My presentation on need for resiliency and how to achieve using Netflix Hystrix. This was received well across the team and uploading for the sake of others
2. Agenda
❏ What is Resiliency?
❏ Why we need Resiliency?
❏ What is Hystrix
❏ Not a silver bullet
❏ How to use
❏ What you get and don’t
❏ What’s next
3. What is Resiliency?
Resiliency is the ability to provide and maintain an acceptable level of service in the face of
faults and challenges to normal operation.” Threats and challenges for services can range
from simple misconfiguration over large scale natural disasters to targeted attacks.
5. What is Hystrix?
Hystrix is a latency and fault tolerance
library designed to isolate points of access
to remote systems, services and 3rd party
libraries, stop cascading failure and enable
resilience in complex distributed systems
where failure is inevitable.
6. Not a silver bullet
More like a Gauge &
Circuit breaker,
Rather than a
pipeline,
Certainly NOT the
Thor’s Hammer
7. public class CommandHelloWorld extends HystrixCommand<String> {
private final String name;
public CommandHelloWorld(String name) {
super(HystrixCommandGroupKey.Factory.asKey("ExampleGroup"));
this.name = name;
}
@Override
protected String run() {
// a real example would do work like a network call here
return "Hello " + name + "!";
}
}
CommandHelloWorld.execute();
How to use
9. How to use - Configurations
Circuit Breaker
➔ circuitBreaker.enabled
➔ circuitBreaker.requestVolumeThreshold
➔ circuitBreaker.sleepWindowInMilliseconds
➔ circuitBreaker.errorThresholdPercentage
➔ circuitBreaker.forceOpen
➔ circuitBreaker.forceClosed
Metrics
➔ metrics.rollingStats.timeInMilliseconds
➔ metrics.rollingStats.numBuckets
➔ metrics.rollingPercentile.enabled
➔ metrics.rollingPercentile.timeInMillisecond
s
➔ metrics.rollingPercentile.numBuckets
➔ metrics.rollingPercentile.bucketSize
execution.isolation.thread.timeoutInMilliseconds
10. What you get and don’t
➔ Real-time Dashboard
➔ Circuit Breaker
➔ Auto Mark Up / Mark Down
➔ Highly Configurable
➔ Reduced Latencies
➔ Faster responses
➔ 100% availability
➔ Magic!!!
11. What’s Next
➔ Aero Hystrix
➔ Use it for your dependencies
➔ Use the dashboard
➔ Checkout Turbine