Additionally this might give some ideas (slide 14 onwards) for handling these 
types of problems.

http://www.slideshare.net/Hadoop_Summit/design-patterns-for-real-time-streaming-data-analytics
 






On 12/9/15, 4:20 PM, "James Sirota" <[email protected]> wrote:

>So the nature of the problem was that as we were processing ~1.3 million of 
>messages per second the time it took for the in-memory DB to update caused the 
>Storm tuples to back up to a point where this would bring down the topology.  
>We also had problems during initialization.  I don’t know if this feature 
>exists now, but at the time we couldn’t figure out a way to have the topology 
>deploy and wait for all the instances of Geo bolt to finish reading their data 
>and signal back that they were ready.  So at initialization they would get 
>blasted with tuples and fall over.  We solved that problem at the time by 
>delaying our ingest 30 seconds to give the topology a chance to fully come up. 
> But eventually we decided we needed to simplify things so we abandoned the 
>in-memory route.  
>
>Thanks,
>James    
>
>
>
>On 12/9/15, 5:35 PM, "Bryan Taylor" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>>The GeoLite site says they update once a month, so I assume something can
>>check for this and grab the new file. It seems like a fun problem to have
>>this also trigger a rebuild of the in-memory cache and swap it out live.
>>This seems like it would be a useful streaming enrichment pattern, where
>>the configuration data for the enrichment changes.
>>
>>This does raise another interesting question about what do we expect the
>>memory profile of the steam processing to be. 70Mb + 40Mb isn't that big
>>by itself, but when is it worth it? and how do operators take advantage of
>>more system memory if they have it.
>>
>>
>>On 12/9/15 4:32 PM, "James Sirota" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>>Hi Bryan,
>>>
>>>We had HSQLDB at one point, but we were struggling to make these bolts
>>>reliable.  Also, the geo data needs to be periodically updated and it¹s
>>>easier to do when it¹s decoupled.
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>James
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>On 12/9/15, 4:26 PM, "Bryan Taylor" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>>[Sorry about the stupid COMMERCIAL: tag being added - I'm trying to fix
>>>>with our email folks]
>>>>
>>>>Nice.
>>>>
>>>>I was just looking around at the geotagging enrichment adapter. The city
>>>>data is split between the two files of 70Mb and 40Mb sizes. It seems like
>>>>the data is small enough to just load it all into memory. This would
>>>>eliminate two SQL queries for every event.
>>>>
>>>>Bryan
>>>>
>>>>On 12/9/15 2:14 PM, "Mark Bittmann" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>Hi Bryan,
>>>>>
>>>>>For automation, B23 is planning to contribute Ansible scripts to deploy
>>>>>the Metron stack. The playbooks use Ambari blueprints for the hadoop
>>>>>ecosystem. We also install Elasticsearch, configure the legacy OpenSOC
>>>>>UI
>>>>>(based on Kibana/nodejs), create directories in hdfs, populate a MySQL
>>>>>database for geotagging. We template the OpenSOC_Config files so that we
>>>>>can use variable injection for the different services: Zookeeper, Hbase,
>>>>>Elasticsearch, MySQL, etc. Everyone's deployment might be slightly
>>>>>different, but I think this will be a really good start.
>>>>>
>>>>>I'm in the process of decoupling the scripts from our internal tooling -
>>>>>I should be able to make available the Ambari stuff later this week.
>>>>>Once
>>>>>we merge the disparate forks of the Cisco codebase, there will be some
>>>>>work to bring the playbooks up to date (i.e., use of Storm Flux), but
>>>>>not
>>>>>a ton.
>>>>>
>>>>>Mark
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>On 12/9/15, 2:48 PM, "Bryan Taylor" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Seems like a good list. I'm probably not your UI guy, but I'll be happy
>>>>>>to
>>>>>>help with any of the others. Test coverage is probably a good place for
>>>>>>me
>>>>>>to start learning my way around. Do we have CI set up? I see a travis
>>>>>>file
>>>>>>in the code.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Regarding automation deployments, are we targeting Ambari or something
>>>>>>else? 
>>>>>>
>>>>>>On the hadoop component compatibility, I see from the opens-streaming
>>>>>>pom
>>>>>>that we are using Storm-0.9.2, Kafka 0.8.0, Hadoop 2.2.0, and HBase
>>>>>>0.98.0-hadoop2. These are all several iterations old. How aggressive do
>>>>>>we
>>>>>>want to be, generally, with tracking new releases? Are Hive, Flume, and
>>>>>>Spark also going to up rev for us?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Bryan
>>>>>>
>>>>>>On 12/9/15 12:22 PM, "James Sirota" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Hi Brian,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Welcome.  Glad to have you contribute.  There will be changes to the
>>>>>>>code
>>>>>>>base that the community will contribute back shortly.  We are waiting
>>>>>>>for
>>>>>>>the Jira to be setup so the backlog can be created and voted on.  I
>>>>>>>think
>>>>>>>the overall feeling is that we need to make the code base compatible
>>>>>>>with
>>>>>>>the latest version of HDP, automate deployments, increase test
>>>>>>>coverage,
>>>>>>>and start working on a new UI.  There may be more significant
>>>>>>>architectural changes to the code base, but we need to get the
>>>>>>>essential
>>>>>>>items knocked out before we go there.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Thanks,
>>>>>>>James
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>On 12/9/15, 11:52 AM, "Bryan Taylor" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>Hi Folks,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>I just joined the list and thought I'd say "hi". I work at Rackspace
>>>>>>>>and
>>>>>>>>will be joining Andrew Hartnett's team there and hacking on metron.
>>>>>>>>This
>>>>>>>>is my first ASF project and I'm looking forward to being part of this
>>>>>>>>community.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>I'm curious what the development vision is for metron. What do people
>>>>>>>>like and not like about the codebase? I gather this code transitioned
>>>>>>>>from a Cisco internal project and is incubating now at the ASF. Are
>>>>>>>>there any code changes that need to be made to support incubation?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>Bryan
>>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>
>>

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