I mostly agree with the solution proposed by Asmund. One addition would be
that you can have replicas for each partition and that would give you fault
tolerance. You can use FULL AUTO mode and let Helix manage everything.
Regarding the statement "My understanding of helix is that it isn't trivial
Hi
I'm not that experienced with helix, so wait and see if anyone offers any
corrections.
My understanding of helix is that it isn't trivial to dynamically add a
partition, and you in any case wouldn't want thousands of partitions or
'tasks'.
For a problem like yours, I would define one task
Hi,
First message. I've just discovered Apache Helix, while looking at Pinterest
Rocksplicator. I was wandering if Helix could replace our home-grown
load-balancer.
We have a productive cluster of 12 "large" Java application servers, with a
home-grown Java load-balancer, that acts as a