Will it Scale? The Secrets behind Scaling Stream Processing Applications

Apache Flink is a world class stateful stream processor presents a huge variety of optional features and configuration choices to the user. Determining out the optimal choice for any production environment and use-case be challenging. In this talk, we will explore and discuss the universe of Flink configuration with respect to state and state backends. We will start with a closer look under the hood, at core data structures and algorithms, to build the foundation for understanding the impact of tuning parameters and the costs-benefit-tradeoffs that come with certain features and options. In particular, we will focus on state backend choices (Heap vs RocksDB), tuning checkpointing (incremental checkpoints, ...) and recovery (local recovery), serializers and Apache Flink's new state migration capabilities.

Zhiyong Bai As a high performance and scalable key value database, Zhihu use HBase to provide online data store system along with Mysql and Redis. Zhihu’s platform team had accumulated some experience in technology of container, and this time, based on Kubernetes, we build flexible platform of online HBase system, create multiple logic isolated HBase clusters on the shared physical cluster with fast rapid，and provide customized service for different business needs. Combined with Consul and DNS server, we implement high available access of HBase using client mainly written with Python. This presentation is mainly shared the architecture of online HBase platform in Zhihu and some practical experience in production environment. hbaseconasia2017 hbasecon hbase

We’ll present details about Argus, a time-series monitoring and alerting platform developed at Salesforce to provide insight into the health of infrastructure as an alternative to systems such as Graphite and Seyren.

Partha Saha and CW Chung (Visa) Visa has embarked on an ambitious multi-year redesign of its entire data platform that powers its business. As part of this plan, the Apache Hadoop ecosystem, including HBase, will now become a staple in many of its solutions. Here, we will describe our journey in rolling out a high-availability NoSQL solution based on HBase behind some of our prominent mobile offerings.

Tapad's data pipeline is an elastic combination of technologies (Kafka, Hadoop, Avro, Scalding) that forms a reliable system for analytics, realtime and batch graph-building, and logging. In this talk, I will speak about the creation and evolution of the pipeline, and a concrete example – a day in the life of an event tracking pixel. We'll also talk about common challenges that we've overcome such as integrating different pieces of the system, schema evolution, queuing, and data retention policies.

Kafka Streams is a lightweight stream processing library included in Apache Kafka since version 0.10. It provides a simple yet powerful API for building stream processing applications. The API uses a domain-specific language that allows developers to define stream processing topologies where data from Kafka topics acts as input streams and can be transformed before writing the results to output topics. The library handles common stream processing tasks like state management, windowing, and fault tolerance using Kafka's distributed and fault-tolerant architecture.

RocksDB is the default state store for Kafka Streams. In this talk, we will discuss how to improve single node performance of the state store by tuning RocksDB and how to efficiently identify issues in the setup. We start with a short description of the RocksDB architecture. We discuss how Kafka Streams restores the state stores from Kafka by leveraging RocksDB features for bulk loading of data. We give examples of hand-tuning the RocksDB state stores based on Kafka Streams metrics and RocksDB’s metrics. At the end, we dive into a few RocksDB command line utilities that allow you to debug your setup and dump data from a state store. We illustrate the usage of the utilities with a few real-life use cases. The key takeaway from the session is the ability to understand the internal details of the default state store in Kafka Streams so that engineers can fine-tune their performance for different varieties of workloads and operate the state stores in a more robust manner.

Scylla is a new, open-source NoSQL data store with a novel design optimized for modern hardware, capable of 1.8 million requests per second per node, while providing Apache Cassandra compatibility and scaling properties. While conventional NoSQL databases suffer from latency hiccups, expensive locking, and low throughput due to low processor utilization, the Scylla design is based on a modern shared-nothing approach. Scylla runs multiple engines, one per core, each with its own memory, CPU and multi-queue NIC. The result is a NoSQL database that delivers an order of magnitude more performance, with less performance tuning needed from the administrator. With extra performance to work with, NoSQL projects can have more flexibility to focus on other concerns, such as functionality and time to market. Come for the tech details on what Scylla does under the hood, and leave with some ideas on how to do more with NoSQL, faster. Speaker bio Don Marti is technical marketing manager for ScyllaDB. He has written for Linux Weekly News, Linux Journal, and other publications. He co-founded the Linux consulting firm Electric Lichen. Don is a strategic advisor for Mozilla, and has previously served as president and vice president of the Silicon Valley Linux Users Group and on the program committees for Uselinux, Codecon, and LinuxWorld Conference and Expo.

