By Charlie McLouth, Director of Technical Sales at Perforce Information on our upcoming scalability improvements and our version control data mining tool, Insights.

1. 100x & Insights
Charlie McLouth
PERFORCE

2. Distributed, Scalable Architecture
Replication
Service
D/R
Versioning
Service
Proxy
Build
Replica
Proxy

3. 100X Initiative
Distributed
100X
Large Scale
Build
Replicas
Today
Distributed
Proxy
Hardware
Data Center
Concurrency
Optimization
Worldwide
Scalability

4. 100X: Large Scale
P4D
100%
Activity

5. 100X: Large Scale
Commit
2%
Activity
98%
Activity
Edge

6. 100X: Large Scale
Commit
2%
Activity
49%
Activity
Edge
49%
Activity
Edge

7. 100X: Large Scale
Commit
2%
Activity
33%
Activity
Edge
33%
Activity
Edge
33%
Activity
Edge

8. Large Scale
Distributed Scalability
“Edge”
Replica
“Edge”
Replica
• Eliminate WAN
traffic for many
operations
• Reduce data
transfer
Main
Server

9. Remote Sites: Just Faster
COMMON OPERATIONS WITH 128MS LATENCY
70
60
61
56.6
seconds
50
40
30
20
9.8
8.7
10
0
Sync
Revert
Integrate
Direct
Edit

10. Remote Sites: Just Faster
COMMON OPERATIONS WITH 128MS LATENCY
70
60
61
56.6
seconds
50
40
30
20
10
0
9.8
8.7
0.9
Sync
0.7
1.8
Revert
Integrate
Direct
Edge
0.2
Edit

11. Concurrency Optimization
p4 submit
Writer
TODAY
Reader blocks writer
Writer blocks reader
p4 changes
Reader
Database

12. Concurrency Optimization
TODAY
Reader blocks writer
Writer blocks reader
Writer Waits
Writer
Reader
Reader Waits
Reader
Reader
TIME
Reader

13. Concurrency Optimization
p4 submit
Writer
2013.3
Reader does not block writer
Writer does not block reader
p4 changes
Reader
Database

14. Concurrency Optimization
2013.3
Reader does not block writer
Writer does not block reader
Writer
Reader
Reader
Reader
TIME

15. Datacenter Scalability
…
Dispatcher
Data
Center
Globally shared data

16. Worldwide Scalability
…
Data
Center
Globally shared data
…
Remote
Site
Globally shared data

17. Roadmap
2013.2
• Large-scale/
distributed
• Commit/edge
architecture
2013.3
• Concurrency
optimization
• Lockless reads
2014.1
• Datacenter
scalability
• Clustering
2014.2
• Worldwide
scalability
• Distributed
clusters

18. Perforce Insights
Optimize Your Processes

19. Perforce
Insights
• Measure and predict
• Codeline metrics
• Glances (project,
quality, hotspots…)
• System management
metrics
• Harvest warehouse
of Perforce data
• User extensible

20. Roadmap
2013.2
• Personalization
• Custom installation
2013.3
• Installation
wizard
2014.1
• Integration of
Swarm data
• Multiple servers
• 3rd party data
integrations

21. Thank
You!