Details
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Improvement
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Status: Resolved
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Not a Priority
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Resolution: Done
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Description
When reading from a source with many parallel partitions, especially when reading lots of historical data (or recovering from downtime and there is a backlog to read), it's quite common for there to develop an event-time skew across those partitions.
When doing event-time windowing – or in fact any event-time driven processing – the event time skew across partitions results directly in increased buffering in Flink and of course the corresponding state/checkpoint size growth.
As the event-time skew and state size grows larger this can have a major effect on application performance and in some cases result in a "death spiral" where the application performance get's worse and worse as the state size grows and grows.
So, one solution to this problem, outside of core changes in Flink itself, seems to be to try to coordinate sources across partitions so that they make progress through event time at roughly the same rate. In fact if there is large skew the idea would be to slow or even stop reading from some partitions with newer data while first reading the partitions with older data. Anyway, to do this we need to share state somehow amongst sub-tasks.
Attachments
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Add source watermark tracking to the JobMaster |
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Resolved | Jamie Grier |
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Expose new global watermark RPC to sources |
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Resolved | Jamie Grier | |||||||||
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Prioritize shard consumers in Kinesis Consumer by event time |
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Resolved | Thomas Weise |
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Event time synchronization in Kafka consumer |
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Resolved | Unassigned |