This document discusses stream processing at scale. It begins with an introduction and agenda. It then discusses scenarios for stream processing like newsfeeds, cybersecurity, and IoT. It presents the canonical stream processing architecture with data buses, real-time and batch processing, and ingestion/serving tiers. The document dives into the essential ingredients for stream processing: scale, reprocessing, accuracy of results, and easy programmability. It provides examples and strategies for each of these essential ingredients to achieve efficient and accurate stream processing at large scales.

Recently, Apache Phoenix has been integrated with Apache (incubator) Omid transaction processing service, to provide ultra-high system throughput with ultra-low latency overhead. Phoenix has been shown to scale beyond 0.5M transactions per second with sub-5ms latency for short transactions on industry-standard hardware. On the other hand, Omid has been extended to support secondary indexes, multi-snapshot SQL queries, and massive-write transactions. These innovative features make Phoenix an excellent choice for translytics applications, which allow converged transaction processing and analytics. We share the story of building the next-gen data tier for advertising platforms at Verizon Media that exploits Phoenix and Omid to support multi-feed real-time ingestion and AI pipelines in one place, and discuss the lessons learned.

Discuss the code and architecture about building realtime streaming application using Spark and Kafka. This demo presents some use cases and patterns of different streaming frameworks.

(Berkeley CS186 guest lecture) Big Data Analytics Systems: What Goes Around Comes Around Introduction to MapReduce, GFS, HDFS, Spark, and differences between "Big Data" and database systems.

Modern search systems provide incredible feature sets, developer-friendly APIs, and low latency indexing and query response. By some measures, these systems operate "at scale," but rarely is that quantified. Customers of Rocana typically look to push ingest rates in excess of 1 million events per second, retaining years of data online for query, with the expectation of sub-second response times for any reasonably sized subset of data. We quickly found that the tradeoffs made by general purpose search systems, while right for common use cases, were less appropriate for these high cardinality, large scale use cases. This session details the architecture, tradeoffs, and interesting implementation decisions made in building a new time series optimized distributed search system using Apache Lucene, Kafka, and HDFS. Data ingestion and durability, index and metadata organization, storage, query scheduling and optimization, and failure modes will be covered. Finally, a summary of the results achieved will be shown.

Introduction to Apache Apex - The next generation native Hadoop platform. This talk will cover details about how Apache Apex can be used as a powerful and versatile platform for big data processing. Common usage of Apache Apex includes big data ingestion, streaming analytics, ETL, fast batch alerts, real-time actions, threat detection, etc. Bio: Pramod Immaneni is Apache Apex PMC member and senior architect at DataTorrent, where he works on Apache Apex and specializes in big data platform and applications. Prior to DataTorrent, he was a co-founder and CTO of Leaf Networks LLC, eventually acquired by Netgear Inc, where he built products in core networking space and was granted patents in peer-to-peer VPNs.

Maheedhar Gunturu presented on connecting Kafka message systems with Scylla. He discussed the benefits of message queues like Kafka including centralized infrastructure, buffering capabilities, and streaming data transformations. He then explained Kafka Connect which provides a standardized framework for building connectors with distributed and scalable connectors. Scylla and Cassandra connectors are available today with a Scylla shard aware connector being developed.

This document discusses transitioning from batch to streaming data processing using Apache Apex. It provides an overview of Apex and how it can be used to build real-time streaming applications. Examples are given of how to build an application that processes Twitter data streams and visualizes results. The document also outlines Apex's capabilities for scalable stream processing, queryable state, and its growing library of connectors and transformations.

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Lambda-less Stream Processing @Scale in LinkedIn The document discusses challenges with stream processing including data accuracy and reprocessing. It proposes a "lambda-less" approach using windowed computations and handling late and out-of-order events to produce eventually correct results. Samza is used in LinkedIn's implementation to store streaming data locally using RocksDB for processing within configurable windows. The approach avoids code duplication compared to traditional lambda architectures while still supporting reprocessing through resetting offsets. Challenges remain in merging online and reprocessed results at large scale.

Presentation from Big Data London 2016 about how to use open source search engines like Lucene, Solr and Elasticsearch for Big Data applications.

Batch and Streaming Data Processing and Vizualize 300Tb in 5 Seconds meetup on April 18th, 2016 (http://www.meetup.com/Big-things-are-happening-here/events/229532500)

This document summarizes benchmarking tests of Apache Samza's performance processing streaming data. The tests measured Samza's performance on different processing tasks: message passing achieved 1.2 million messages per second per node; key counting with an in-memory store achieved 1 million messages per second; key counting with RocksDB storage was 443k messages per second; and key counting with RocksDB storage and changelog was 300k messages per second. The benchmarks provide a foundation for developing a capacity model for Samza's performance on high-volume streaming data applications.

