Ara,

I assume your performance issue is most likely related to the fix Damian
pointed out already.

Couple of follow up comments:

> critical part of our pipeline involves grouping relevant records together

Can you explain this a little better? The abstraction of a task does
group data together already. Furthermore, if you get multiple tasks,
those are independent units with regard to grouping as consecutive tasks
are "connected" via repartitioning steps. Thus, even if we apply the
task assignment as you ask for, I am not sure if this would change
anything? Maybe you can give a small data example what
behavior/data-co-location you need and what Streams provides for you.

> And for hot keys this can lead to sometimes 100s of records to get grouped 
> together

This is independent of task placement -- it a partitioning issue. If you
want to work on that, you can provide a custom `Partioner` for the used
Kafka producers (note, your external Producer writing to your Streams
input topic might already generate "hot" keys, so you might need to use
a custom partitioner there, too)

Also "100s of records" does not sound much to me. Streams can process
multiple hundredths of thousandth records per thread. That is the
reason, why I think that the fix Damian pointed out will most likely fix
your problem.



-Matthias


On 3/27/17 1:56 PM, Ara Ebrahimi wrote:
> Thanks for the response Mathias!
> 
> The reason we want this exact task assignment to happen is that a critical 
> part of our pipeline involves grouping relevant records together (that’s what 
> the aggregate function in the topology is for). And for hot keys this can 
> lead to sometimes 100s of records to get grouped together. Even worse, these 
> records are session bound, we use session windows. Hence we see lots of 
> activity around the store backing the aggregate function and even though we 
> use SSD drives we’re not seeing the kind of performance we want to see. It 
> seems like the aggregate function leads to lots of updates to these hot keys 
> which lead to lots of rocksdb activity.
> 
> Now there are many ways to fix this problem:
> - just don’t aggregate, create an algorithm which is not reliant on 
> grouping/aggregating records. Not what we can do with our tight schedule 
> right now.
> - do grouping/aggregating but employ n instances and rely on uniform 
> distribution of these tasks. This is the easiest solution and what we 
> expected to work but didn’t work as you can tell from this thread. We threw 4 
> instances at it but only 2 got used.
> - tune rocksdb? I tried this actually but it didn’t really help us much, 
> aside from the fact that tuning rocksdb is very tricky.
> - use in-memory store instead? Unfortunately we have to use session windows 
> for this aggregate function and apparently there’s no in-memory session store 
> impl? I tried to create one but soon realized it’s too much work :) I looked 
> at default PartitionAssigner code too, but that ain’t trivial either.
> 
> So I’m a bit hopeless :(
> 
> Ara.
> 
> On Mar 27, 2017, at 1:35 PM, Matthias J. Sax 
> <matth...@confluent.io<mailto:matth...@confluent.io>> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
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> Subject: Re: more uniform task assignment across kafka stream nodes
> Date: March 27, 2017 at 1:35:30 PM PDT
> To: users@kafka.apache.org<mailto:users@kafka.apache.org>
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> 
> 
> Ara,
> 
> thanks for the detailed information.
> 
> If I parse this correctly, both instances run the same number of tasks
> (12 each). That is all Streams promises.
> 
> To come back to your initial question:
> 
> Is there a way to tell kafka streams to uniformly assign partitions across 
> instances? If I have n kafka streams instances running, I want each to handle 
> EXACTLY 1/nth number of partitions. No dynamic task assignment logic. Just 
> dumb 1/n assignment.
> 
> That is exactly what you get: each of you two instances get 24/2 = 12
> tasks assigned. That is dump 1/n assignment, isn't it? So my original
> response was correct.
> 
> However, I now understand better what you are actually meaning by your
> question. Note that Streams does not distinguish "type" of tasks -- it
> only sees 24 tasks and assigns those in a balanced way.
> 
> Thus, currently there is no easy way to get the assignment you want to
> have, except, you implement you own `PartitionAssignor`.
> 
> This is the current implementation for 0.10.2
> https://github.com/apache/kafka/blob/0.10.2/streams/src/main/java/org/apache/kafka/streams/processor/internals/StreamPartitionAssignor.java
> 
> You can, if you wish write your own assignor and set it via
> StreamsConfig. However, be aware that this might be tricky to get right
> and also might have runtime implications with regard to rebalancing and
> state store recovery. We recently improve the current implementation to
> avoid costly task movements:
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-4677
> 
> Thus, I would not recommend to implement an own `PartitionAssignor`.
