Hi all,
I spent a little time since 2.0.0 to write a guide for runner authors,
aimed at covering everything you need to know and what you need to do to
get a Beam runner off the ground:
https://s.apache.org/beam-runner-guide
It is meant as a complement to Luke's great docs on the Fn API, covering
the other bits that are not the actual UDF invocations. Between the Runner
[API] docs and the Fn API docs, I'm really excited about the Beam
portability story.
Our current runners have already gone through a lot of this, but they did
not all hit the same snags. So I hope this will also be a place where
lessons learned while polishing one runner can be stored and applied to
others.
I think this should be a living document that incorporates lessons from
other runner authors and contributors, so I am shipping it with TODOs,
comments, and some fairly brief sections where I am hoping folks will enjoy
contributing :-). At some point this content could be incorporated
somewhere deep in the web page, not meant for pipeline authors, but let's
wait and see on that.
Kenn
