Adaptive Concurrency Control for Mixed Analytical Workloads

Thursday, March 23, 2023 - 11:55 am12:40 pm

Dan Kleiman, Klaviyo

Abstract: 

Last year we launched a Query Service to provide real-time analytics for a mix of workloads that includes public APIs, dashboards in our app, and report generation.

Consolidating these use cases to a single service was a huge infrastructure cost and complexity win, but we soon started experiencing intermittent waves of timeouts, impacting all our callers at once.

We thought we had provisioned the service with enough capacity, so why were we hitting congestion?

Inspired by Jon Moore's 2017 Strangeloop talk "Stop Rate Limiting! Capacity Management Done Right", Netflix's blog post Performance Under Load, and their Concurrency Limits library, this talk will share how we iteratively applied the principles of concurrency control to improve the user experience of our Query Service.

Dan Kleiman, Klaviyo

Dan is a software engineer at Klaviyo—a marketing tech company that powers email, sms, and ecommerce integrations—where he works on query services for Klaviyo's data platform.

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BibTeX
@conference {286258,
author = {Dan Kleiman},
title = {Adaptive Concurrency Control for Mixed Analytical Workloads},
year = {2023},
address = {Santa Clara, CA},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = mar
}

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