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Yuan Mei commented on FLINK-15670:
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[~sewen]
Need to chat a bit for two things:
# Redefine the scope of the problem, at least for 1.11;
# Watermark handling when multiple subtasks writing to the same partition
** This is a common problem for intermediate persistency, not just for Kafka
** The current mechanism relies on downstream `ExecutionVertex` to progress
watermark. However, in the case of a sink, there is no such thing as
`downstream OP`.
** I was thinking if there is a coordinator of all subtasks of a
ExecutionJobVertex then the watermark progress logic can be handled in the
coordinator
** I find there is an interface `OperatorCoordinator` that may be able to be
used in this case. But the only two usages of it is under `test`
> Provide a Kafka Source/Sink pair that aligns Kafka's Partitions and Flink's
> KeyGroups
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> Key: FLINK-15670
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-15670
> Project: Flink
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: API / DataStream, Connectors / Kafka
> Reporter: Stephan Ewen
> Priority: Major
> Labels: usability
> Fix For: 1.11.0
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> This Source/Sink pair would serve two purposes:
> 1. You can read topics that are already partitioned by key and process them
> without partitioning them again (avoid shuffles)
> 2. You can use this to shuffle through Kafka, thereby decomposing the job
> into smaller jobs and independent pipelined regions that fail over
> independently.
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