I'm pleased to announce that the Samza PMC has voted to invite Rayman & Bharath as committers, and they have accepted.
Please join us in congratulating them on this recognition! A quick summary of their accomplishments.. *Rayman * Ray has been driving multiple improvements to Samza for stateful applications. He built a state-replication feature for quicker failure recovery (aka "Hot standby containers <https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SAMZA/SEP-19%3A+Hot+standby+state+for+Samza+applications>"). His work on parallel restore <https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CHJl7K9QE3eB2QQPklwn76k8WvUQLqf-/view> to RocksDb reduces our bootstrap times considerably. In addition to being the release-master for the Samza 1.0 <https://engineering.linkedin.com/blog/2018/11/samza-1-0--stream-processing-at-massive-scale> release, he improved Samza's operability <https://github.com/apache/samza-hello-samza/pull/43>with his work on the "Diagnostics" feature. *Bharath* Bharath has a history of contributing multiple impactful features to Samza. His contributions include "side-input" stores, in-memory streams <https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=71013043> to enable unit-testing, stability enhancements to Samza-standalone and our upgrade <https://github.com/apache/samza/pull/951>to Kafka 2.0. In addition to shepherding a successful 0.14 release, he also designed and built our async-high-level API <https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SAMZA/SEP-21%3A+Samza+Async+API+for+High+Level> . Thank you Ray and Bharath for your contributions. We look forward to more :) -- Jagadish V (for the Apache Samza PMC)
