Building LinkedIn's Next Generation Architecture with OSGi
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This document discusses LinkedIn's adoption of OSGi to address challenges with their growing architecture. Some key challenges included a monolithic codebase, slow feature development, and difficulties upgrading services. OSGi was seen as a solution to allow: [1] dynamic deployment of services, [2] shared libraries across containers to improve efficiency, and [3] transparent service location across containers. However, the document also notes problems with OSGi including immature tooling, difficulty managing versions, and limitations of its container-centric design. Overall LinkedIn is moving to adopt OSGi but also working to address problems and "hide" complexity from application developers.
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■ Can OSGi even resolve with everything
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Building LinkedIn's Next Generation Architecture with OSGi
- 1. OSGi Building LinkedIn's Next Generation Architecture with OSGI Yan Pujante Distinguished Software Engineer Member of the Founding Team @ LinkedIn ypujante@linkedin.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/yan
- 2. Background ■ LinkedIn created in 03/2003 • close to 30M members • profitable with 5 revenue lines • HQ in Mountain View (400 employees) ■ Technologies • 2 datacenters (~ 600 machines) • SOA, java, tomcat, spring framework, http, Oracle, MySQL, servlets, jsp, graph, OSGi... • dev on MacOS X, prod on Solaris
- 3. Challenges ■ Growing engineering team on a monolithic code base (still modular) ■ Growing product team wanting more and more feature, faster ■ Growing operations team deploying more and more servers
- 4. Challenges (SOA in dev) Front-End Back-End X 1 3 webapp Z 2 Y webapp 4 M N webapp jetty (1) webapp P N R webapp webapp webapp tomcat jetty (2) ■ Front-end: many BL services in one webapp (in tomcat) ■ Back-end: many wars in 5 containers (jetty) with 1 service per war ■ Note that prod and dev are different
- 5. Container Challenge ■ 1 war with N services • does not scale for dev (conflicts, monolithic...) ■ N wars with 1 service • does not scale from a container point of view (no shared jars) ■ Can add containers but only 12Gb of RAM :(
- 6. Challenges (SOA in prod) ■ Upgrading back-end service to new version requires downtime • Hardware LB does not account for version ■ Upgrading front-end service to new version requires redeploy • N services in 1 war ■ Adding new back-end service painful • lots of manual configuration (LB, front- end...)
- 7. Solution: OSGi ■ Belief that OSGi is one of the tools that will help us address those challenges Why OSGi?
- 8. OSGi intro ■ OSGi means “Open Services Gateway initiative” ■ OSGi is a spec with several implementations • Equinox (eclipse!) • Knoplerfish • Felix (Apache)
- 9. OSGi intro (cont.) ■ OSGi has some very good properties • Smart class loading => multiple versions jars ok • Highly dynamic => deploy / undeploy built in • Services registry • Highly extensible / configurable ■ OSGi bundle = Jar File with OSGi manifests
- 10. OSGi bundle Specification-Title: Colorado Software Summit 2008 Hello Wolrd Client Bundle-Activator: com.linkedin.colorado.helloworld.client.HelloWorldClientActivator Import-Package: com.linkedin.colorado.helloworld.api;version=quot;[1.0.0,1.0.1)quot;, com.linkedin.colorado.helloworld.client;version=quot;[1.0.0,1.0.1)quot;, org.osgi.framework;version=quot;[1.4.0,1.4.1)quot; Export-Package: com.linkedin.colorado.helloworld.client;version=quot;1.0.0quot; Bundle-Version: 1.0.0 Bundle-Name: colorado-helloworld-client Bundle-ManifestVersion: 2 Bundle-SymbolicName: colorado-helloworld-client Bnd-LastModified: 1224557973403 Generated-On: 20081020 Tool: Bnd-<unknown version> Implementation-Version: DevBuild
- 11. BundleActivator ■ In a war: ServletContextListener public interface ServletContextListener extends EventListener { void contextInitialized(ServletContextEvent event); void contextDestroyed(ServletContextEvent event); } web.xml <listener> <listener-class>com.colorado.MyListener</listener-class> </listener> ■ In a Bundle: BundleActivator public interface BundleActivator { void start(BundleContext bundleContext) throws Exception; void stop(BundleContext bundleContext) throws Exception; } MANIFEST.MF Bundle-Activator: com.colorado.MyActivator
- 12. BundleContext ■ The bundle context is the entry point: • registerService / getServiceReference => to register / get services from registry • addBundleListener / addServiceListener => to listens / extends the framework • even installBundle ! • ... and more
- 13. Demo ■ Equinox demo... stay tuned...