> 
> 
> However, the root question is, why do you need this exact assignment you
> are looking for in the first place? Why is it "bad" if "types" of tasks
> are not distinguished? I would like to understand your requirement
> better -- it might be worth to improve Streams here.
> 
> 
> -Matthias
> 
> 
> On 3/27/17 12:57 PM, Ara Ebrahimi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> So, I simplified the topology by making sure we have only 1 source topic. Now 
> I have 1 source topic, 8 partitions, 2 instances. And here’s how the topology 
> looks like:
> 
> instance 1:
> 
> KafkaStreams processID: 48b58bc0-f600-4ec8-bc92-8cb3ea081aac
> StreamsThread appId: mar-23-modular
> StreamsThread clientId: mar-23-modular
> StreamsThread threadId: StreamThread-1
> Active tasks:
> StreamsTask taskId: 0_3
> ProcessorTopology:
> KSTREAM-SOURCE-0000000000:
> topics: [activities-avro-or]
> children: [KSTREAM-FILTER-0000000001]
> KSTREAM-FILTER-0000000001:
> children: [KSTREAM-MAP-0000000002]
> KSTREAM-MAP-0000000002:
> children: [KSTREAM-BRANCH-0000000003]
> KSTREAM-BRANCH-0000000003:
> children: [KSTREAM-BRANCHCHILD-0000000004, KSTREAM-BRANCHCHILD-0000000005]
> KSTREAM-BRANCHCHILD-0000000004:
> children: [KSTREAM-MAPVALUES-0000000006]
> KSTREAM-MAPVALUES-0000000006:
> children: [KSTREAM-FLATMAPVALUES-0000000007]
> KSTREAM-FLATMAPVALUES-0000000007:
> children: [KSTREAM-MAP-0000000008]
> KSTREAM-MAP-0000000008:
> children: [KSTREAM-FILTER-0000000011]
> KSTREAM-FILTER-0000000011:
> children: [KSTREAM-SINK-0000000010]
> KSTREAM-SINK-0000000010:
> topic: activities-by-phone-store-or-repartition
> KSTREAM-BRANCHCHILD-0000000005:
> Partitions [activities-avro-or-3]
> Standby tasks:
> 
> StreamsThread appId: mar-23-modular
> StreamsThread clientId: mar-23-modular
> StreamsThread threadId: StreamThread-2
> Active tasks:
> StreamsTask taskId: 1_2
> ProcessorTopology:
> KSTREAM-SOURCE-0000000012:
> topics: [activities-by-phone-store-or-repartition]
> children: [KSTREAM-AGGREGATE-0000000009]
> KSTREAM-AGGREGATE-0000000009:
> states: [activities-by-phone-store-or]
> children: [KTABLE-TOSTREAM-0000000013]
> KTABLE-TOSTREAM-0000000013:
> children: [KSTREAM-FILTER-0000000014]
> KSTREAM-FILTER-0000000014:
> children: [KSTREAM-FILTER-0000000015]
> KSTREAM-FILTER-0000000015:
> children: [KSTREAM-MAP-0000000016]
> KSTREAM-MAP-0000000016:
> children: [KSTREAM-MAP-0000000017]
> KSTREAM-MAP-0000000017:
> children: [KSTREAM-SINK-0000000018]
> KSTREAM-SINK-0000000018:
> topic: ml-features-avro-or
> Partitions [activities-by-phone-store-or-repartition-2]
> Standby tasks:
> 
> StreamsThread appId: mar-23-modular
> StreamsThread clientId: mar-23-modular
> StreamsThread threadId: StreamThread-3
> Active tasks:
> StreamsTask taskId: 1_1
> ProcessorTopology:
> KSTREAM-SOURCE-0000000012:
> topics: [activities-by-phone-store-or-repartition]
> children: [KSTREAM-AGGREGATE-0000000009]
> KSTREAM-AGGREGATE-0000000009:
> states: [activities-by-phone-store-or]
