Congratulations Onur!! On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 9:19 AM, UMESH CHAUDHARY <umesh9...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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) > > > > > > > > > > -- * Regards* * Sandeep Nemuri*
