Lakshmi, I would prefer we move the ratelimiter interface to the appropriate location before we merge the PR.
Thanks, Thomas On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 5:29 PM Lakshmi Gururaja Rao <l...@lyft.com> wrote: > @Thomas Weise <thomas.we...@gmail.com> that seems reasonable to me. I'll > create a JIRA to track this. > > @Roshan > The idea of a ratelimiting operator did come up before > <https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/8140b759ba83f33a22d809887fd2d711f5ffe7069c888eb9b1142272@%3Cdev.flink.apache.org%3E>. > The main concerns around that approach were: > 1) Checkpoint barriers not flowing through (as a ratelimiting operator > would introduce backpressure). > 2) If the operator is downstream of the source. the data is already > deserialized at that point and the byte count will thus not be accurate. > > On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 10:59 PM Roshan Naik <roshan_n...@yahoo.com.invalid> > wrote: > >> Sorry, not looked into it much... but it occurred to me that it would be >> great to have it as "Throttling: Operator" that can be applied anywhere >> after a source and before a sink. Each parallel instance of it can operate >> at the specified rate limit divided by the number of parallel instances of >> this operator. >> On Tuesday, February 26, 2019, 7:39:06 PM PST, Thomas Weise < >> t...@apache.org> wrote: >> >> Since we want to be able to use the rate limiter for multiple connectors >> and potentially elsewhere, plus it is user facing, this seems to be the >> right area. Perhaps org.apache.flink.api.common.io specifically? >> >> >> On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 5:40 PM Lakshmi Gururaja Rao >> <l...@lyft.com.invalid> >> wrote: >> >> > Hi all, >> > >> > The PR that I've been iterating on w.r.t. Kafka ratelimiting — >> > https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/7679 is now in a state where a >> lot of >> > the rate limiting logic is generic and does not apply specifically to >> > Kafka. I'd thus, like to move it to a module that is outside of the* >> > flink-connector-kafka-0.9/. *Looking at some of the other common >> modules, >> > it seems like org.apache.flink.api.java >> > < >> > >> https://github.com/lyft/flink/tree/master/flink-core/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/api/java >> > > >> > maybe >> > a good option? Thoughts or suggestions? >> > >> > Thanks, >> > Lakshmi >> > > > > > -- > *Lakshmi Gururaja Rao* > SWE > 217.778.7218 <+12177787218> > [image: Lyft] <http://www.lyft.com/> >