Python dramatiq 库
dramatiq
官方文档:https://dramatiq.io/
一个简单的分布式任务队列库
Dramatiq 主要遵循以下原则:
- 高可用性和高性能
- 简单并且易于理解的核心
- 约定大于配置
如果你曾经对使用 Celery 感到过心烦意乱,那么 Dramatiq 会成为你的好工具的。
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安装
If you want to use it with RabbitMQ:
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Or if you want to use it with Redis:
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快速入门
Actors
To turn this into a function that can be processed asynchronously using Dramatiq, all we have to do is decorate it with actor
:
使用 actor 装饰器修饰函数,来达成异步的目的
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使用 send 方法来异步地调用这个被修饰的函数,以开头的 count_words
为例
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Doing so immediately enqueues a message (via our local RabbitMQ server) that can be processed asynchronously but doesn’t actually run the function. In order to run it, we’ll have to boot up a Dramatiq worker.
这样做会立即向消息中间件 Broker 中插入一条可以被异步处理的消息,但是函数并没有立即被运行,我们需要启动一个 Dramatiq worker 来运行这个函数。
Because all messages have to be sent over the network, any arguments you send to an actor must be JSON-encodable.
Workers
Dramatiq 自带一个命令行工具,称为 dramatiq
。该工具能够启动多个并发的 worker 进程,从队列中获取消息并将其发送到 actor 函数以进行执行。
使用 dramatiq
命令行工具来生成解决 actors 的 workers
To spawn workers for our count_words.py
example, run the following command in a new terminal window:
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This will spin up as many processes as there are CPU cores on your machine with 8 worker threads per process. Run dramatiq -h
if you want to see a list of the available command line flags.
As soon as you run that command you’ll see log output along these lines:
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If you open your Python interpreter back up and send the actor some more URLs to process:
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and then switch back to the worker terminal, you’ll see nine new lines:
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At this point, you’re probably wondering what happens if you send the actor an invalid URL. Let’s try it:
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Error Handling 错误处理
使用指数退避算法来重试出错的 actors:
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Dramatiq will keep retrying the message with longer and longer delays in between runs until we fix our code or for up to about 30 days from when it was first enqueued.
Change count_words
to catch the missing schema error:
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Then send SIGHUP
to the main worker process to make the workers pick up the source code changes:
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Substitute the process ID of your own main process for <dramatiq-worker-pid>
. You can find the PID by looking at the log lines from the worker starting up. Look for lines containing the string [dramatiq.MainProcess]
.
The next time your message is retried you should see:
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Code Reloading
Sending SIGHUP
to the workers every time you make a change is going to get old quick. Instead, you can run the command line utility with the --watch
flag pointing to the folder it should watch for source code changes. It’ll reload the workers whenever Python files under that folder or any of its sub-folders change:
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Warning: Although this is a handy feature to use when developing your code, you should avoid using it in production!
Message Retries
除了默认的指数退避算法,你还可以向装饰器传入参数 max_retries
来指定最大重试次数
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If you want to retry certain exceptions and not others, you can pass a predicate function via the retry_when
parameter:
如果你想要对不同 exceptions 结果进行不同的重试处理,使用 retry_when
参数
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The following retry options are configurable on a per-actor basis:
Option | Default | Description |
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max_retries | 20 | 最大重试次数. None means the message should be retried indefinitely. |
min_backoff | 15 seconds | 指数退避中,两次重试间隔的最小时间,单位为 milliseconds 毫秒 Must be greater than 100 milliseconds. |
max_backoff | 7 days | 指数退避中,两次重试间隔的最大时间,单位为 milliseconds 毫秒 Higher values are less reliable. |
retry_when | None | 一个函数,决定 actor 是否被重试. When this is set, max_retries is ignored. |
throws | None | An exception or a tuple of exceptions that must not get retried if they are raised from within the actor. |
Message Age Limits
Instead of limiting the number of times messages can be retried, you might want to expire old messages. You can specify the max_age
of messages (given in milliseconds) on a per-actor basis:
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Dead Letters
Once a message has exceeded its retry or age limits, it gets moved to the dead letter queue where it’s kept for up to 7 days and then automatically dropped from the message broker. From here, you can manually inspect the message and decide whether or not it should be put back on the queue.
Message Time Limits
In count_words
, we didn’t set an explicit timeout for the outbound request which means that it can take a very long time to complete if the server we’re requesting is timing out. Dramatiq has a default actor time limit of 10 minutes, which means that any actor running for longer than 10 minutes is killed with a TimeLimitExceeded
error.
actor 运行的最长时间默认为 10 分钟
You can control these time limits at the individual actor level by specifying the time_limit
(in milliseconds) of each one:
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Note: While this will keep our actor from running forever, remember that you should take care to always specify a timeout for the request itself, and this is not a good way to handle request timeouts in production code.
