Here it is

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YDFNvLTX6Sg3WDrNFKiWLaJvuEtK4eyxEaA0w9cVlG4/edit#heading=h.d6uy2uxfs2xq

cheers
/karthik


On Sun, May 6, 2018 at 8:20 AM, Bill Graham <[email protected]> wrote:

> Can you share the doc please?
>
> On Sat, May 5, 2018 at 4:18 PM Ning Wang <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Yeah I have read the design doc. It has a section for scaling and covers
> > some designs but not reaching this level of details I am afraid.
> >
> > On Sat, May 5, 2018 at 9:45 AM, Bill Graham <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> >> The stateful processing design included a large section on scaling,
> which
> >> was intended to be done as a future phase. It's very similar to what's
> >> being described. Sanjeev and I worked on it about a 1.5 years ago with
> >> Maosong and it was in a google doc. Sanjeev do you have that design
> doc? I
> >> can't seem locate it.
> >>
> >> On Sat, May 5, 2018 at 12:03 AM, Ning Wang <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> > If we go this way, we need key -> state map for each component so that
> >> the
> >> > state data can be repartitioned.
> >> >
> >> > On Fri, May 4, 2018 at 11:44 PM, Karthik Ramasamy <[email protected]
> >
> >> > wrote:
> >> >
> >> > > Instead - if it references
> >> > >
> >> > > topology name + component name + key range
> >> > >
> >> > > will it be better?
> >> > >
> >> > > cheers
> >> > > /karthik
> >> > >
> >> > >
> >> > > On Fri, May 4, 2018 at 11:23 PM, Ning Wang <[email protected]>
> >> wrote:
> >> > >
> >> > > > Currently I think each Instance serializes the state object into a
> >> byte
> >> > > > array and checkpoint manager saves the byte array into a file. The
> >> file
> >> > > is
> >> > > > referenced by topology name + component name + instance id.
> >> > > >
> >> > > > On Fri, May 4, 2018 at 11:10 PM, Karthik Ramasamy <
> >> [email protected]>
> >> > > > wrote:
> >> > > >
> >> > > > > I am not sure I understand why the state is tied to an instance?
> >> > > > >
> >> > > > > cheers
> >> > > > > /karthik
> >> > > > >
> >> > > > > On Fri, May 4, 2018 at 4:36 PM, Thomas Cooper <
> >> > [email protected]>
> >> > > > > wrote:
> >> > > > >
> >> > > > > > Yeah, state recovery is a bit more difficult with Heron's
> >> > > architecture.
> >> > > > > In
> >> > > > > > Storm, the task IDs are not just values used for routing they
> >> > > actually
> >> > > > > > equate to a task instance within the executor. An executor
> which
> >> > > > > currently
> >> > > > > > processes the keys 4-8 actually contains 5 task instances of
> the
> >> > same
> >> > > > > > component. So for each task, they just save its state attached
> >> to
> >> > the
> >> > > > > > single task ID and reassemble executors with the new task
> >> > instances.
> >> > > > > >
> >> > > > > > We don't want or have to do that with Heron instances but we
> >> would
> >> > > need
> >> > > > > to
> >> > > > > > have some way to have a state change tied to the task (or
> >> routing
> >> > key
> >> > > > if
> >> > > > > we
> >> > > > > > go to the key range idea). For something like a word count you
> >> > might
> >> > > > save
> >> > > > > > counts using a nested map like: { routing key : {word : count
> >> }}.
> >> > The
> >> > > > > > routing key could be included in the Tuple instance. However,
> >> > whether
> >> > > > > this
> >> > > > > > pattern would work for more generic state cases I don't know?
> >> > > > > >
> >> > > > > > Tom Cooper
> >> > > > > > W: www.tomcooper.org.uk  | Twitter: @tomncooper
> >> > > > > > <https://twitter.com/tomncooper>
> >> > > > > >
> >> > > > > >
> >> > > > > > On Fri, 4 May 2018 at 15:54, Neng Lu <[email protected]>
> >> wrote:
> >> > > > > >
> >> > > > > > > +1 for this idea. As long as the predefined key space is
> large
> >> > > > enough,
> >> > > > > it
> >> > > > > > > should work for most of the cases.
> >> > > > > > >
> >> > > > > > > Based on my experience with topologies, I never saw one
> >> component
> >> > > has
> >> > > > > > more
> >> > > > > > > than 1000 instances in a topology.
> >> > > > > > >
> >> > > > > > > For recovering states from an update, there will be some
> >> problems
> >> > > > > though.
> >> > > > > > > Since the states stored in heron are strongly connected with
> >> each
> >> > > > > > instance,
> >> > > > > > > we either need to have
> >> > > > > > > some resolver does the state repartitioning or stores states
> >> with
> >> > > the
> >> > > > > key
> >> > > > > > > instead of with each instance.
> >> > > > > > >
> >> > > > > > >
> >> > > > > > >
> >> > > > > > > On Fri, May 4, 2018 at 3:01 PM, Karthik Ramasamy <
> >> > > > [email protected]>
> >> > > > > > > wrote:
> >> > > > > > >
> >> > > > > > > > Thanks for sharing. I like the Storm approach