- 14. Web Container JARs WAR ■ Services exported Services with Spring/RPC ■ Services in same war can see each other SpringRPC ■ Share the jars WEB Container VM HTTP
- 15. Web Container JARs JARs Services Services ■ Cannot share jars SpringRPC SpringRPC ■ Cannot talk directly WEB Container VM HTTP
- 16. OSGi container Bundles ■ Bundles (jars) shared Service Registry ■ Services shared ■ Dynamic replacement of bundles OSGi Container VM • OSGi solves the container challenge
- 17. Distributed OSGi ■ OSGi is currently container centric ■ Next version (4.2) will introduce distributed OSGi • What do we do in the meantime ?
- 18. LinkedIn distributed OSGi Bundles Service Service Registry Registry C1 VM ■ Service ‘red’ talks to service ‘green’ (local) • What happens if we move ‘green’ to a different container ?
- 19. LinkedIn distributed OSGi Bundles Service Registry Bundles C2 Service Registry VM Bundles C1 VM Service Registry C3 VM
- 20. LinkedIn distributed OSGi Bundles Service Registry Bundles 2 C2 Service Registry VM 2 Bundles C1 VM Service Registry C3 VM
- 21. LinkedIn distributed OSGi Bundles Service Registry Bundles 2 C2 Service Registry VM 2 3 Bundles C1 VM Service Registry 3 C3 VM
- 22. LinkedIn distributed OSGi Bundles Service Registry Bundles 2 C2 Service Registry VM 2 3 Bundles C1 VM Service Registry 3 C3 VM
- 23. LinkedIn distributed OSGi ■ no more N-1 / 1-N problem • libraries and services can be shared in 1 container (mem. footprint smaller) • services shared across containers ■ transparent location to clients • no more configurations to change when adding/removing/moving services ■ software load balancer • much more flexible (handle version)
- 24. LB and version Bundles Bundles Service Registry Service Registry 2 2 C2 VM 3 Bundles C1 VM Service Registry 3 C3 VM
- 25. Everything is perfect... ■ ...Not really • OSGi has some problems
- 26. OSGi problems ■ OSGi is great, but tooling is not quite there yet ■ Not every lib is a bundle ■ OSGi was designed for embedded devices => using it for server side is recent (but very active)
- 27. OSGi problems ■ OSGi is quite low level => but there is some work to ‘hide’ the complexity • spring DM (spring dynamic module) • multiple vendors containers ■ Spring DM Server, Glassfish, Infiniflow ■ OSGi is container centric, but next version will add distributed OSGi (although no support for LB)
- 28. OSGi problems (cont.) ■ version management can be nightmarish • Import-Package: com.linkedin.util;version=1.0.0 ■ version=1.0.0 means [1.0.0, ∞) ■ should use at least: version=[1.0.0,2.0.0) ■ runtime is dynamic and can result in untested code being executed!
- 29. Runtime version problem ■ client1 and client2 uses Service 3.0.0 ■ Dependencies are ‘loose’: [3.0.0, 4.0.0)
- 30. Runtime version problem ■ We upgrade client1 and service ■ client2 starts using green bundles ■ => Most likely untested
- 31. Runtime version solutions ? ■ A solution is to lock version: • [1.0.0,1.0.0] => no slack • [1.0.0,1.0.1) => tiny bit of slack for emergency mode ■ Does it really work ? spring 2.5.5 imports hibernate version [3.1,∞) ■ Can OSGi even resolve with everything locked down ?
- 32. Runtime version problem ■ With maximal lock-down, client2 cannot use the new service
- 33. Runtime version solutions ? ■ Services cannot talk to each other directly => need serialization for backward compatible services (dynamic proxy)
- 34. Despite problems... ■ ...OSGi and community moving in the right direction
- 35. Where are we ? ■ Bundle repository (big amount of work... in progress) ■ Use ivy/bnd for generating bundles ■ Evaluating container • Infiniflow (from Paremus) most likely the one • LinkedIn spring / SCA to deploy composites ■ Work on the load balancer/distribution (in progress) ■ Work on tooling / build integration (Sigil from Paremus) ■ Much much more to do...
- 36. Conclusion ■ Using OSGi... definitely! ■ But we do not want application developers to have to deal with it.
- 37. More information ■ Check my posts on the LinkedIn blog (OSGi series). More to come...