Re: About the Gauge metric API

2018-04-06 Thread Bill Neubauer
Thanks for unraveling those themes, Pablo! 1. Seems reasonable in light of behaviors metrics backends support. 2. Those same backends support histogramming of data, so having integer types is very useful. 3. I believe that is the case, for the reasons I mentioned earlier, Gauges should only clobbe

Re: About the Gauge metric API

2018-04-06 Thread Bill Neubauer
A gauge API is only useful if there's a correlation to a distributed worker, because "clobber" is not a useful aggregation method. There's no useful correlation of that signal to anything actionable. Ben's already noted this point that metrics backends do this, but it seems that if gauge is to be a

Re: The Go SDK got accidentally merged - options to deal with the pain

2018-03-06 Thread Bill Neubauer
I'm reading "The next time..." as the Go developers needs to take some special precautions the next time they merge from master to go-sdk? If that's correct, that's more than reasonable, especially in light of this current breakage. Please do whatever's necessary to make things right again. If the

Re: Go SDK in the works?

2017-05-25 Thread Bill Neubauer
Hi Robin, There are a few of us hacking on it. We have a preliminary implementation and hope to have something to share soon. Bill On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 2:07 PM, Robin Bartholdson < robin.barthold...@formulate.se> wrote: > Curious about https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BEAM-2083 > Devel