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Chris Riccomini commented on SAMZA-184:
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[~davidzchen], this sounds like the correct approach to me as well.
> Add thin multi-language support for SamzaContainer
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> Key: SAMZA-184
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SAMZA-184
> Project: Samza
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: container
> Affects Versions: 0.6.0
> Reporter: Chris Riccomini
> Assignee: David Chen
> Labels: project
> Attachments: Test.java
>
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> There has been some interest in supporting languages other than Java (or
> JVM-based languages). We have already opened up SAMZA-18, which proposes
> supporting a C implementation of SamzaContainer.
> A second solution to this problem is to have a StreamTask implementation that
> starts a child process in another language, and acts as a bridge between the
> child process and the java-based Samza APIs. This is the way that both Storm
> [1] and Hadoop work.
> A lot of design decisions need to be fleshed out to support this, but most
> people on the mailing list were very supportive of this approach. [2]
> Things that need to be decided:
> 1. Should we start one subprocess per SamzaContainer, or one subprocess per
> StreamTask?
> 2. How should the parent interact with the subprocess at both the transport
> (stdin/stdout, unix sockets, TCP, HTTP, Thrift, etc) and serialization level
> (protobuf, json, etc)?
> 3. What should the protocol look like? We should ideally support all of the
> operations in StreamTask, InitableTask, WindowableTask, ClosableTask, etc.
> 4. Should the child process receive the messages in batches, or one at a time?
> It'd be good to get a draft proposal up on the Wiki, so we can all discuss
> this and converge on an implementation.
> [1] http://storm.incubator.apache.org/documentation/Multilang-protocol.html
> [2]
> http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-samza-dev/201403.mbox/%3CCAB%2B2NVXX2Fq_61WfvH%2BAfW8ZW7vQbVfTN-JPGU%2Bd7AdZ73oPDQ%40mail.gmail.com%3E
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