Just a reminder - meeting in ~ 50 minutes :)

On Wed, Feb 16, 2022 at 2:34 PM Jarek Potiuk <[email protected]> wrote:

> Happy to hear if others have some experiences with in-process (and what I
> really want is to make some benchmarking to see how much overhead each
> option involves. I'd say that the "coarseness" of the calls (with maybe
> exception of Connection/variable retrieval etc. will make the
> serialization/deserialization will have very little impact on performance
> (but without actually checking it it's hard to say for sure). Another
> option is if inter-process communication will turn into a problem (and I
> saw people doing it in C++) - people did "rip" some parts of thrift to only
> leave a "serialization/deserialization". But in our case - if we find that
> either the need to have separate process or communication involves a lot of
> overhead we could come back to the idea of delegating the calls via
> decorators.
>
> On Wed, Feb 16, 2022 at 2:22 PM Jarek Potiuk <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I looked at that too - and let me leave that as an option to explore in
>> the first step. I will make a note.
>>
>> From what I checked - none of the current "ready-to-use" gRPC solutions
>> have such an "in-process" option. I believe the "RPC framework re-use" for
>> serialization/deserialization/transport might save a LOT of headache.
>>
>> However - Apache Thrift supports "shared-memory" transport. I still think
>> it requires a separate process (To be confirmed).
>> The gRPC  one supports local TCP and Unix Sockets only. The in-memory
>> option is not there (though people asked for it
>> https://github.com/grpc/grpc/issues/19959)
>>
>> J.
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 16, 2022 at 2:13 PM Ash Berlin-Taylor <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> That wasn't actually quite what I had in mind :)
>>>
>>> I was thinking that we _wouldn't_ go cross process at all, but in the
>>> "local"/direct mode we will as-directly-as-possible call the handler code.
>>> So for local/no-isolation we would still use the handler for the RPC, but
>>> there it's just not "remote".
>>>
>>> -ash
>>>
>>> On Wed, Feb 16 2022 at 13:01:11 +0100, Jarek Potiuk <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hey Everyone,
>>>
>>> Based on the feedback, I updated DAG-44
>>> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/AIRFLOW/AIP-44+Airflow+Internal+API
>>> - the "implementation notes" with improved approach.
>>>
>>> Ash had a good suggestion (which I really like) that instead of
>>> inventing our own decorators and different way of handling the internal and
>>> external communication for the "coarse" functions that require the
>>> database, we could approach it  differently - namely we could always use
>>> RPC - no matter if we are in DB isolation mode or "no isolation" mode. Of
>>> course in case of the "no isolation" mode, the communication should have
>>> very low overhead (local TCP or Sockets, no authorization). I looked at
>>> existing RPC implementations we could use for that and I narrowed down
>>> potential choice of technologies to gRPC and Apache Thrift for that.
>>>
>>> This approach has multiple advantages:
>>>
>>> * we can leverage existing RPC implementations (Thrift and gRPC are both
>>> mature and have integration with HTTPS, various authentication options and
>>> can be also run using local sockets)
>>> * the code will be much simpler to maintain - we will use existing
>>> serialization mechanisms from those protocols
>>> * no custom code for communication needed - both Thrift and gRPC have
>>> all that is needed for scalable, robust communication
>>>
>>> I think this way we will be able to implement a more robust and
>>> maintainable solution much faster.
>>>
>>> I also reached out to Apache Beam (they have support for both gRPC and
>>> Thrift and are in the process of transitioning - from Thrift to gRPC as
>>> primary protocol and I am sure they have done a lot of analysis that can
>>> help us to make the final decision.
>>>
>>> This approach changes only the implementation details of the AIP-44 -
>>> all the rest is the same, the approach, deployment options remain untouched
>>> by this change.
>>>
>>> If you have any comments to that - feel free/ I will also discuss it
>>> today at the meeting and if there will be general consensus that the
>>> direction is right I would love to start voting on AIP-44 ideally tomorrow
>>> - so that next week we can start implementing it. I am not sure if we want
>>> to make a final decision about gRPC/Thrift (maybe there are people who have
>>> good experience both and can share it here?).
>>>
>>> I think more detailed POC and benchmarking might be the first step of
>>> the AiP - where we make the final choice based on an attempt to implement
>>> POC for both - but I am also happy to listen to those who have more
>>> experience with both (and maybe Beam experience will help with that)..
>>>
>>> J.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Feb 15, 2022 at 1:49 PM Jarek Potiuk <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> The meeting is tomorrow :)/ Feel free to join I will also record it
>>>> and publish minutes!
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Feb 15, 2022 at 12:31 PM Giorgio Zoppi <[email protected]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> >
>>>> > Hello Everyone,
>>>> > is there any follow up of this meeting? I would like to participate
>>>> if it's possible.
>>>> > Best Regards,
>>>> > Giorgio
>>>> >
>>>> > Il giorno mar 1 feb 2022 alle ore 15:29 Jarek Potiuk <
>>>> [email protected]> ha scritto:
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Hello Everyone,
>>>> >>
>>>> >>  I think it's about the time for the next sig-multitenancy meeting :
>>>> >>
>>>> >> I created a doodle poll for next week - please mark your
>>>> availability till Friday the 4th.
>>>> >>
>>>> >>
>>>> https://doodle.com/poll/axvu2gz7zhv8ieye?utm_source=poll&utm_medium=link
>>>> >>
>>>> >> I think what the rough agenda will be:
>>>> >>
>>>> >> * AIP-43 Dag Processor Separation [1] - implementation progress -
>>>> Mateusz
>>>> >> * AIP-44 Airflow Internal API [2] - voting progress (hopefully) -
>>>> Jarek
>>>> >> * AIP-45 Remove double DAG parsing [3] -  discussion - Ping
>>>> >> * AIP-46 Docker runtime isolation [4] - discussion - Ping
>>>> >> * Also there are some ideas (not yet in AIP form) around optimizing
>>>> DagProcessorLoop that might be good to talk about - also Ping.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> If there are any more proposals - feel free to ping me.
>>>> >> I also encourage everyone to comment the AIP-45/46 proposals from
>>>> Ping before the meeting.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> [1]
>>>> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/AIRFLOW/AIP-43+DAG+Processor+separation
>>>> >> [2]
>>>> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/AIRFLOW/AIP-44+Airflow+Internal+API
>>>> >> [3]
>>>> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/AIRFLOW/AIP-45+Remove+double+dag+parsing+in+airflow+run
>>>> >> [4]
>>>> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/AIRFLOW/AIP-46+Add+support+for+docker+runtime+isolation+for+airflow+tasks+and+dag+parsing
>>>> >>
>>>> >> J.
>>>> >>
>>>> >>
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> > --
>>>> > Life is a chess game - Anonymous.
>>>>
>>>

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