Spark and GraphX in the Netflix Recommender System: We at Netflix strive to deliver maximum enjoyment and entertainment to our millions of members across the world. We do so by having great content and by constantly innovating on our product. A key strategy to optimize both is to follow a data-driven method. Data allows us to find optimal approaches to applications such as content buying or our renowned personalization algorithms. But, in order to learn from this data, we need to be smart about the algorithms we use, how we apply them, and how we can scale them to our volume of data (over 50 million members and 5 billion hours streamed over three months). In this talk we describe how Spark and GraphX can be leveraged to address some of our scale challenges. In particular, we share insights and lessons learned on how to run large probabilistic clustering and graph diffusion algorithms on top of GraphX, making it possible to apply them at Netflix scale.

This document discusses high performance spatial-temporal trajectory analysis using Spark. It covers the background of analyzing mobile signaling data to enable smarter urban planning. The solution architecture includes data sources, distributed file system, computation engine, and visualization. Technical designs address the big data platform, data governance, algorithm models, and Spark spatial computing. Example scenarios are presented for population heatmaps, commute routes, and office-residence imbalance analysis.

Developing Realtime Data Pipelines With Apache Kafka. Apache Kafka is publish-subscribe messaging rethought as a distributed commit log. A single Kafka broker can handle hundreds of megabytes of reads and writes per second from thousands of clients. Kafka is designed to allow a single cluster to serve as the central data backbone for a large organization. It can be elastically and transparently expanded without downtime. Data streams are partitioned and spread over a cluster of machines to allow data streams larger than the capability of any single machine and to allow clusters of co-ordinated consumers. Messages are persisted on disk and replicated within the cluster to prevent data loss. Each broker can handle terabytes of messages without performance impact. Kafka has a modern cluster-centric design that offers strong durability and fault-tolerance guarantees.

CQRS (Command Query Responsibility Segregation) is a pattern, which separates the process of querying and updating data. As a query only returns data without any side effects, a command is designed to change data. CQRS is often combined with Event Sourcing. This is an architecture in which all changes to an application state are stored as a sequence of events. Because of its great capability to store time series data Cassandra is the perfect fit for implementing the event store. But there a still a lot of open questions: What about the data modeling? What techniques will be used to process and store data in the Cassandra database? How to access the current state of the application, without replaying every event? And what about failure handling? In this talk, I will give a brief introduction to CQRS and the Event Sourcing pattern and will then answer the questions above using a real life example of a data store for customer data.

http://flink-forward.org/kb_sessions/dynamic-scaling-how-apache-flink-adapts-to-changing-workloads/ Modern stream processing engines not only have to process millions of events per second at sub-second latency but also have to cope with constantly changing workloads. Due to the dynamic nature of stream applications where the number of incoming events can strongly vary with time, systems cannot reliably predetermine the amount of required resources. In order to meet guaranteed SLAs as well as utilizing system resources as efficiently as possible, frameworks like Apache Flink have to adapt their resource consumption dynamically. In this talk, we will take a look under the hood and explain how Flink scales stateful application in and out. Starting with the concept of key groups and partionable state, we will cover ways to detect bottlenecks in streaming jobs and discuss efficient strategies how to scale out operators with minimal down-time.

Elastic scaling allows a data stream processing system to react to a dynamically changing query or event workload by automatically scaling in or out. Thereby, both unpredictable load peaks as well as underload situations can be handled. However, each scaling decision comes with a latency penalty due to the required operator movements. Therefore, in practice an elastic system might be able to improve the system utilization, however it is not able to provide latency guarantees defined by a service level agreement (SLA). In this paper we introduce an elastic scaling system, which optimizes the utilization under certain latency constraints defined by a SLA. Specifically, we present a model, which estimates the latency spike created by a set of operator movements. We use this model to build a latency-aware elastic operator placement algorithm, which minimizes the number of latency violations. We show that our solution is able to reduce the 90th percentile of the end to end latency by up to 30% and reduce the number of latency violations by 50%. The achieved system utilization for our approach is comparable to a scaling strategy, which does not use latency as optimization target.

An elastic data stream processing system is able to handle changes in workload by dynamically scaling out and scaling in. This allows for handling of unexpected load spikes without the need for constant overprovisioning. One of the major challenges for an elastic system is to find the right point in time to scale in or to scale out. Finding such a point is difficult as it depends on constantly changing workload and system characteristics. In this paper we investigate the application of different auto-scaling techniques for solving this problem. Specifically: (1) we formulate basic requirements for an autoscaling technique used in an elastic data stream processing system, (2) we use the formulated requirements to select the best auto scaling techniques, and (3) we perform evaluation of the selected auto scaling techniques using the real world data. Our experiments show that the auto scaling techniques used in existing elastic data stream processing systems are performing worse than the strategies used in our work.

