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Maximilian Michels commented on BEAM-5859:
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I think the first thing we should change is to use the actual user-specified
names of the Beam transforms, instead of those unique names.
> Improve Traceability of Pipeline translation
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> Key: BEAM-5859
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BEAM-5859
> Project: Beam
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: runner-flink
> Reporter: Maximilian Michels
> Priority: Major
> Labels: portability, portability-flink
> Attachments: tfx.png, wordcount.png
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> Users often ask how they can reason about the pipeline translation. The Flink
> UI display a confusingly large graph without any trace of the original Beam
> pipeline:
> WordCount:
> !wordcount.png!
> TFX:
> !tfx.png!
> Some aspects which make understanding these graphs hard:
> * Users don't know how the Runner maps Beam to Flink concepts
> * The UI is awfully slow / hangs when the pipeline is reasonable complex
> * The operator names seem to use {{transform.getUniqueName()}} which doesn't
> generate readable name
> * So called Chaining combines operators into a single operator which makes
> understanding which Beam concept belongs to which Flink concept even harder
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