Re: [PROPOSAL] New sdk languages

2016-03-31 Thread Neville Li
I read some technical docs and have a few more questions. - Scio is more of a thin Scala wrapper/DSL on top of Java SDK to offer FP style API similar to Spark/Scalding and a few other features often found in other Scala libraries, e.g. REPL, macro type providers, Futures. How do those fit in the b

Re: New user - getting started

2016-03-31 Thread Prashant Kommireddi
Nevermind, I just found another post recently answered along these lines. On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 3:01 PM, Prashant Kommireddi < prkommire...@apache.org> wrote: > I've recently started reading up a bit on this project and was looking > through the "How to Contribute" page > http://beam.incubator.

New user - getting started

2016-03-31 Thread Prashant Kommireddi
I've recently started reading up a bit on this project and was looking through the "How to Contribute" page http://beam.incubator.apache.org/contribution-guide/ Are there any getting started docs I could refer to start playing with beam? And may be a few trivial JIRAs I could look into? Would love

Re: [PROPOSAL] Writing More Expressive Beam Tests

2016-03-31 Thread Ben Chambers
On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 4:29 PM Robert Bradshaw wrote: > On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 4:28 PM, Ben Chambers > wrote: > > My only concern is that in the example, you first need to declare all the > > inputs, then the pipeline to be tested, then all the outputs. This can > lead > > to tests that are ha

Re: [jira] [Commented] (BEAM-68) Support for limiting parallelism of a step

2016-03-31 Thread Lukasz Cwik
I believe you can guarantee the number of shards (with a more complex set of transforms). You just need to figure out which shards are empty, and force the write operation. We can have two implementations of write, one which doesn't write when zero elements (the default), and one which does go thro