Github user mmiklavc commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/metron/pull/1252#discussion_r230864542
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@@ -76,6 +62,19 @@ intel bolt, the configurations will be taken from the
respective join bolt
parallelism. When proper ambari support for this is added, we will add
its own property.
+### Split-Join Enrichment Topology
+
+The now-deprecated split/join topology is also available and performs
enrichments in parallel.
+This poses some issues in terms of ease of tuning and reasoning about
performance.
+
+
+
+#### Using It
+
+In order to use the older, deprecated topology, you will need to
+* Edit `$METRON_HOME/bin/start_enrichment_topology.sh` and adjust it to
use `remote-splitjoin.yaml` instead of `remote-unified.yaml`
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This actually wasn't net-new, it's the way we currently expose the choice.
I would prefer to keep it as-is and manual because the desire is NOT to have
customers use the deprecated topology.
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