On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 12:32 PM, Eric <eric.x...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm currently running thrift on all region server nodes. The reasoning is > that you can run jobs on this cluster and these jobs, when using thrift, > can connect to localhost. > The drawback is that I'm running lots of thrift daemons of course which all > need to be monitored. >
Is the drawback that bad? > An alternative would be to create one or more dedicated Thrift / REST nodes > which have high specs (raid, etc.). Possible with a load balancer in front > of them. What would you guys recommend? IIRC, where I work, we run a thrift server beside the client, the http server: i.e. between the two extremes you have above (Correct me if I'm wrong lads). It seems to work fine. St.Ack
