Hi all, Luke & I put together a 1-pager* with lots of diagrams that just goes into some more detail on the runner-independent side input story for the Beam Runner/Fn API.
https://s.apache.org/beam-side-inputs-1-pager Here is the teaser line: "What happens when a user requests to side input a PCollection? What does the user provide? What does the SDK provide? What does the runner provide? What is a PCollectionView?" I hope this helps all runner authors (and other interested folks) and maybe starts some discussions. Please take a look! Kenn *actually 2.5 pages