[jira] [Created] (SAMZA-863) Support multi-threading in samza tasks

["Xinyu Liu (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Xinyu Liu created SAMZA-863:
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             Summary: Support multi-threading in samza tasks
                 Key: SAMZA-863
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SAMZA-863
             Project: Samza
          Issue Type: New Feature
            Reporter: Xinyu Liu
            Assignee: Xinyu Liu


Currently a samza container executes the tasks sequentially in a single thread. For example, we have message 1 and 2 in the pending queue for task 1 and task 2. Task 1 will process message 1, and util its completion task 2 can process message 2. If we want to handle more messages in parallel, we have to increase the container count, e.g. from 1 to 2 in the example.

While this solution has been working for many CPU-bound job scenarios, we do see its drawback for IO-bound jobs.In this kind of jobs, the task makes IO/Network requests, i.e, db calls, rest calls or external service RPC calls. These IO calls significantly slow down the task processing. We can increase container number in order to parallelize the IO calls, but it results in low CPU utilization. If we can improve CPU utilization by allocating multiple contains in the same CPU core, it will still cause dramatic memory growth due to the memory being allocated for each container.

To better scale the performance of IO-bound jobs, we are proposing to support multi-threaded processing in samza. The design proposal will come soon.



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