YOU WILL REGRET THIS!

My Other Mood is 'Even More Angry'

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I'M GONNA TELL YOU A STORY

In which I tell you how to behave
- how dare I?
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SOCKET.IO-ERLANG

Developed Used

by Yurii Rashkovskii, Omar Yasin, Fred Hebert (me)

as a base demo app for this presentation to write neat front-ends for conversational websites

Allows

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BIZARRO SOCKET.IO-ERLANG

'Bad'

socket.io-erlang used for the presentation

Freely

substitutes dependencies and actual code for whatever purpose I have

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APP STRUCTURE

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APP STRUCTURE
Bunch of supervisors

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APP STRUCTURE
Bunch of supervisors

web server

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APP STRUCTURE
Bunch of supervisors transport handlers web server

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APP STRUCTURE
Client code attaches here web server Bunch of supervisors transport handlers

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WE USE A WEB SERVER

We

need a web server (the slide's title says just that (and also the previous slide)) annoying! parameters and a connection around is

Oh, Carrying

Let's

use parametrised modules!

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PARAMETRISED MODULES
-module(test_module, [Param1]). some_method() -> Param1. Equivalent to: -module(test_non_pmod). some_method(Param1) -> Param1.

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PARAMETRISED MODULES
1> X = test_module:new(horror), X:some_method(). horror 2> test_non_pmod:some_method(sane). sane

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PARAMETRISED MODULES
They We

are great!

can use them as if they were objects! let us carry everything as one large parameter! do this!

They

Let's

Friday, June 10, 2011

PARAMETRISED MODULES
They We

are great!

can use them as if they were objects! let us carry everything as one large parameter! do this!

They

Let's

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What?

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I'LL TELL YOU WHAT

3> dbg:tp({X, some_method, 0}, [...]). ** exception error: no case clause matching {test_module,horror} 4> dbg:tp({test_module, some_method, 0}, [...]). * never matches anything * 5> dbg:tp({test_module, some_method, 1}, [...]). * will actually match stuff *

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What is this I don't even...

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I'LL TELL YOU WHAT

The parameters are global and they ghost values, become implicit function arguments. Errors out of nowhere. They're based on a old fun hack ({Mod, Fun}:(Args)) They mess up the concept of arity They mess up tracing (previous slide!) They were added because some library accepts callback modules and nothing else but might still need state around. No other reason.

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I'll use them anyway

(in my server)

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YOU PROBABLY SHOULDN'T

But you might not have a choice, so let's keep going
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WHAT ELSE DO WE HAVE?

A

supervision tree, of course!

Some

of the supervisors are tricky and must interact with servers and dynamic children and ... starts who? By which API?

Who We

could probably just forget about supervisors, link stuff together and make it simpler do this!

Let's
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IN THIS VERY SLIDE I PRETEND I MAKE THE CHANGES

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APP STRUCTURE

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APP STRUCTURE
transport handlers were moved and no longer need a supervisor. They only use links. The code is more straightforward!

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APP STRUCTURE
transport handlers were moved and no longer need a supervisor. They only use links. The code is more straightforward!

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What?
... my code is so much easier to read now!

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I'LL TELL YOU WHAT

You

need to add ad-hoc start/restart policies and make sure orderly shutdowns work ne with just links. Care to add tests? can no longer benet from systool's application upgrades and downgrades as they depend on supervisors will need to take your app down!

You

You

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It's okay, I'll do rolling upgrades through all nodes

this should avoid downtime

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NOT WITH LIVE SESSIONS!

Nobody likes to be disconnected during a conversation!
Would you disconnect this guy?
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Stolen from Yurii's talk earlier today

NOT WITH LIVE SESSIONS!

Nobody likes to be disconnected!
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Stolen from Yurii's talk earlier today

NOT WITH LIVE SESSIONS!

Nobody likes to be disconnected!
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You're killing me. I'll leave the change in. Code is meant to be read rst!

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OK, AS LONG AS YOU LISTEN TO THE NEXT POINT

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SURE, I'M HAPPY WITH MY APP

It's

all done in OTP Easier to read parametrized modules, hell yes!

Now Uses It's

time to start it! do this!

Let's

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THIS IS GONNA BE FUN

main(_) -> appmon:start(), sasl:start(normal, []), socketio:start(normal,[]), {ok, Pid} = socketio_listener:start([ {http_port, 7878}, {default_http_handler,?MODULE}]), EventMgr = socketio_listener:event_manager(Pid), ok = gen_event:add_handler(EventMgr, ?MODULE,[]), receive _ -> ok end.

And it works!
(believe me)
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THIS IS GONNA BE FUN

main(_) -> appmon:start(), sasl:start(normal, []), socketio:start(normal,[]), {ok, Pid} = socketio_listener:start([ {http_port, 7878}, {default_http_handler,?MODULE}]), EventMgr = socketio_listener:event_manager(Pid), ok = gen_event:add_handler(EventMgr, ?MODULE,[]), receive _ -> ok end.

And it works!
(believe me)
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What is it this time?

YOU, AGAIN!? You are worse than clippy

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I'LL TELL YOU WHAT

The VM Starting No No No

starts all applications under the Application Controller one outside of it means it is not supervised by it

app failure strategy (permanent, transient, temporary) access to 'env' variables

respect of start phases or dependencies

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AND IT GETS WORSE

With

bad default values (or overly defensive code) for env variables, bad things happen...

In

(before a patch to change that, because I forgot to listen to this hint)

this case, innitely many web sockets opened for each client

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DO THIS INSTEAD
main(_) -> appmon:start(), application:start(sasl), application:start(misultin), application:start(socketio), {ok, Pid} = socketio_listener:start([ {http_port, 7878}, {default_http_handler,?MODULE}]), EventMgr = socketio_listener:event_manager(Pid), ok = gen_event:add_handler(EventMgr, ?MODULE,[]), receive _ -> ok end.

And it works better!

(believe me)
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Oh...

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RIGHT
Your OTP code is not worth much without that
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One more thing...

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DON'T LISTEN TO ME
If your product might not ship because of this. Making it work is #1. Making it pretty is not.
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HAPPY HACKING
Hopefully you won't regret this
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