> children: [KTABLE-TOSTREAM-0000000013]
> KTABLE-TOSTREAM-0000000013:
> children: [KSTREAM-FILTER-0000000014]
> KSTREAM-FILTER-0000000014:
> children: [KSTREAM-FILTER-0000000015]
> KSTREAM-FILTER-0000000015:
> children: [KSTREAM-MAP-0000000016]
> KSTREAM-MAP-0000000016:
> children: [KSTREAM-MAP-0000000017]
> KSTREAM-MAP-0000000017:
> children: [KSTREAM-SINK-0000000018]
> KSTREAM-SINK-0000000018:
> topic: ml-features-avro-or
> Partitions [activities-by-phone-store-or-repartition-1]
> StreamsTask taskId: 2_7
> ProcessorTopology:
> KSTREAM-SOURCE-0000000019:
> topics: [ml-features-avro-or]
> Partitions [ml-features-avro-or-7]
> Standby tasks:
> 
> StreamsThread appId: mar-23-modular
> StreamsThread clientId: mar-23-modular
> StreamsThread threadId: StreamThread-4
> Active tasks:
> StreamsTask taskId: 2_0
> ProcessorTopology:
> KSTREAM-SOURCE-0000000019:
> topics: [ml-features-avro-or]
> Partitions [ml-features-avro-or-0]
> StreamsTask taskId: 2_6
> ProcessorTopology:
> KSTREAM-SOURCE-0000000019:
> topics: [ml-features-avro-or]
> Partitions [ml-features-avro-or-6]
> Standby tasks:
> 
> StreamsThread appId: mar-23-modular
> StreamsThread clientId: mar-23-modular
> StreamsThread threadId: StreamThread-5
> Active tasks:
> StreamsTask taskId: 0_0
> ProcessorTopology:
> KSTREAM-SOURCE-0000000000:
> topics: [activities-avro-or]
> children: [KSTREAM-FILTER-0000000001]
> KSTREAM-FILTER-0000000001:
> children: [KSTREAM-MAP-0000000002]
> KSTREAM-MAP-0000000002:
> children: [KSTREAM-BRANCH-0000000003]
> KSTREAM-BRANCH-0000000003:
> children: [KSTREAM-BRANCHCHILD-0000000004, KSTREAM-BRANCHCHILD-0000000005]
> KSTREAM-BRANCHCHILD-0000000004:
> children: [KSTREAM-MAPVALUES-0000000006]
> KSTREAM-MAPVALUES-0000000006:
> children: [KSTREAM-FLATMAPVALUES-0000000007]
> KSTREAM-FLATMAPVALUES-0000000007:
> children: [KSTREAM-MAP-0000000008]
> KSTREAM-MAP-0000000008:
> children: [KSTREAM-FILTER-0000000011]
> KSTREAM-FILTER-0000000011:
> children: [KSTREAM-SINK-0000000010]
> KSTREAM-SINK-0000000010:
> topic: activities-by-phone-store-or-repartition
> KSTREAM-BRANCHCHILD-0000000005:
> Partitions [activities-avro-or-0]
> StreamsTask taskId: 1_6
> ProcessorTopology:
> KSTREAM-SOURCE-0000000012:
> topics: [activities-by-phone-store-or-repartition]
> children: [KSTREAM-AGGREGATE-0000000009]
> KSTREAM-AGGREGATE-0000000009:
> states: [activities-by-phone-store-or]
> children: [KTABLE-TOSTREAM-0000000013]
> KTABLE-TOSTREAM-0000000013:
> children: [KSTREAM-FILTER-0000000014]
> KSTREAM-FILTER-0000000014:
> children: [KSTREAM-FILTER-0000000015]
> KSTREAM-FILTER-0000000015:
> children: [KSTREAM-MAP-0000000016]
> KSTREAM-MAP-0000000016:
> children: [KSTREAM-MAP-0000000017]
> KSTREAM-MAP-0000000017:
> children: [KSTREAM-SINK-0000000018]
> KSTREAM-SINK-0000000018:
> topic: ml-features-avro-or
> Partitions [activities-by-phone-store-or-repartition-6]
> Standby tasks:
> 
> StreamsThread appId: mar-23-modular
> StreamsThread clientId: mar-23-modular
