Awesome! This is really cool; thanks for the email Henning. On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 3:40 PM, Henning Rohde <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi everyone, > > We have been prototyping a Go SDK for Beam for some time and have reached > a point, where we think this effort might be of interest to the wider Beam > community and would benefit from being developed in a proper feature > branch. We have prepared a PR to that end: > > https://github.com/apache/beam/pull/4200 > > Please note that the prototype supports batch only, for now, and includes > various examples that run on the Go direct runner. Go would be the first > SDK targeting the portability framework exclusively and our plan is to > extend and benefit from that ecosystem. > > We have also prepared an RFC document with the initial design, motivations > and tradeoffs made: > > https://s.apache.org/beam-go-sdk-design-rfc > > The challenge is that Go is quite a tricky language for Beam due to > various limitations, notably strong typing w/o generics, and so the > approaches taken by Java and Python do not readily apply. > > Of course, neither the prototype nor the design are in any way final -- > there are many open questions and we absolutely welcome ideas and > contributions. Please let us know if you have any comments or objections > (or would like to help!). > > Thanks, > Henning Rohde, Bill Neubauer, and Robert Burke > -- ------- Jason Kuster Apache Beam / Google Cloud Dataflow
