Breaking the Monolith - v3

Breaking the Monolith

WHOAMI

Cristobal ViedmaFounder & CEO @Monkimun

Former life: Head of Platform @Viki ($200M exit) Founder & CEO @Bluewalks

80% of the world can only read <6% of the Internet

W3techs 2015: http://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/content_language/allUnesco 2012: http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0018/001870/187016e.pdf

WHATISVIKI?

GLOBALTV

NOTADUMBTV

TITLEHERECROSSCULTURAL COMMUNICATION

CHALLENGES

WEBviki.com 56.com pptv.com youtube.com yahoo.com msn.com...

MOBILEAndroid iOS Blackberry Windows Phone Samsung Bada Kindle Fire...

SMARTTVs

Google TV, Samsung SmartTV, Roku...

HIGHLYDISTRIBUTED

Data: viki.com Oct'12

Top 5 Cities: Singapore,Santiago, LaVictoria, Jakarta, New York

EXPLOSIVEGROWTH

~22M users winter’12 (2500% growth). ~35M summer’13

DEMANDINGUSERSviewers start leaving if video doesn't play in 2 secs ...and every sec of additional delay ~6% more jumping ship!

Data: Video Stream Quality Impacts Viewer Behavior: Inferring Causality Using Quasi-Experimental Designs. S. Shunmuga Krishnan, Ramesh K. Sitaraman, 2012

CHALLENGES

Large Ecosystem Highly DistributedExplosive GrowthDemanding Users

TITLEHERE

BREAKTHEMONOLITH

TITLEHERE

PLATFORMFOCUS

Scalability Availability

Performance

UNDERSTANDINGFacts:Read heavy (writes can wait) Everything fits in memory

Goal: 25ms uncached (10-100x better)

[SCALA|AVAILA]BILITY

Service Oriented Architecture Each vertical is a source of truth

Oceanus (Videos)

Activities (Behaviour)

Gaia (Users)

Aphrodite (Community)

…

ONEGATE

Hyperion (platform cluster)

Everything routed through api.viki.io

Oceanus (Videos)

Activities (Behaviour)

Gaia (Users)

Aphrodite (Community)

…

DISTRIBUTION

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PUB/SUBSYSTEMHyperion (platform cluster)

Oceanus (Videos)

Activities (Behaviour)

Gaia (Users)

Aphrodite (Community)

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Message / Events Queue

… Message / Events Queue

Oceanus (Videos)

Activities (Behaviour)

Gaia (Users)

Aphrodite (Community)

Analytics

Hyperion(cluster)

viki.com

LogsSegmenting Tool

Subtitling tool

Baboon (CMS)

Hyperion(cluster)

Hyperion(cluster)

Devices (android, ios, etc)

Partners (Samsung, Youtube,

etc)

3rd Party Dev. (API)

Plat

form

Con

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Clie

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Know

ledge

EVENTDRIVENARCHITECTURE

CHALLENGES/FOCUS

Scalability Availability

Performance

Large Ecosystem Highly DistributedExplosive GrowthDemanding Users

PERFORMANCE

Generation Time Network time Render time

Hyperion Client

PERFORMANCE

Hyperion(cluster)

Nginx

APIProxy (GoLang)

Hyperion (Node.js)

Redis Redis Redis

GENERATIONOriginal (without latency) ~250ms

Everything in memory ~15-100ms

Sorting / VFind ~15ms

Paging ~9ms

Serializing ~5ms

UNCACHED

HORRORFUNFACTS

Alias - Redis 32bits VFIND - Redis forkJSON Concat in C

[email protected] https://angel.co/monkimun

Nothing new… Having fun & learning!

https://github.com/karlseguin/scaling-viki

80% of the world can only read <6% of the Internet

W3techs 2015: http://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/content_language/allUnesco 2012: http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0018/001870/187016e.pdf

Research shows 2-6 years is the best age to learn a language

Science 2005: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/310/5749/815

language learning is extremely bOOOring

and so is “gamifying” it…

A common language will accelerate growth and make the

world more united and equal

VISION

ADVISORS

Kent Liu Ex-GM Asia for EA Mobile Ex-Director JAMDAT mobile (IPO + $680M exit)

500 Startups Leading global venture capital seed fund

Razmig Hovaghimian Co-founder / CEO Viki Sr Executive Officer Rakuten Board Observer Rakuten

Gwynne Shotwell SpaceX President & COO

[email protected] https://angel.co/monkimun

[email protected]+1 415 528 99 71 +34 617 606 187

Psst, We are hiring!