> StreamsThread threadId: StreamThread-6
> Active tasks:
> StreamsTask taskId: 1_0
> ProcessorTopology:
> KSTREAM-SOURCE-0000000012:
> topics: [activities-by-phone-store-or-repartition]
> children: [KSTREAM-AGGREGATE-0000000009]
> KSTREAM-AGGREGATE-0000000009:
> states: [activities-by-phone-store-or]
> children: [KTABLE-TOSTREAM-0000000013]
> KTABLE-TOSTREAM-0000000013:
> children: [KSTREAM-FILTER-0000000014]
> KSTREAM-FILTER-0000000014:
> children: [KSTREAM-FILTER-0000000015]
> KSTREAM-FILTER-0000000015:
> children: [KSTREAM-MAP-0000000016]
> KSTREAM-MAP-0000000016:
> children: [KSTREAM-MAP-0000000017]
> KSTREAM-MAP-0000000017:
> children: [KSTREAM-SINK-0000000018]
> KSTREAM-SINK-0000000018:
> topic: ml-features-avro-or
> Partitions [activities-by-phone-store-or-repartition-0]
> StreamsTask taskId: 0_7
> ProcessorTopology:
> KSTREAM-SOURCE-0000000000:
> topics: [activities-avro-or]
> children: [KSTREAM-FILTER-0000000001]
> KSTREAM-FILTER-0000000001:
> children: [KSTREAM-MAP-0000000002]
> KSTREAM-MAP-0000000002:
> children: [KSTREAM-BRANCH-0000000003]
> KSTREAM-BRANCH-0000000003:
> children: [KSTREAM-BRANCHCHILD-0000000004, KSTREAM-BRANCHCHILD-0000000005]
> KSTREAM-BRANCHCHILD-0000000004:
> children: [KSTREAM-MAPVALUES-0000000006]
> KSTREAM-MAPVALUES-0000000006:
> children: [KSTREAM-FLATMAPVALUES-0000000007]
> KSTREAM-FLATMAPVALUES-0000000007:
> children: [KSTREAM-MAP-0000000008]
> KSTREAM-MAP-0000000008:
> children: [KSTREAM-FILTER-0000000011]
> KSTREAM-FILTER-0000000011:
> children: [KSTREAM-SINK-0000000010]
> KSTREAM-SINK-0000000010:
> topic: activities-by-phone-store-or-repartition
> KSTREAM-BRANCHCHILD-0000000005:
> Partitions [activities-avro-or-7]
> Standby tasks:
> 
> StreamsThread appId: mar-23-modular
> StreamsThread clientId: mar-23-modular
> StreamsThread threadId: StreamThread-7
> Active tasks:
> StreamsTask taskId: 2_4
> ProcessorTopology:
> KSTREAM-SOURCE-0000000019:
> topics: [ml-features-avro-or]
> Partitions [ml-features-avro-or-4]
> Standby tasks:
> 
> StreamsThread appId: mar-23-modular
> StreamsThread clientId: mar-23-modular
> StreamsThread threadId: StreamThread-8
> Active tasks:
> StreamsTask taskId: 1_3
> ProcessorTopology:
> KSTREAM-SOURCE-0000000012:
> topics: [activities-by-phone-store-or-repartition]
> children: [KSTREAM-AGGREGATE-0000000009]
> KSTREAM-AGGREGATE-0000000009:
> states: [activities-by-phone-store-or]
> children: [KTABLE-TOSTREAM-0000000013]
> KTABLE-TOSTREAM-0000000013:
> children: [KSTREAM-FILTER-0000000014]
> KSTREAM-FILTER-0000000014:
> children: [KSTREAM-FILTER-0000000015]
> KSTREAM-FILTER-0000000015:
> children: [KSTREAM-MAP-0000000016]
> KSTREAM-MAP-0000000016:
> children: [KSTREAM-MAP-0000000017]
> KSTREAM-MAP-0000000017:
> children: [KSTREAM-SINK-0000000018]
> KSTREAM-SINK-0000000018:
> topic: ml-features-avro-or
> Partitions [activities-by-phone-store-or-repartition-3]
> Standby tasks:
> 
> 
> instance 2:
> 
> KafkaStreams processID: 092072f8-87be-4989-a94f-0ed544f5ca44
