Thanks for the initiative. Big +1. Would be interested to hear if the proposed interfaces still make sense in the face of the new fault-tolerance work that is planned. Stephan/Piotr will know.
On Tue, Sep 8, 2020 at 7:05 PM Seth Wiesman <sjwies...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Devs, > > I'd like to propose an update to how state backends and checkpoint storage > are configured to help users better understand Flink. > > Apache Flink's durability story is a mystery to many users. One of the most > common recurring questions from users comes from not understanding the > relationship between state, state backends, and snapshots. Some of this > confusion can be abated with learning material but the question is so > pervasive that we believe Flink’s user APIs should be better communicate > what different components are responsible for. > > > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLINK/FLIP-142%3A+Disentangle+StateBackends+from+Checkpointing > > > I look forward to a healthy discussion. > > > Seth > -- Konstantin Knauf https://twitter.com/snntrable https://github.com/knaufk
