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[jira] [Created] (CASSANDRA-9429) Trace Complete Push Notification
- questioning concept
Adam Holmberg created CASSANDRA-9429:
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Summary: Trace Complete Push Notification - questioning concept
Key: CASSANDRA-9429
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-9429
Project: Cassandra
Issue Type: Bug
Reporter: Adam Holmberg
Priority: Minor
Fix For: 2.2.0 rc1
Follow-on to CASSANDRA-7807, where I opened a discussion without realizing the version was released:
I know I'm late to this ticket, but as I began to integrate this feature for the Python driver, I developed some reservations about its usefulness. I understand the original intent to avoid polling and eventually simplify trace handling. However, it introduces some complexity supporting multiple protocol versions, and I'm not sure it will even avoid the need for polling, due to replication lag.
Here are some of the things required to take advantage:
- Extra registration overhead per connection, or dynamically register on first trace
- Extra book-keeping – trace ID per connection
- New modes of failure (polling is resilient as the cluster)
- Event may arrive before trace data is replicated
- Drivers must still implement polling following event, and for lesser protocol versions
Given the above, I'm not sure it's worth it to implement to save a few polling round-trips, especially when it's only client-initiated traces (which will typically not be in a hot path).
I'm open to discussion on the matter.
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