JRuby in 2017 and beyond

Challenges,

Bugs, Hopes and Dreams

who am i

IVO anjo

Ruby

CONCURRENCY

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JRuby

Blog about Ruby && JRuby stuff https://ivoanjo.me
@knux

SO... JRUBY?

ruby on top of the java vm

SO... JRUBY?

WHy #1: PERFORMANCE

JIT COMPILER

STATE-of-THE-ART GC

SO... JRUBY?

WHy #2: PRODUCTION-READY

Text

SO... JRUBY?

WHy #3: MASSIVELY PARALLEL

UNLEASH THE THREADS

...AND THE ASYNC WORK

SO... JRUBY?

WHy #4: TROUBLESHOOTING

USE AWESOME JAVA TOOLING

• PROFILERS
• MONITORING
• DEBUGGERS

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IN PRODUCTION!

SO... JRUBY?

WHy #5: EASY TO DEPLOY

RUBY TOOLING OR JAVA TOOLING

SO... JRUBY?

WHy #5½: EASY TO DEPLOY

DEPLOY AS RUBY SOURCES

OR SINGLE-FILE DEPLOY

SO... JRUBY?

WHy #6: ACCESS TO BOTH ECOSYSTEMS

USE RUBY/JAVA/SCALA/KOTLIN/CLOJURE/... LIBRARIES

SO... JRUBY?

WHy #6½: ACCESS TO BOTH ECOSYSTEMS

KAFKA/CASSANDRA/... DRIVERS
MAP-REDUCE
...

HOW hard is it to start using?

$ rvm install jruby-9.1.13.0
$ rvm USE jruby-9.1.13.0
$ GEM INSTALL BUNDLER
$ BUNDLE INSTALL

SPENT A FEW MINUTES PORTING TALKDESK's RAILS MONOLITH

1635 examples, 19 failures, 41 pending

SPENT A FEW MINUTES PORTING TALKDESK's RAILS MONOLITH

AUTHENTICATE, PLACE & LIST CALLS, ACCESS SETTINGS, ETC.

going cold-turkey is a big step

i still recommend you carefully validate your app :)

thread carefully?

MY EXPERIENCE
WITH
JRUBY

contacts importer

Contacts
API

Contacts
Importer

Salesforce

Zendesk

Google

NSA

v0: unleash the threads

???

load up visualvm

googling around

oops, we were using the gem wrong

👍 fixed

v1: CPU-LIMITED? WAT?

THIS DOESN'T SEEM RIGHT...

👍 fix merged upstream!

v2: memory leaks :(

load up visualvm

follow the breadcrumbs

👍 fixED

👍 fixED

v2½: memory leaks :(

3 DAYS LATER! :)

contacts importer

huge productivity boost

wizard-level debugging MADE easy

hit double our performance target on a single instance



JRuby
101

in development

export JRUBY_OPTS=--dev
bundle install --binstubs

in development

gem 'pry-byebug',
  platforms: :ruby
gem 'pry-debugger-jruby',
  platforms: :jruby
export JRUBY_OPTS="--dev --debug"

in development

gem 'multi_json'
gem 'oj', platforms: :ruby
gem 'jrjackson', platforms: :jruby

if RUBY_PLATFORM == 'java'
  require 'jrjackson'
  MultiJson.use :jr_jackson
else
  require 'oj'
  MultiJson.use :oj
end

in development

jruby-lint

./Gemfile:24: [gems, warning] Found gem 'oj' which is reported to have some issues:
Try gson, json or json_pure instead.
Try any one of the following JRuby-based servers: Trinidad, Mizuno, Kirk or Puma (though make sure to use the JRuby-native version of the gem).
./Gemfile:43: [gems, warning] Found gem 'bson_ext' which is reported to have some issues:
bson_ext isn't used with JRuby. Instead, some native Java extensions are bundled with the bson gem.
./app/controllers/api/user_controller.rb:25: [nonatomic, warning] Non-local operator assignment is not guaranteed to be atomic

in development

concurrent-ruby
is your friend

in development

visualvm

in development

https://ivoanjo.me/blog/2017/08/12/ninjas-guide-to-visualvm/

google: "ninjas guide visualvm"

(including JRuby goodies!!!)

in development

netbeans profiling

in development

jmap/jstack

$ jmap -histo 17118 | grep rubyobj
  17:          9000         288000  rubyobj.Example.A
 337:            98           3136  rubyobj.Gem.Requirement
 435:            52           1664  rubyobj.Gem.Dependency
 470:            42           1344  rubyobj.OtherStuff.B
 477:            41           1312  rubyobj.Gem.Version
 762:            13            416  rubyobj.Gem.Specification
1103:             6            192  rubyobj.Gem.Platform
4060:             1             32  rubyobj.Gem.PathSupport
4061:             1             32  rubyobj.Gem.StubSpecification
4062:             1             32  rubyobj.Gem.StubSpecification.StubLine
4063:             1             32  rubyobj.Monitor
export JRUBY_OPTS="-Xreify.classes=true"

in development

yourkit & jprofiler

in production

export JRUBY_OPTS=\
"-Xcompile.invokedynamic=true -Xmanagement.enabled=true"

in production

MAY NEED some tuning for smaller machines :/

(e.g. Heroku 1x or 2x)

in production

THANKS!

TWITTERS: @KNUX

BLOG: ivoanjo.me

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