Handling Time Limits
If you want to gracefully handle time limits within an actor, you can wrap its source code in a try block and catch TimeLimitExceeded
:
使用 TimeLimitExceeded
异常来捕获超时情况
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Scheduling Messages
You can schedule messages to run some time in the future by calling send_with_options
on actors and providing a delay
(in milliseconds):
延迟运行函数
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Keep in mind that your message broker is not a database. Scheduled messages should represent a small subset of all your messages.
Prioritizing Messages
使用 priority
参数来指定 actor 的优先级,数字越低,优先级越高
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Although all positive integers represent valid priorities, if you’re going to use this feature, I’d recommend setting up constants for the various priorities you plan to use:
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Message Brokers
Dramatiq abstracts over the notion of a message broker and currently supports both RabbitMQ and Redis out of the box. By default, it’ll set up a RabbitMQ broker instance pointing at the local host.
RabbitMQ Broker
To configure the RabbitMQ host, instantiate a RabbitmqBroker
and set it as the global broker as early as possible during your program’s execution:
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Redis Broker
To use Dramatiq with the Redis broker, create an instance of it and set it as the global broker as early as possible during your program’s execution:
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Unit Testing
Dramatiq provides a StubBroker
that can be used in unit tests so you don’t have to have a running RabbitMQ or Redis instance in order to run your tests. My recommendation is to use it in conjunction with pytest fixtures:
broker.py
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conftest.py
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Then you can inject and use those fixtures in your tests:
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Because all actors are callable, you can of course also unit test them synchronously by calling them as you would normal functions.
Dealing with Exceptions
By default, any exceptions raised by an actor are raised in the worker, which runs in a separate thread from the one your tests run in. This means that any exceptions your actor throws will not be visible to your test code!
You can make the stub broker re-raise exceptions from failed actors in your main thread by passing fail_fast=True
to its join
method:
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This way, whatever exception caused the actor to fail will be raised eagerly within your test. Note that the exception will only be raised once the actor exceeds its available retries.
Best Practices 最佳实践
Concurrent Actors
Your actor will run concurrently with other actors in the system. You need to be mindful of the impact this has on your database, any third party services you might be calling and the resources available on the systems running your workers. Additionally, you need to be mindful of data races between actors that manipulate the same objects in your database.
Retriable Actors
Dramatiq actors may receive the same message multiple times in the event of a worker failure (hardware, network or power failure). This means that, for any given message, running your actor multiple times must be safe. This is also known as being “idempotent”.
Simple Messages
Attempting to send an actor any object that can’t be encoded to JSON by the standard json
package will fail immediately so you’ll want to limit your actor parameters to the following object types: bool, int, float, bytes, string, list and dict.
Additionally, since messages are sent over the wire you’ll want to keep them as short as possible. For example, if you’ve got an actor that operates over User
objects in your system, send that actor the user’s id rather than the serialized user.
Error Reporting
Invariably, you’re probably going to introduce issues in production every now and then and some of those issues are going to affect your tasks. You should use an error reporting service such as Sentry so you get notified of these errors as soon as they occur.
控制 Workers
Dramatiq 进程接受如下信号:
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INT
和 TERM
Sending an INT
or TERM
signal to the main process triggers graceful shutdown. Consumer threads will stop receiving new work and worker threads will finish processing the work they have in flight before shutting down. Any tasks still in worker memory at this point are re-queued on the broker.
优雅地关闭 Dramatiq
- 消费线程停止接受新的 actors
- worker 线程先执行完当前 actor 再关闭
- 一些遗留在 worker memory 的任务填回队列
If you send a second INT
or TERM
signal then the worker processes will be killed immediately.
HUP
Sending HUP
to the main process triggers a graceful shutdown followed by a reload of the workers. This is useful if you want to reload code without completely restarting the main process.
Using gevent
Dramatiq comes with a CLI utility called dramatiq-gevent
that can run workers under gevent. The following invocation would run 8 worker processes with 250 greenlets per process for a total of 2k lightweight worker threads:
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If your tasks spend most of their time doing network IO and don’t depend on C extensions to execute those network calls then using gevent could provide a significant performance improvement.
I suggest at least experimenting with it to see if it fits your use case.
中间件
Dramaiq 提供了一些功能丰富的中间件
使用
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DIY
dramatiq_dashboard
第三方库,可视化仪表盘
其他技巧
控制单个 actor 函数的并发量
dramtiq 提供了一个 ConcurrentRateLimiter 类来控制单个 actor 函数的并发量,具体原理就是设定一个互斥量 mutex 来保证同一时刻只有指定数量的 actor 在执行。
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可以将其封装成中间件
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使用示例:
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