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Support Aphlict clustering

Description

Support Aphlict clustering

Summary:
Ref T6915. This allows multiple notification servers to talk to each other:

  • Every server has a list of every other server, including itself.
  • Every server generates a unique fingerprint at startup, like "XjeHuPKPBKHUmXkB".
  • Every time a server gets a message, it marks it with its personal fingerprint, then sends it to every other server.
  • Servers do not retransmit messages that they've already seen (already marked with their fingerprint).
  • Servers learn other servers' fingerprints after they send them a message, and stop sending them messages they've already seen.

This is pretty crude, and the first message to a cluster will transmit N^2 times, but N is going to be like 3 or 4 in even the most extreme cases for a very long time.

The fingerprinting stops cycles, and stops servers from sending themselves copies of messages.

We don't need to do anything more sophisticated than this because it's fine if some notifications get lost when a server dies. Clients will reconnect after a short period of time and life will continue.

Test Plan:

  • Wrote two server configs.
  • Started two servers.
  • Told Phabricator about all four services.
  • Loaded Chrome and Safari.
  • Saw them connect to different servers.
  • Sent messages in one, got notifications in the other (magic!).
  • Saw the fingerprinting stuff work on the console, no infinite retransmission of messages, etc.

(This pretty much just worked when I ran it the first time so I probably missed something?)

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Reviewers: chad

Reviewed By: chad

Maniphest Tasks: T6915

Differential Revision: https://secure.phabricator.com/D15711

Details

Provenance
epriestleyAuthored on Apr 14 2016, 3:13 PM
epriestleyPushed on Apr 14 2016, 8:26 PM
Reviewer
chad
Differential Revision
D15711: Support Aphlict clustering
Parents
rP5a0b7398cabd: Give bin/storage some replica-aware options
Branches
Unknown
Tags
Unknown
Tasks
T6915: Allow the Aphlict server to scale across multiple hosts
Build Status
Buildable 11735
Build 14701: Run Core Tests