Thanks to all of you who attended the meeting -- I had a great time. A special thanks goes to Jon Steelman and Consilium1 for hosting the group!
The gist of the presentation was:
1) Multi-core processors allow massive concurrency
2) Thread-based concurrency won’t scale to massive
3) Event-based concurrency will scale to massive
4) Enterprise software must scale to pass on cost savings
5) Enterprise resource pools use threaded concurrency and won’t scale
6) Non-blocking resource pools use Scala Actors
7) Non-blocking resource pools can handle massive bursts
8) Non-blocking resource pools give back pressure signals and can be tuned
I presented an abstraction for non-blocking resource pools in Scala and demonstrated a resource pool of checksum accumulators. The test program simulated bursts of 3,000, 10,000 and 5,000 requests contending for a pool of just 10 resources. The test program then ran a rolling load of 500 requests every 2 seconds.
The server process handled the load well. Throughput reached a maximum but the system continued to service the bursts at the expense of latency.
Some of the members discussed similar approaches where they used queuing middleware. In general, I think it’s impressive that we can accomplish this safely (message-based concurrency) within the language itself without using other middleware.
My presentation slides have been posted at:
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