This will be awesome feature. I can see the usecases for production scenario as well as developement/troubleshooting environments.
Excellent value add. ~ Yogi On 4 August 2016 at 12:40, Sandesh Hegde <sand...@datatorrent.com> wrote: > Hello Team, > > This thread is to discuss the Named Checkpoint feature for Apex. ( > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/APEXCORE-498) > > Named checkpoints allow following workflow, > > 1. Users can trigger a checkpoint and give it a name > 2. Relaunch the application from the named checkpoint. > 3. These checkpoints survive the "purge of old checkpoints". > > Current idea is to add a new control tuple, NamedCheckPointTuple, which > contains the user specified name, it traverses the DAG and along the way > necessary actions are taken. > > Please let me know your thoughts on this. > > Thanks >