A major challenge for cloud-based systems is to be fault tolerant so as to cope with an increasing probability of faults in cloud environments. This is especially true for in-memory computing solutions like data stream processing systems, where a single host failure might result in an unrecoverable information loss. In state of the art data streaming systems either active replication or upstream backup are applied to ensure fault tolerance, which have a high resource overhead or a high recovery time respectively. This paper combines these two fault tolerance mechanisms in one system to minimize the number of violations of a user-defined recovery time threshold and to reduce the overall resource consumption compared to active replication. The system switches for individual operators between both replication techniques dynamically based on the current workload characteristics. Our approach is implemented as an extension of an elastic data stream processing engine, which is able to reduce the number of used hosts due to the smaller replication overhead. Based on a real-world evaluation we show that our system is able to reduce the resource usage by up to 19% compared to an active replication scheme.

This lecture covers the principles and the architectures of modern cluster schedulers, including Apache Mesos, Apache Yarn, Google Borg and K8s, and some notes on Omega

We believe that security *IS* a shared responsibility, - when we give developers the power to create infrastructure, security became their responsibility, too. During this meetup, we'd like to share our experience with implementing security best practices, to be implemented directly by development teams to build more robust and secure cloud environments. Make cloud security your team's sport!

This document provides an overview of stream processing with Apache Flink. It discusses the rise of stream processing and how it enables low-latency applications and real-time analysis. It then describes Flink's stream processing capabilities, including pipelining of data, fault tolerance through checkpointing and recovery, and integration with batch processing. The document also summarizes Flink's programming model, state management, and roadmap for further development.

NCache is an in-memory caching solution by Alachisoft that improves application scalability and performance by reducing database trips and storing frequently accessed data in memory to provide better performance. It is also used to cache session data in web farms.

Realtime infrastructure powers critical pieces of Uber. This talk will discuss the architecture, technical challenges, learnings and how a blend of open source infrastructure (Apache Kafka/Flink/Pinot) and in-house technologies have helped Uber scale and enabled SQL to power realtime decision making for city ops, data scientists, data analysts and engineers.

The traditional lambda architecture has been a popular solution for joining offline batch operations with real time operations. This setup incurs a lot of developer and operational overhead since it involves maintaining code that produces the same result in two, potentially different distributed systems. In order to alleviate these problems, we need a unified framework for processing and building data pipelines across batch and stream data sources. Based on our experiences running and developing Apache Samza at LinkedIn, we have enhanced the framework to support: a) Pluggable data sources and sinks; b) A deployment model supporting different execution environments such as Yarn or VMs; c) A unified processing API for developers to work seamlessly with batch and stream data. In this talk, we will cover how these design choices in Apache Samza help tackle the overhead of lambda architecture. We will use some real production use-cases to elaborate how LinkedIn leverages Apache Samza to build unified data processing pipelines. Speaker Navina Ramesh, Sr. Software Engineer, LinkedIn

This document provides an overview of Apache Kafka including its main components, architecture, and ecosystem. It describes how LinkedIn used Kafka to solve their data pipeline problem by decoupling systems and allowing for horizontal scaling. The key elements of Kafka are producers that publish data to topics, the Kafka cluster that stores streams of records in a distributed, replicated commit log, and consumers that subscribe to topics. Kafka Connect and the Schema Registry are also introduced as part of the Kafka ecosystem.

Discover how to avoid common pitfalls when shifting to an event-driven architecture (EDA) in order to boost system recovery and scalability. We cover Kafka Schema Registry, in-broker transformations, event sourcing, and more.

Hadoop is becoming a standard platform for building critical financial applications such as risk reporting, trading and fraud detection. These applications require high level of SLAs (service-level agreement) in terms of RPO (Recovery Point Objective) and RTO (Recovery Time Objective). To achieve these SLAs, organizations need to build a disaster recovery plan that cover several layers ranging from the infrastructure to the clients going through the platform and the applications. In this talk, we will present the different architecture blueprints for disaster recovery as well as their corresponding SLA objectives. Then, we will focus on the stretch cluster solution that Crédit Agricole CIB is using in production. We will discuss the solution’s advantages, drawbacks and the impact of this approach on the global architecture. Finally, we will explain in detail how to configure and deploy this solution and how to integrate each layer (storage layer, processing layer...) into the architecture.

