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<li>Distribution</li>
<li>Fault Tolerance</li>
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<p>ab -c 50 -n 10000 localhost</p>
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<li>Twisted: 1.12x</li>
<li>mochiweb: 2.5x</li>
<li>nginx: 3.9x</li>
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<h1>Erlang at Mochi Media</h1>
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<li>High-performance HTTP servers</li>
<li>Ad targeting</li>
<li>Real-time analytics</li>
<li>Social gaming</li>
<li>Lots of internal use</li>
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<li>Juniper Routers</li>
<li>Cisco Switches</li>
<li>OpenBSD load balancer</li>
<li>Nginx HTTP load balancer (Linux)</li>
<li>Erlang/OTP R12B-3 (Linux)</li>
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<li>Erlang/OTP R12B-3</li>
<li>mochiweb (http)</li>
<li>egeoip (geolocation)</li>
<li>eswf (SWF file format)</li>
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<li>Gather information about client</li>
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<li>Log impression data</li>
<li>Log click data, redirection</li>
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<li>Feeds targeting decisions for ad choice</li>
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<li>Weight the rest</li>
<li>Choose a random number; 0 <= N < sum(Weights)</li>
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<li>Stream to hourly disk log</li>
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<li>Redirect (HTTP 302) to destination URL</li>
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<li>Long-term state in SharedObject</li>
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<li>RAM db counters from previous serves that day</li>
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<li>Campaign weights, budget adjustments, etc.</li>
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<div class="slide" id="lessons-learned-part-1">
<h1>Lessons Learned (part 1)</h1>
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<li>Network partitioning sucks</li>
<li>Network partitioning sucks</li>
<li>Network partitioning sucks</li>
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<div class="slide" id="lessons-learned-part-2">
<h1>Lessons Learned (part 2)</h1>
<ul class="simple">
<li>pg2 is broken</li>
<li>mnesia is too slow (for us)</li>
<li>Inter-node distribution protocol can be flaky</li>
<li>Erlang open source not always robust</li>
<li>Lists are not a good data type for strings</li>
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<div class="slide" id="favorite-erlang-features">
<h1>Favorite Erlang Features</h1>
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<li>Module reloading</li>
<li>Pattern matching</li>
<li>Binaries</li>
<li>Lightweight processes</li>
<li>Concise but not cryptic</li>
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<h1>More Erlang at Mochi Media</h1>
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<li>MochiBot</li>
<li>MochiCrypt</li>
<li>MochiScore</li>
<li>IRC bot</li>
<li>SVN deployment</li>
<li>Monitoring system</li>
<li>Node discovery</li>
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