> StreamsThread appId: mar-23-modular
> StreamsThread clientId: mar-23-modular
> StreamsThread threadId: StreamThread-1
> Active tasks:
> StreamsTask taskId: 2_1
> ProcessorTopology:
> KSTREAM-SOURCE-0000000019:
> topics: [ml-features-avro-or]
> Partitions [ml-features-avro-or-1]
> StreamsTask taskId: 2_5
> ProcessorTopology:
> KSTREAM-SOURCE-0000000019:
> topics: [ml-features-avro-or]
> Partitions [ml-features-avro-or-5]
> Standby tasks:
> 
> StreamsThread appId: mar-23-modular
> StreamsThread clientId: mar-23-modular
> StreamsThread threadId: StreamThread-2
> Active tasks:
> StreamsTask taskId: 0_4
> ProcessorTopology:
> KSTREAM-SOURCE-0000000000:
> topics: [activities-avro-or]
> children: [KSTREAM-FILTER-0000000001]
> KSTREAM-FILTER-0000000001:
> children: [KSTREAM-MAP-0000000002]
> KSTREAM-MAP-0000000002:
> children: [KSTREAM-BRANCH-0000000003]
> KSTREAM-BRANCH-0000000003:
> children: [KSTREAM-BRANCHCHILD-0000000004, KSTREAM-BRANCHCHILD-0000000005]
> KSTREAM-BRANCHCHILD-0000000004:
> children: [KSTREAM-MAPVALUES-0000000006]
> KSTREAM-MAPVALUES-0000000006:
> children: [KSTREAM-FLATMAPVALUES-0000000007]
> KSTREAM-FLATMAPVALUES-0000000007:
> children: [KSTREAM-MAP-0000000008]
> KSTREAM-MAP-0000000008:
> children: [KSTREAM-FILTER-0000000011]
> KSTREAM-FILTER-0000000011:
> children: [KSTREAM-SINK-0000000010]
> KSTREAM-SINK-0000000010:
> topic: activities-by-phone-store-or-repartition
> KSTREAM-BRANCHCHILD-0000000005:
> Partitions [activities-avro-or-4]
> Standby tasks:
> 
> StreamsThread appId: mar-23-modular
> StreamsThread clientId: mar-23-modular
> StreamsThread threadId: StreamThread-3
> Active tasks:
> StreamsTask taskId: 2_2
> ProcessorTopology:
> KSTREAM-SOURCE-0000000019:
> topics: [ml-features-avro-or]
> Partitions [ml-features-avro-or-2]
> StreamsTask taskId: 1_7
> ProcessorTopology:
> KSTREAM-SOURCE-0000000012:
> topics: [activities-by-phone-store-or-repartition]
> children: [KSTREAM-AGGREGATE-0000000009]
> KSTREAM-AGGREGATE-0000000009:
> states: [activities-by-phone-store-or]
> children: [KTABLE-TOSTREAM-0000000013]
> KTABLE-TOSTREAM-0000000013:
> children: [KSTREAM-FILTER-0000000014]
> KSTREAM-FILTER-0000000014:
> children: [KSTREAM-FILTER-0000000015]
> KSTREAM-FILTER-0000000015:
> children: [KSTREAM-MAP-0000000016]
> KSTREAM-MAP-0000000016:
> children: [KSTREAM-MAP-0000000017]
> KSTREAM-MAP-0000000017:
> children: [KSTREAM-SINK-0000000018]
> KSTREAM-SINK-0000000018:
> topic: ml-features-avro-or
> Partitions [activities-by-phone-store-or-repartition-7]
> Standby tasks:
> 
> StreamsThread appId: mar-23-modular
> StreamsThread clientId: mar-23-modular
> StreamsThread threadId: StreamThread-4
> Active tasks:
> StreamsTask taskId: 2_3
> ProcessorTopology:
> KSTREAM-SOURCE-0000000019:
> topics: [ml-features-avro-or]
> Partitions [ml-features-avro-or-3]
> Standby tasks:
> 
> StreamsThread appId: mar-23-modular
> StreamsThread clientId: mar-23-modular
> StreamsThread threadId: StreamThread-5
> Active tasks:
> StreamsTask taskId: 0_1