This document discusses high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) architectures for SAP HANA on IBM Power Systems. It provides an overview of typical HA/DR configurations including host auto-failover, SAP HANA system replication in performance-optimized and cost-optimized modes, and the roles of cluster managers like Pacemaker in automating failover. Key aspects covered are recovery point objectives (RPOs), recovery time objectives (RTOs), synchronous vs. asynchronous replication modes, and multi-tier DR landscapes.

This document discusses an adaptive and self-healing framework for real-time data ingestion across geographically distributed data centers. It describes the problem domain of ingesting 15 billion events per day across multiple schemas and data types from various sources. The proposed architecture includes an ingestion layer using technologies like Storm, Kafka and HDFS to ingest, transform and replicate streaming and batch data. It also includes a serving layer using Aerospike to provide low-latency aggregated user views. Issues encountered with technologies like Storm and Kafka are discussed, as well as features still under development.

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Stream data processing is becoming increasingly important to support business needs for faster time to insight and action with growing volume of information from more sources. Apache Apex (http://apex.apache.org/) is a unified big data in motion processing platform for the Apache Hadoop ecosystem. Apex supports demanding use cases with: * Architecture for high throughput, low latency and exactly-once processing semantics. * Comprehensive library of building blocks including connectors for Kafka, Files, Cassandra, HBase and many more * Java based with unobtrusive API to build real-time and batch applications and implement custom business logic. * Advanced engine features for auto-scaling, dynamic changes, compute locality. Apex was developed since 2012 and is used in production in various industries like online advertising, Internet of Things (IoT) and financial services.

This talk shares experiences from deploying and tuning Flink steam processing applications for very large scale. We share lessons learned from users, contributors, and our own experiments about running demanding streaming jobs at scale. The talk will explain what aspects currently render a job as particularly demanding, show how to configure and tune a large scale Flink job, and outline what the Flink community is working on to make the out-of-the-box for experience as smooth as possible. We will, for example, dive into - analyzing and tuning checkpointing - selecting and configuring state backends - understanding common bottlenecks - understanding and configuring network parameters

This document provides an overview of Apache Flink, an open-source stream processing framework. It discusses the rise of stream processing and how Flink enables low-latency applications through features like pipelining, operator state, fault tolerance using distributed snapshots, and integration with batch processing. The document also outlines Flink's roadmap, which includes graduating its DataStream API, fully managing windowing and state, and unifying batch and stream processing.

This document provides an overview of Apache Flink, an open-source platform for distributed stream and batch data processing. Flink allows for unified batch and stream processing with a simple yet powerful programming model. It features native stream processing, exactly-once fault tolerance based on consistent snapshots, and high performance optimized for streaming workloads. The document outlines Flink's APIs, state management, fault tolerance approach, and roadmap for continued improvements in 2015.

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The document discusses troubleshooting performance issues for SQL Server. It begins with an introduction and case study on the MS Society of Canada's website. It then discusses optimizing the environment, using Performance Monitor (PerfMon) to monitor performance, and concludes with recommendations to address issues like high CPU usage, slow disk speeds, and insufficient memory.

In our fast moving world it becomes more and more important for companies to gain near real-time insights from their data to make faster decisions. These insights do not only provide a competitve edge over ones rivals but also enable a company to create completely new services and products. Amongst others, predictive user interfaces and online recommendation can be implemented when being able to process large amounts of data in real-time. Apache Flink, one of the most advanced open source distributed stream processing platforms, allows you to extract business intelligence from your data in near real-time. With Apache Flink it is possible to process billions of messages with milliseconds latency. Moreover, its expressive APIs allow you to quickly solve your problems, ranging from classical analytical workloads to distributed event-driven applications. In this talk, I will introduce Apache Flink and explain how it enables users to develop distributed applications and process analytical workloads alike. Starting with Flink’s basic concepts of fault-tolerance, statefulness and event-time aware processing, we will take a look at the different APIs and what they allow us to do. The talk will be concluded by demonstrating how we can use Flink’s higher level abstractions such as FlinkCEP and StreamSQL to do declarative stream processing.

This document discusses Apache Apex, an open source stream processing framework. It provides an overview of stream data processing and common use cases. It then describes key Apache Apex capabilities like in-memory distributed processing, scalability, fault tolerance, and state management. The document also highlights several customer use cases from companies like PubMatic, GE, and Silver Spring Networks that use Apache Apex for real-time analytics on data from sources like IoT sensors, ad networks, and smart grids.

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