> >> > > > > > > >
> >> > > > > > > > - keeps the implementation simpler
> >> > > > > > > > - state is deterministic across restarts
> >> > > > > > > > - makes it easy to reason and debug
> >> > > > > > > >
> >> > > > > > > > The hard limit is not a problem at all since most of the
> >> > > topologies
> >> > > > > > will
> >> > > > > > > > be never that big.
> >> > > > > > > > If you can handle Twitter topologies cleanly, it is more
> >> that
> >> > > > > > sufficient
> >> > > > > > > I
> >> > > > > > > > believe.
> >> > > > > > > >
> >> > > > > > > > cheers
> >> > > > > > > > /karthik
> >> > > > > > > >
> >> > > > > > > > > On May 4, 2018, at 2:31 PM, Thomas Cooper <
> >> > > > [email protected]>
> >> > > > > > > > wrote:
> >> > > > > > > > >
> >> > > > > > > > > Hi all,
> >> > > > > > > > >
> >> > > > > > > > > A while ago I emailed about the issue of how fields
> (key)
> >> > > grouped
> >> > > > > > > routing
> >> > > > > > > > > in Heron was not consistent across an update and how
> this
> >> > makes
> >> > > > > > > > preserving
> >> > > > > > > > > state across an update very difficult and also makes it
> >> > > > > > > > > difficult/impossible to analyse or predict tuple flows
> >> > through
> >> > > a
> >> > > > > > > > > current/proposed topology physical plan.
> >> > > > > > > > >
> >> > > > > > > > > I suggested adopting Storms approach of pre-defining a
> >> > routing
> >> > > > key
> >> > > > > > > > > space for each component (eg 0-999), so that instead of
> an
> >> > > > instance
> >> > > > > > > > having
> >> > > > > > > > > a single task id that gets reset at every update (eg 10)
> >> it
> >> > > has a
> >> > > > > > range
> >> > > > > > > > of
> >> > > > > > > > > id's (eg 10-16) that changes depending on the
> parallelism
> >> of
> >> > > the
> >> > > > > > > > component.
> >> > > > > > > > > This has the advantage that a key will always hash to
> the
> >> > same
> >> > > > task
> >> > > > > > ID
> >> > > > > > > > for
> >> > > > > > > > > the lifetime of the topology. Meaning recovering state
> >> for an
> >> > > > > > instance
> >> > > > > > > > > after a crash or update is just a case of pulling the
> >> state
> >> > > > linked
> >> > > > > to
> >> > > > > > > the
> >> > > > > > > > > keys in its task ID range.
> >> > > > > > > > >
> >> > > > > > > > > I know the above proposal has issues, not least of all
> >> > placing
> >> > > a
> >> > > > > hard
> >> > > > > > > > upper
> >> > > > > > > > > limit on the scale out of a component, and that some
> >> > > alternative
> >> > > > > > ideas
> >> > > > > > > > are
> >> > > > > > > > > being floated for solving the stateful update issue.
> >> > However, I
> >> > > > > just
> >> > > > > > > > wanted
> >> > > > > > > > > to throw some more weight behind the Storm approach.
> There
> >> > was
> >> > > a
> >> > > > > > recent
> >> > > > > > > > > paper about high-performance network load balancing
> >> > > > > > > > > <https://blog.acolyer.org/2018/05/03/stateless-
> >> > > > > > > > datacenter-load-balancing-with-beamer/>that
> >> > > > > > > > > describes an approach using a fixed key space similar to
> >> > > Storm's
> >> > > > > (see
> >> > > > > > > the
> >> > > > > > > > > section called Stable Hashing - they assign a range 100x
> >> the
> >> > > > > expected
> >> > > > > > > > > connection pool size - which we could do with heron to
> >> > prevent
> >> > > > ever
> >> > > > > > > > hitting
> >> > > > > > > > > the upper scaling limit). Also, this new load balancer,
> >> > Beamer,
> >> > > > > > claims
> >> > > > > > > to
> >> > > > > > > > > be twice as fast as Google's Maglev
> >> > > > > > > > > <https://blog.acolyer.org/2016/03/21/maglev-a-fast-and-
> >> > > > > > > > reliable-software-network-load-balancer/>
> >> > > > > > > > > which again uses a pre-defined keyspace and ID ranges to
> >> > create
> >> > > > > > look-up
> >> > > > > > > > > tables deterministically.
> >> > > > > > > > >
> >> > > > > > > > > I know a load balancer is a different beast to a stream
> >> > > grouping
> >> > > > > but
> >> > > > > > > > there
> >> > > > > > > > > are some interesting ideas in those papers (The links
> >> point
> >> > to
> >> > > > > > summary
> >> > > > > > > > blog
> >> > > > > > > > > posts so you don't have to read the whole paper).
> >> > > > > > > > >
> >> > > > > > > > > Anyway, I just thought I would those papers out there
> and
> >> see
> >> > > > what
> >> > > > > > > people
> >> > > > > > > > > think.
> >> > > > > > > > >
> >> > > > > > > > > Tom Cooper
> >> > > > > > > > > W: www.tomcooper.org.uk  | Twitter: @tomncooper
> >> > > > > > > > > <https://twitter.com/tomncooper>
> >> > > > > > > >
> >> > > > > > > >
> >> > > > > > >
> >> > > > > >
> >> > > > >
> >> > > >
> >> > >
> >> >
> >>
> >
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