Modernizing Event Emission Infrastructure with Fluent Stack - Asana Case Study

Explore the journey of Asana's event emission infrastructure modernization in this 22-minute conference talk. Discover how the company transitioned from an old logging system based on Facebook's Scribe to Fluent Bit in 2021, addressing high flexibility, performance, and durability requirements for powering crucial features like mobile notifications. Learn about the challenges faced, the implementation of the Fluent Node library, and the successful scaling to 3.5 billion events per day. Gain insights into the decision-making process, the advantages of Fluent, and the lessons learned throughout the migration, including topics such as API events, testing, the Fluent Protocol, and disk buffering.

Introduction
Background
Event Logging
API
Events
Requirements
Scribe
Options
Why Fluent
Ease of Use
Multiple Tags
Fluentd
Tags
Testing
The big problem
Fluent Protocol
Fluent Pit
Fluent Pit Issues
Timeline
Learnings
Disk Buffering