Only one strategy is fine to me.

When the multiplier is set to 1, the exponential-delay will become
fixed-delay.
So fixed-delay may not be needed.

Best,
Rui

On Mon, Jan 8, 2024 at 2:17 PM Yong Fang <zjur...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I agree with @Rui that the current configuration for Flink Client is a
> little complex. Can we just provide one strategy with less configuration
> items for all scenarios?
>
> Best,
> Fang Yong
>
> On Mon, Jan 8, 2024 at 11:19 AM Rui Fan <1996fan...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Thanks xiangyu for driving this proposal! And sorry for the
> > late reply.
> >
> > Overall looks good to me, I only have some minor questions:
> >
> > 1. Do we need to introduce 3 collect strategies in the first version?
> >
> > Large and comprehensive configuration items will bring
> > additional learning costs and usage costs to users. I tend to
> > provide users with out-of-the-box parameters and 2 collect
> > strategies may be enough for users.
> >
> > IIUC, there is no big difference between exponential-delay and
> > incremental-delay, especially the default parameters provided.
> > I wonder could we provide a multiplier for exponential-delay strategy
> > and removing the incremental-delay strategy?
> >
> > Of course, if you think multiplier option is not needed based on
> > your production experience, it's totally fine for me. Simple is better.
> >
> > 2. Which strategy do you think is best in mass production?
> >
> > I'm working on FLIP-364[1], it's related to Flink failover restart
> > strategy. IIUC, when one cluster only has a few flink jobs,
> > fixed-delay is fine. It guarantees minimal latency without too
> > much stress. But if one cluster has too many jobs, fixed-delay
> > may not be stable.
> >
> > Do you think exponential-delay is better than fixed delay in this
> > scenario? And which strategy is used in your production for now?
> > Would you mind sharing it?
> >
> > Looking forwarding to your opinion~
> >
> > Best,
> > Rui
> >
> > On Sat, Jan 6, 2024 at 5:54 PM xiangyu feng <xiangyu...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > Thanks for the comments.
> > >
> > > If there is no further comment, we will open the voting thread next
> week.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Xiangyu
> > >
> > > Zhanghao Chen <zhanghao.c...@outlook.com> 于2024年1月3日周三 16:46写道:
> > >
> > > > Thanks for driving this effort on improving the interactive use
> > > experience
> > > > of Flink. The proposal overall looks good to me.
> > > >
> > > > Best,
> > > > Zhanghao Chen
> > > > ________________________________
> > > > From: xiangyu feng <xiangyu...@gmail.com>
> > > > Sent: Tuesday, December 26, 2023 16:51
> > > > To: dev@flink.apache.org <dev@flink.apache.org>
> > > > Subject: [Discuss] FLIP-407: Improve Flink Client performance in
> > > > interactive scenarios
> > > >
> > > > Hi devs,
> > > >
> > > > I'm opening this thread to discuss FLIP-407: Improve Flink Client
> > > > performance in interactive scenarios. The POC test results and design
> > doc
> > > > can be found at: FLIP-407
> > > > <
> > > >
> > >
> >
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLINK/FLIP-407%3A+Improve+Flink+Client+performance+when+interacting+with+dedicated+Flink+Session+Clusters
> > > > >
> > > > .
> > > >
> > > > Currently, Flink Client is mainly designed for one time interaction
> > with
> > > > the Flink Cluster. All the resources(http connections, threads, ha
> > > > services) and instances(ClusterDescriptor, ClusterClient, RestClient)
> > are
> > > > created and recycled for each interaction. This works well when users
> > do
> > > > not need to interact frequently with Flink Cluster and also saves
> > > resource
> > > > usage since resources are recycled immediately after each usage.
> > > >
> > > > However, in OLAP or StreamingWarehouse scenarios, users might submit
> > > > interactive jobs to a dedicated Flink Session Cluster very often. In
> > this
> > > > case, we find that for short queries that can finish in less than 1s
> in
> > > > Flink Cluster will still have E2E latency greater than 2s. Hence, we
> > > > propose this FLIP to improve the Flink Client performance in this
> > > scenario.
> > > > This could also improve the user experience when using session debug
> > > mode.
> > > >
> > > > The major change in this FLIP is that there will be a new introduced
> > > option
> > > > *'execution.interactive-client'*. When this option is enabled, Flink
> > > > Client will reuse all the necessary resources to improve interactive
> > > > performance, including: HA Services, HTTP connections, threads and
> all
> > > > kinds of instances related to a long-running Flink Cluster. The
> default
> > > > value of this option will be false, then Flink Client will behave as
> > > > before.
> > > >
> > > > Also, this FLIP proposed a configurable RetryStrategy when fetching
> > > results
> > > > from client-side to Flink Cluster. In interactive scenarios, this can
> > > save
> > > > more than 15% of TM CPU usage without performance degradation.
> > > >
> > > > Looking forward to your feedback, thanks.
> > > >
> > > > Best regards,
> > > > Xiangyu
> > > >
> > >
> >
>

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