Hi This is amazing. Having used Java ask for over two years now and recently transitioned to writing go for a bunch of microservices, I really like the simplicity. I used gleam to do data processing and loved it. That said I would much rather prefer the beam sdk paradigms though.
Ankur On Fri, Dec 1, 2017 at 14:39 Kenneth Knowles <k...@google.com> wrote: > 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 >> > > -- Sent from lazarus
