11.01.13 Engineering Progress Report for Firefox Accounts and Sync.next

[Lloyd Hilaiel]

Ok.  Read the full thread.

Completely supportive of a decision to start with MySQL.  Rock on.

I challenge here only because this is news to me, and this is my fault for being on airplanes and in meetings more than is healthy for the last week.

A single-region short term milestone sounds fine.  I would urge you to schedule MySQL based multi-region soon after.  API access latency alone is a good reason to have servers on a couple continents.

Also, given this, it seems like decoupling of API server and Content Server [1] is smart.  Especially if jelly serving is stateless (client side secure cookies), we can mitigate API latency with a low complexity multi-region deployment of 

Also, recent versions of mysql supposedly have much better tools for HA multi-region deployments.  I’d urge you to talk with jared and gene to from the start use a stable, but modern version.

Sorry for all the backseat driving here, but these topics are close to my heart.

<3,
lloyd

1: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Identity/Firefox-Accounts#Architecture

On Nov 6, 2013, at 1:17 AM, Ryan Kelly <rfkelly at mozilla.com> wrote:

> On 6/11/2013 9:58 AM, Chris Karlof wrote:
>> On Nov 5, 2013, at 3:51 AM, Lloyd Hilaiel <lhilaiel at mozilla.com
>>> 
>>> Is C* off the table? Where can I learn about our learnings?
>> 
>> http://howfuckedismydatabase.com/nosql/
> 
> To be fair: http://howfuckedismydatabase.com/mysql/
> 
>> 2) Our team can support MySQL in their sleep, but I can't say that for C*
>> 3) The node driver for C* is immature.
> 
> That pretty much sums it up.  We're aggressively slashing risks and
> unknowns all around this project.
> 
>> As temporary or permanent as anything else. We have no timeline or
>> criteria to replace it. Danny and Ryan wrote the data store abstraction
>> layer in the Auth Server to not rule out C*, but that's just because
>> they're too wimpy to burn bridges. :)
> 
> :-P
> 
> FWIW I'm still bullish on Cassandra as a great fit for this problem.
> But I'm even more bullish on getting something ready to ship sooner
> rather than later.
> 
>>>  Finally, what is the sanest multi-region strategy available to us
>>> leveraging our mysql learnings from persona?
>> 
>> 2) Multi-master mode, slaving each other. (I don't know anyone with
>> experience with this in production. If you do, speak up.)
> 
> I've previously spoken against this on complexity grounds, but thinking
> about the shape of our data model, ISTM it could actually work OK.  It
> would turn out like some Rube Goldberg approximation of a Cassandra
> cluster with consistency-level=1.
> 
> Anyway.  A setup equivalent to current persona.org, with a single write
> master and slaves in other regions, should work fine for us for a long time.
> 
> 
>  Ryan
> 
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