This is awesome! With three SDKs the Beam portability vision will have a lot to offer.
Kenn On Fri, Dec 1, 2017 at 10:49 AM, Robert Bradshaw <rober...@google.com> wrote: > Very Exciting! > > The Go language is in a very different point of the design space than > either Java or Python; it's interesting to see how you've explored > making this fit with the Beam model. Thanks for the detailed design > doc. > > +1 to targeting the portability framework directly. Once all runners > are upgraded to use this too it'll just work everywhere. > > On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 8:51 PM, Jean-Baptiste Onofré <j...@nanthrax.net> > wrote: > > Hi Henning, > > > > Thanks for the update, that's great ! > > > > Regards > > JB > > > > On 12/01/2017 12:40 AM, Henning Rohde wrote: > >> > >> Hi everyone, > >> > >> We have been prototyping a Go SDK for Beam for some time and have > >> reached a point, where we think this effort might be of interest to the > >> wider Beam community and would benefit from being developed in a proper > >> feature branch. We have prepared a PR to that end: > >> > >> https://github.com/apache/beam/pull/4200 > >> > >> Please note that the prototype supports batch only, for now, and > includes > >> various examples that run on the Go direct runner. Go would be the > first SDK > >> targeting the portability framework exclusively and our plan is to > extend > >> and benefit from that ecosystem. > >> > >> We have also prepared an RFC document with the initial design, > motivations > >> and tradeoffs made: > >> > >> https://s.apache.org/beam-go-sdk-design-rfc > >> <https://s.apache.org/beam-go-sdk-design-rfc> > >> > >> The challenge is that Go is quite a tricky language for Beam due to > >> various limitations, notably strong typing w/o generics, and so the > >> approaches taken by Java and Python do not readily apply. > >> > >> Of course, neither the prototype nor the design are in any way final -- > >> there are many open questions and we absolutely welcome ideas and > >> contributions. Please let us know if you have any comments or > objections (or > >> would like to help!). > >> > >> Thanks, > >> Henning Rohde, Bill Neubauer, and Robert Burke > > > > > > -- > > Jean-Baptiste Onofré > > jbono...@apache.org > > http://blog.nanthrax.net > > Talend - http://www.talend.com >
