codeRaider
TL;DR
Better way and Efficient methods to build a massive data structure (like a snapshot), or this is job for another language?
In-deep
In a Redis server, we have segmented objects by parameters. The base object is institute, this have a base json object with parameters like address, phone number, code, id, etc. Then, this institute have nested keys with data (json object), like institute:<code>:teachers, institute:<code>:executive and others.
There is a builder that create this massive structure by many institutes with a list of institute codes, one by one, this generate a base structure and merge and add the nested objects.
A little example:
%{
"institute-a" => %{
address: "Street A 453",
id: 12,
status: "active",
online: true,
location: %{
country: "United State",
state: "CA",
city: "Los Angeles"
},
teachers: %{
"john-doe" => %{
age: 35,
asignatures: ["Art", "Music"],
id: 999
},
...
},
courses: %{
"A1" => {
students: %{
"carol-doe" => %{
age: 15,
grades: %{
"music" => "A",
"arts" => "B+"
},
....
}
}
}
}
},
....
}
The duration to build this structure was nice (5 secs), but more institutes was added to the Redis server, already we have 500 institutes.
I try many forms, but, when the data is so massive, the request time is like 15~20secs to show this request data or send as response in a channel event.
I know elixir is not friendly with this kind of process, this is temporary, but I need ideas to be more efficient and respecting the elixir way to code.
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hauleth
How often does that data change?
codeRaider
Concurrently in the day, in a time period like 9am to 3pm are the high peak of changes (creation, modify, delete, etc), monday to friday. The low concurrency is between 3pm to 9am of the next day and weekend.
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darnahsan
You can have a look at this it might be of some help or atleast give you idea over hwo to tackle your problem
https://github.com/discord/sorted_set_nif
codeRaider
In mid-term I proposed a refactor with a new project with a current elixir version (the project is in Elixir 1.6.5) to create a better scalable and updated system. Use Rustler to manage this kind of complex structures is a point in the proposal to the Leader. Yep, a goal for next year is learn Rust.
chulkilee
Did you find out what part is actually taking time mostly?
If building the data is 5 sec but the whole request takes 15-20.. it means something takes 10-15s
Things to check before going further (e.g. rustler)
codeRaider
The part that take mostl time is build N+1 structure. As I said, this
eachprocess, one by one, is where take so much time (the base data is append with more nested attribute in the process). I useEnum.mapto process N+1 code of institute. I was think to usereducein this case. The problem is when a Client connect to the channel, the API send this structure to show in a front page or get in an endpoint, 20 to 30 secs is a lot. If this continue, this could take more if we reach 1000 institutes.I will check if Redix library use IO List.
We have a Redis Cluster Server as an Azure services. The point of this data is be persistent, quick and easy to process.
We thought to create just one institute object by redis key (JSON object storaged). The process to build could be more simple, but by the multi-concurrent data transactions (changes) that we have, the fear of data conflict in the process (desynchronized), this could be a headache. This data is important (sensitive) for many process and other clients that get this.
chulkilee
500 is too small number to notice the slowness hm.
Check whether you have N+1 query problem. You may need to batch process but should not have N+1 query problem. Are you fetching institutes and all their associated data at once from database? Or do you need to iterate associated records per institute (e.g. they’re in redis…)?
It is still not clear where the thing goes wrong. Do you get it from redis? Or build it, put it to redis, and return to client? Without knowing what is the problem exactly, it’s hard to fix it.
chasers
I’m not sure it sounds like Flow may be something to look into for a short term solution. It should help spread the map process out across all your cores.
codeRaider
Yes, but we want to prepare the API to hold >1000 objects.
All this records are in Redis.
Get data from Redis, conform the N+1 institute objects with associated data (the nested attributes have N+1 objects and growth). All the time this is executed when is required (response on join event, channel event or an endpoint get request). The clients need sometimes specific data structure, with less data, without index keys, etc.
The front devs said this is so slow the data response (15 to 20 secs). They think this could take between 5~10secs avg even if we have 20k objects in the massive structure.
codeRaider
Oh! This is interesting. I’ll check if this is compatible with our current elixir version, I hope. Thnks!