> ProcessorTopology:
> KSTREAM-SOURCE-0000000000:
> topics: [activities-avro-or]
> children: [KSTREAM-FILTER-0000000001]
> KSTREAM-FILTER-0000000001:
> children: [KSTREAM-MAP-0000000002]
> KSTREAM-MAP-0000000002:
> children: [KSTREAM-BRANCH-0000000003]
> KSTREAM-BRANCH-0000000003:
> children: [KSTREAM-BRANCHCHILD-0000000004, KSTREAM-BRANCHCHILD-0000000005]
> KSTREAM-BRANCHCHILD-0000000004:
> children: [KSTREAM-MAPVALUES-0000000006]
> KSTREAM-MAPVALUES-0000000006:
> children: [KSTREAM-FLATMAPVALUES-0000000007]
> KSTREAM-FLATMAPVALUES-0000000007:
> children: [KSTREAM-MAP-0000000008]
> KSTREAM-MAP-0000000008:
> children: [KSTREAM-FILTER-0000000011]
> KSTREAM-FILTER-0000000011:
> children: [KSTREAM-SINK-0000000010]
> KSTREAM-SINK-0000000010:
> topic: activities-by-phone-store-or-repartition
> KSTREAM-BRANCHCHILD-0000000005:
> Partitions [activities-avro-or-1]
> StreamsTask taskId: 1_5
> ProcessorTopology:
> KSTREAM-SOURCE-0000000012:
> topics: [activities-by-phone-store-or-repartition]
> children: [KSTREAM-AGGREGATE-0000000009]
> KSTREAM-AGGREGATE-0000000009:
> states: [activities-by-phone-store-or]
> children: [KTABLE-TOSTREAM-0000000013]
> KTABLE-TOSTREAM-0000000013:
> children: [KSTREAM-FILTER-0000000014]
> KSTREAM-FILTER-0000000014:
> children: [KSTREAM-FILTER-0000000015]
> KSTREAM-FILTER-0000000015:
> children: [KSTREAM-MAP-0000000016]
> KSTREAM-MAP-0000000016:
> children: [KSTREAM-MAP-0000000017]
> KSTREAM-MAP-0000000017:
> children: [KSTREAM-SINK-0000000018]
> KSTREAM-SINK-0000000018:
> topic: ml-features-avro-or
> Partitions [activities-by-phone-store-or-repartition-5]
> Standby tasks:
> 
> StreamsThread appId: mar-23-modular
> StreamsThread clientId: mar-23-modular
> StreamsThread threadId: StreamThread-6
> Active tasks:
> StreamsTask taskId: 1_4
> ProcessorTopology:
> KSTREAM-SOURCE-0000000012:
> topics: [activities-by-phone-store-or-repartition]
> children: [KSTREAM-AGGREGATE-0000000009]
> KSTREAM-AGGREGATE-0000000009:
> states: [activities-by-phone-store-or]
> children: [KTABLE-TOSTREAM-0000000013]
> KTABLE-TOSTREAM-0000000013:
> children: [KSTREAM-FILTER-0000000014]
> KSTREAM-FILTER-0000000014:
> children: [KSTREAM-FILTER-0000000015]
> KSTREAM-FILTER-0000000015:
> children: [KSTREAM-MAP-0000000016]
> KSTREAM-MAP-0000000016:
> children: [KSTREAM-MAP-0000000017]
> KSTREAM-MAP-0000000017:
> children: [KSTREAM-SINK-0000000018]
> KSTREAM-SINK-0000000018:
> topic: ml-features-avro-or
> Partitions [activities-by-phone-store-or-repartition-4]
> Standby tasks:
> 
> StreamsThread appId: mar-23-modular
> StreamsThread clientId: mar-23-modular
> StreamsThread threadId: StreamThread-7
> Active tasks:
> StreamsTask taskId: 0_2
> ProcessorTopology:
> KSTREAM-SOURCE-0000000000:
> topics: [activities-avro-or]
> children: [KSTREAM-FILTER-0000000001]
> KSTREAM-FILTER-0000000001:
> children: [KSTREAM-MAP-0000000002]
> KSTREAM-MAP-0000000002:
> children: [KSTREAM-BRANCH-0000000003]
> KSTREAM-BRANCH-0000000003:
