In continuation of previous discussions on multi-language support in Ignite, I have been thinking on how to make Ignite available to other languages with minimal effort and think there is a very elegant way to do it.
Even though Ignite tasks are written in Java, they can be used only as a distribution engine for tasks that are written in Python, Ruby, or any other language. For example, Ignite task can receive job coordinates for Python task (task name, class name, etc.) and spawn of jobs. When jobs arrive to remote nodes, they can start another process which in turn will execute a Python, Ruby, or any other program. The way we can make Ignite data available to Python or Ruby jobs is via Memcached API that we already support and that is available on every language out there. Here is a Jira ticket for this (I will cross link it with this discussion): https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IGNITE-859 Thoughts? D.
