Congratulations Onur!

On Tue, 7 Nov 2017 at 21:44 Jun Rao <j...@confluent.io> wrote:

> Affan,
>
> All known problems in the controller are described in the doc linked from
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-5027.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jun
>
> On Mon, Nov 6, 2017 at 11:00 PM, Affan Syed <as...@an10.io> wrote:
>
> > Congrats Onur,
> >
> > Can you also share the document where all known problems are listed; I am
> > assuming these bugs are still valid for the current stable release.
> >
> > Affan
> >
> > - Affan
> >
> > On Mon, Nov 6, 2017 at 10:24 PM, Jun Rao <j...@confluent.io> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi, everyone,
> > >
> > > The PMC of Apache Kafka is pleased to announce a new Kafka committer
> Onur
> > > Karaman.
> > >
> > > Onur's most significant work is the improvement of Kafka controller,
> > which
> > > is the brain of a Kafka cluster. Over time, we have accumulated quite a
> > few
> > > correctness and performance issues in the controller. There have been
> > > attempts to fix controller issues in isolation, which would make the
> code
> > > base more complicated without a clear path of solving all problems.
> Onur
> > is
> > > the one who took a holistic approach, by first documenting all known
> > > issues, writing down a new design, coming up with a plan to deliver the
> > > changes in phases and executing on it. At this point, Onur has
> completed
> > > the two most important phases: making the controller single threaded
> and
> > > changing the controller to use the async ZK api. The former fixed
> > multiple
> > > deadlocks and race conditions. The latter significantly improved the
> > > performance when there are many partitions. Experimental results show
> > that
> > > Onur's work reduced the controlled shutdown time by a factor of 100
> times
> > > and the controller failover time by a factor of 3 times.
> > >
> > > Congratulations, Onur!
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Jun (on behalf of the Apache Kafka PMC)
> > >
> >
>

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