> children: [KSTREAM-BRANCHCHILD-0000000004, KSTREAM-BRANCHCHILD-0000000005]
> KSTREAM-BRANCHCHILD-0000000004:
> children: [KSTREAM-MAPVALUES-0000000006]
> KSTREAM-MAPVALUES-0000000006:
> children: [KSTREAM-FLATMAPVALUES-0000000007]
> KSTREAM-FLATMAPVALUES-0000000007:
> children: [KSTREAM-MAP-0000000008]
> KSTREAM-MAP-0000000008:
> children: [KSTREAM-FILTER-0000000011]
> KSTREAM-FILTER-0000000011:
> children: [KSTREAM-SINK-0000000010]
> KSTREAM-SINK-0000000010:
> topic: activities-by-phone-store-or-repartition
> KSTREAM-BRANCHCHILD-0000000005:
> Partitions [activities-avro-or-2]
> StreamsTask taskId: 0_6
> ProcessorTopology:
> KSTREAM-SOURCE-0000000000:
> topics: [activities-avro-or]
> children: [KSTREAM-FILTER-0000000001]
> KSTREAM-FILTER-0000000001:
> children: [KSTREAM-MAP-0000000002]
> KSTREAM-MAP-0000000002:
> children: [KSTREAM-BRANCH-0000000003]
> KSTREAM-BRANCH-0000000003:
> children: [KSTREAM-BRANCHCHILD-0000000004, KSTREAM-BRANCHCHILD-0000000005]
> KSTREAM-BRANCHCHILD-0000000004:
> children: [KSTREAM-MAPVALUES-0000000006]
> KSTREAM-MAPVALUES-0000000006:
> children: [KSTREAM-FLATMAPVALUES-0000000007]
> KSTREAM-FLATMAPVALUES-0000000007:
> children: [KSTREAM-MAP-0000000008]
> KSTREAM-MAP-0000000008:
> children: [KSTREAM-FILTER-0000000011]
> KSTREAM-FILTER-0000000011:
> children: [KSTREAM-SINK-0000000010]
> KSTREAM-SINK-0000000010:
> topic: activities-by-phone-store-or-repartition
> KSTREAM-BRANCHCHILD-0000000005:
> Partitions [activities-avro-or-6]
> Standby tasks:
> 
> StreamsThread appId: mar-23-modular
> StreamsThread clientId: mar-23-modular
> StreamsThread threadId: StreamThread-8
> Active tasks:
> StreamsTask taskId: 0_5
> ProcessorTopology:
> KSTREAM-SOURCE-0000000000:
> topics: [activities-avro-or]
> children: [KSTREAM-FILTER-0000000001]
> KSTREAM-FILTER-0000000001:
> children: [KSTREAM-MAP-0000000002]
> KSTREAM-MAP-0000000002:
> children: [KSTREAM-BRANCH-0000000003]
> KSTREAM-BRANCH-0000000003:
> children: [KSTREAM-BRANCHCHILD-0000000004, KSTREAM-BRANCHCHILD-0000000005]
> KSTREAM-BRANCHCHILD-0000000004:
> children: [KSTREAM-MAPVALUES-0000000006]
> KSTREAM-MAPVALUES-0000000006:
> children: [KSTREAM-FLATMAPVALUES-0000000007]
> KSTREAM-FLATMAPVALUES-0000000007:
> children: [KSTREAM-MAP-0000000008]
> KSTREAM-MAP-0000000008:
> children: [KSTREAM-FILTER-0000000011]
> KSTREAM-FILTER-0000000011:
> children: [KSTREAM-SINK-0000000010]
> KSTREAM-SINK-0000000010:
> topic: activities-by-phone-store-or-repartition
> KSTREAM-BRANCHCHILD-0000000005:
> Partitions [activities-avro-or-5]
> Standby tasks:
> 
> 
> activities-avro-or is input topic. ml-features-avro-or is output topic. In 
> the middle we have an aggregate (activities-by-phone-store-or-repartition).
> 
> On instance 1 I see 3 tasks for activities-avro-or and on instance 2 I see 5. 
> Bad.
> 
> On instance 1 see 4 tasks for ml-features-avro-or. And 4 on instance 2. Good.
> 
> On instance 1 see 5 tasks for activities-by-phone-store-or-repartition. And 3 
> on instance 2. Bad.
