Hi Dmitry,
  Glad to hear it was helpful!  Not sure when you checked it out last,
but I made a number of good (I think) improvements in the last couple
days, such as continuations to allow splitting large groups of work
up.


Robert







On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 07:57, Dmitry <[email protected]> wrote:
> Robert,
>
> You grouping_with_date_rollup.py example was extremely helpful. Thanks
> a lot again! :)
>
> On Oct 14, 8:47 pm, Robert Kluin <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hey Carles,
>>   Glad it seems helpful.  I am hoping to get time today to push out
>> some revisions and sample code.
>>
>> Robert
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 05:50, Carles Gonzalez <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > Robert, I took a brief inspection at your code and seems very cool. Exactly
>> > what i was lloking for for my report generation and such.
>> > I'm looking forward for more examples, but it seems a very valuable 
>> > addition
>> > for our toolbox.
>> > Thanks a lot!
>>
>> > On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 9:20 PM, Carles Gonzalez <[email protected]> 
>> > wrote:
>>
>> >> Neat! I'm going to see this code, hopefully I'll understand something :)
>> >> On Wednesday, October 13, 2010, Robert Kluin <[email protected]>
>> >> wrote:
>> >> > Hey Dmitry,
>> >> >    In case it might help, I pushed some code to bitbucket.  At the
>> >> > moment I would (personally) say the code is not too pretty, but it
>> >> > works well.  :)
>> >> >       http://bitbucket.org/thebobert/slagg
>>
>> >> >   Sorry it does not really have good documentation at the moment, but
>> >> > I think the basic example I threw together will give you a good idea
>> >> > of how to use it.  I need to do another cleanup pass over the API to
>> >> > make a few more refinements.
>>
>> >> >    I pulled this code out of one of my apps, and tried to quickly
>> >> > refactor it to be a bit more generic.  We are currently using
>> >> > basically the same code in three apps to do some really complex
>> >> > calculations.  As soon as I get time I will get an example up showing
>> >> > how to use it for neat stuff, like overall, yearly, monthly, and daily
>> >> > aggregates across multiple values (like total dollars and quantity).
>> >> > The cool thing is that you can do all of those aggregations across
>> >> > various groupings, like customer, company, contact, and sales-person,
>> >> > at once.  I'll get that code pushed out in the next few days.
>>
>> >> >   Would love to get some feedback on it.
>>
>> >> > Robert
>>
>> >> > On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 17:26, Dmitry <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >> >> Ben, thanks for your code! I'm trying to understand all this stuff
>> >> >> too...
>> >> >> Robert, any success with your "library"? May be you've already done
>> >> >> all stuff we are trying to implement...
>>
>> >> >> p.s. where is Brett S.:) would like to hear his comments on this
>>
>> >> >> On Sep 21, 1:49 pm, Ben <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >> >>> Thanks for your insights. I would love feedback on this implementation
>> >> >>> (Brett S. suggested we send in our code for
>> >> >>> this)http://pastebin.com/3pUhFdk8
>>
>> >> >>> This implementation is for just one materialized view row at a time
>> >> >>> (e.g. a simple counter, no presence markers). Hopefully putting an ETA
>> >> >>> on the transactional task will relieve the write pressure, since
>> >> >>> usually it should be an old update with an out-of-date sequence number
>> >> >>> and be discarded (the update having already been completed in batch by
>> >> >>> the fork-join-queue).
>>
>> >> >>> I'd love to generalize this to do more than one materialized view row
>> >> >>> but thought I'd get feedback first.
>>
>> >> >>> Thanks,
>> >> >>> Ben
>>
>> >> >>> On Sep 17, 7:30 am, Robert Kluin <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> >> >>> > Responses inline.
>>
>> >> >>> > On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 17:32, Ben <[email protected]>
>> >> >>> > wrote:
>> >> >>> > > I have a question about Brett Slatkin's talk at I/O 2010 on data
>> >> >>> > > pipelines. The question is about slide #67 of his pdf,
>> >> >>> > > corresponding
>> >> >>> > > to minute 51:30 of his talk
>>
>> >> >>> > > >http://code.google.com/events/io/2010/sessions/high-throughput-data-p...
>>
>> >> >>> > > I am wondering what is supposed to happen in the transactional
>> >> >>> > > task
>> >> >>> > > (bullet point 2c). Would these updates to the materialized view
>> >> >>> > > cause
>> >> >>> > > you to write too frequently to the entity group containing the
>> >> >>> > > materialized view?
>>
>> >> >>> > I think there are really two different approaches you can use to
>> >> >>> > insert your work models.
>> >> >>> > 1)  The work models get added to the original entity's group.  So,
>> >> >>> > inside of the original transaction you do not write to the entity
>> >> >>> > group containing the materialized view -- so no contention on it.
>> >> >>> > Commit the transaction and proceed to step 3.
>> >> >>> > 2)  You kick off a transactional task to insert the work model, or
>> >> >>> > fan-out more tasks to create work models  :).   Then you proceed to
>> >> >>> > step 3.
>>
>> >> >>> > You can use method 1 if you have only a few aggregates.  If you have
>> >> >>> > more aggregates use the second method.  I have a "library" I am
>> >> >>> > almost
>> >> >>> > ready to open source that makes method 2 really easy, so you can
>> >> >>> > have
>> >> >>> > lots of aggregates.  I'll post to this group when I release it.
>>
>> >> >>> > > And a related question, what happens if there is a failure just
>> >> >>> > > after
>> >> >>> > > the transaction in bullet #2, but right before the named task gets
>> >> >>> > > inserted in bullet #3. In my current implementation I just left
>> >> >>> > > out
>> >> >>> > > the transactional task (bullet point 2c) but I think that causes
>> >> >>> > > me to
>> >> >>> > > lose the eventual consistency.
>>
>> >> >>> > Failure between steps 2 and 3 just means _that_ particular update
>> >> >>> > will
>> >> >>> > not try to kick-off, ie insert, the fan-in (aggregation) task.  But
>> >> >>> > it
>> >> >>> > might have already been inserted by the previous update, or the next
>> >> >>> > update.  However, if nothing else kicks of the fan-in task you will
>> >> >>> > need some periodic "cleanup" method to catch the update and kick of
>> >> >>> > the fan-in task.  Depending on exactly how you implemented step 2
>> >> >>> > you
>> >> >>> > may not need a transactional task.
>>
>> >> >>> > Robert
>>
>> >> >>> > > Thanks!
>>
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