32 vCPUs, 10 Gigabit - ~20 volumes: NVMe SSD (instance store), 4 TB (size cost included in instance cost) Redis on Flash: Conclusions
- 31. Redis on Flash: Conclusions - Costs reduced by more than 50% - 0 lines of code where changed - All redis features worked just fine
- 32. Redis on Flash: Conclusions After the migration, we ran some intensive scripts ...
- 33. Redis as Primary DB: Conclusions - Posible if instant data recovery is not a must (in case of data loss) - RAM replaces Disk, and has its own limitations - Some kind of data compression might help - Enhanced Networking will save your life (in case of huge traffic) => FREE! - Some commands might not be possible: KEYS * - Allows you to scale without concerning about DB speed - Try not to abuse it! Avoid “Redis-Is-Too-Fast” oriented programming
- 34. Thank You