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ElasticD for direct communication between frotends and backends

Objective

The goal is to have frontends communicate directly with backends by using IP addresses instead of DNS in cloud environments. This will remove the unnecessary components in-between the two and associated overhead.

Why ElasticD?

  • AWS is very dynamic in nature. A lot of their services start with ‘E’ for elastic.
  • IP addresses change all the time, allowing more flexibility.
  • The number of server performing a task may increase or decrease at any time.
  • So far, standard industry technologies don’t operate optimally in this dynamic environment.
  • Many cache DNS lookups for performance. This is great in a static environment but a burden in AWS.
  • A few technologies used at FINRA required significant additional effort and workarounds included:
  • Varnish
  • Apache
  • Nginx (special configuration required)
  • It was difficult to automatically configure frontends and know about the backends without using DNS.
  • This required additional components between the front ends and back ends.
  • More components meant more overhead in maintenance, testing, and development.
  • More components meant more failure points.

Solution

Create a light weight application that informs the frontends of the backends, allowing them to communicate directly with IP addresses.

Features

  • Pluggable
  • It's able to extend components to suit your needs.
  • Frontend agnostic
  • Additional implementations are available for different frontend technologies (Varnish, Nginx, etc).
  • Backend agnostic
  • ElasticD only needs a way to find the backend's IP address.
  • Cloud agnostic
  • At FINRA, we use AWS but the resource locator can be extended for other cloud offerings.

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