> 
> As I said in terms of offsets for all these partitions I see uniform 
> distribution, so we’re not dealing with a bad key scenario.
> 
> Ara.
> 
> On Mar 25, 2017, at 6:43 PM, Matthias J. Sax 
> <matth...@confluent.io<mailto:matth...@confluent.io>> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
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> From: "Matthias J. Sax" <matth...@confluent.io<mailto:matth...@confluent.io>>
> Subject: Re: more uniform task assignment across kafka stream nodes
> Date: March 25, 2017 at 6:43:12 PM PDT
> To: users@kafka.apache.org<mailto:users@kafka.apache.org>
> Reply-To: <users@kafka.apache.org<mailto:users@kafka.apache.org>>
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> 
> Please share the rest of your topology code (without any UDFs / business
> logic). Otherwise, I cannot give further advice.
> 
> -Matthias
> 
> 
> On 3/25/17 6:08 PM, Ara Ebrahimi wrote:
> Via:
> 
> builder.stream("topic1");
> builder.stream("topic2");
> builder.stream("topic3”);
> 
> These are different kinds of topics consuming different avro objects.
> 
> Ara.
> 
> On Mar 25, 2017, at 6:04 PM, Matthias J. Sax 
> <matth...@confluent.io<mailto:matth...@confluent.io><mailto:matth...@confluent.io>>
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> From: "Matthias J. Sax" 
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> Subject: Re: more uniform task assignment across kafka stream nodes
> Date: March 25, 2017 at 6:04:30 PM PDT
> To: 
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> 
> Ara,
> 
> How do you consume your topics? Via
> 
> builder.stream("topic1", "topic2", "topic3);
> 
> or via
> 
> builder.stream("topic1");
> builder.stream("topic2");
> builder.stream("topic3");
> 
> Both and handled differently with regard to creating tasks (partition to
> task assignment also depends on you downstream code though).
> 
> If this does not help, can you maybe share the structure of processing?
> To dig deeper, we would need to know the topology DAG.
> 
> 
> -Matthias
> 
> 
> On 3/25/17 5:56 PM, Ara Ebrahimi wrote:
> Mathias,
> 
> This apparently happens because we have more than 1 source topic. We have 3 
> source topics in the same application. So it seems like the task assignment 
> algorithm creates topologies not for one specific topic at a time but the 
> total partitions across all source topics consumed in an application 
> instance. Because we have some code dependencies between these 3 source 
> topics we can’t separate them into 3 applications at this time. Hence the 
> reason I want to get the task assignment algorithm basically do a uniform and 
> simple task assignment PER source topic.
> 
> Ara.
> 
> On Mar 25, 2017, at 5:21 PM, Matthias J. Sax 
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> 
> 
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> Subject: Re: more uniform task assignment across kafka stream nodes
> Date: March 25, 2017 at 5:21:47 PM PDT
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> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am wondering why this happens in the first place. Streams,
> load-balanced over all running instances, and each instance should be
> the same number of tasks (and thus partitions) assigned.
> 
> What is the overall assignment? Do you have StandyBy tasks configured?
> What version do you use?
> 
> 
> -Matthias
> 
> 
> On 3/24/17 8:09 PM, Ara Ebrahimi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Is there a way to tell kafka streams to uniformly assign partitions across 
> instances? If I have n kafka streams instances running, I want each to handle 
> EXACTLY 1/nth number of partitions. No dynamic task assignment logic. Just 
> dumb 1/n assignment.
> 
> Here’s our scenario. Lets say we have an “source" topic with 8 partitions. We 
> also have 2 kafka streams instances. Each instances get assigned to handle 4 
> “source" topic partitions. BUT then we do a few maps and an aggregate. So 
> data gets shuffled around. The map function uniformly distributes these 
> across all partitions (I can verify that by looking at the partition 
> offsets). After the map what I notice by looking at the topology is that one 
> kafka streams instance get assigned to handle say 2 aggregate repartition 
> topics and the other one gets assigned 6. Even worse, on bigger clusters (say 
> 4 instances) we see say 2 nodes gets assigned downstream aggregate 
> repartition topics and 2 other nodes assigned NOTHING to handle.
> 
> Ara.
> 
> 
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