Re: Dropping support for Flink 1.5/1.6

2019-08-13 Thread Ankur Goenka
Thanks for the headsup. On Tue, Aug 13, 2019 at 3:08 AM Maximilian Michels wrote: > Dear users of the Flink Runner, > > Just a heads-up that we may remove Flink 1.5/1.6 support for future > version of Beam (>=2.16.0): https://jira.apache.org/jira/browse/BEAM-7962 > > Why? We support 1.5 - 1.8 a

Re: Using Beam 2.14.0 + Flink 1.8 with RocksDB state backend - perhaps missing dependency?

2019-08-13 Thread Kaymak, Tobias
Ok I think I have an understanding of what happens - somehow. Flink switched their RocksDB fork in the 1.8 release, this is why the dependency must now be explicitly added to a project. [0] I did both actually, adding this dependency to my projects pom (resulting in beam_pipelines.jar) and to the l

Re: Using Beam 2.14.0 + Flink 1.8 with RocksDB state backend - perhaps missing dependency?

2019-08-13 Thread Kaymak, Tobias
This is a major issue for us as we are no longer able to do a clean-shutdown of the pipelines right now - only cancelling them hard is possible. On Tue, Aug 13, 2019 at 2:46 PM Kaymak, Tobias wrote: > I just rolled out the upgraded and working 1.8.0/2.14.0 combination to > production and noticed

Re: Using Beam 2.14.0 + Flink 1.8 with RocksDB state backend - perhaps missing dependency?

2019-08-13 Thread Kaymak, Tobias
I just rolled out the upgraded and working 1.8.0/2.14.0 combination to production and noticed that when I try to cleanly shutdown a pipeline via the stop button in the web-interface of Flink 1.8.0 I get exactly the same error: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.rocksdb.ColumnFamilyHandle.getDescript

Re: Cost efficient loading of Kafka high throughput event stream to Bigquery

2019-08-13 Thread Ziyad Muhammed
(Better late than never) Thank you Jeff ! I could manage the throughput for Kafka to Avro files on GCS by changing the worker disk type to SSD, disk size of 100 GB was enough. Even with these changes, couldn't manage the throughput for direct writes to Bigquery using FILE_LOADS. Best Ziyad On F

Dropping support for Flink 1.5/1.6

2019-08-13 Thread Maximilian Michels
Dear users of the Flink Runner, Just a heads-up that we may remove Flink 1.5/1.6 support for future version of Beam (>=2.16.0): https://jira.apache.org/jira/browse/BEAM-7962 Why? We support 1.5 - 1.8 and have a 1.9 version in the making. The increased number of supported versions manifests in a m

An update on Python 3 support in Apache Beam

2019-08-13 Thread Valentyn Tymofieiev
Hello everyone, Latest release of Apache Beam (2.14.0) has announced [1] support for Python 3.6, 3.7, and we have made several improvements [2] since 2.11.0 when support of Python 3.5 was first announced. I would like to encourage Beam Python users to start using Beam on Python 3 for the followin