diff --git a/docs/streaming-kinesis.md b/docs/streaming-kinesis.md index 801c905c88df88d664920359456cbe9e86932645..16ad3222105a2ddbf155b40fd24fe50f08d6d8e4 100644 --- a/docs/streaming-kinesis.md +++ b/docs/streaming-kinesis.md @@ -3,56 +3,57 @@ layout: global title: Spark Streaming Kinesis Receiver --- -### Kinesis -Build notes: -<li>Spark supports a Kinesis Streaming Receiver which is not included in the default build due to licensing restrictions.</li> -<li>_**Note that by embedding this library you will include [ASL](https://aws.amazon.com/asl/)-licensed code in your Spark package**_.</li> -<li>The Spark Kinesis Streaming Receiver source code, examples, tests, and artifacts live in $SPARK_HOME/extras/kinesis-asl.</li> -<li>To build with Kinesis, you must run the maven or sbt builds with -Pkinesis-asl`.</li> -<li>Applications will need to link to the 'spark-streaming-kinesis-asl` artifact.</li> +## Kinesis +###Design +<li>The KinesisReceiver uses the Kinesis Client Library (KCL) provided by Amazon under the Amazon Software License.</li> +<li>The KCL builds on top of the Apache 2.0 licensed AWS Java SDK and provides load-balancing, fault-tolerance, checkpointing through the concept of Workers, Checkpoints, and Shard Leases.</li> +<li>The KCL uses DynamoDB to maintain all state. A DynamoDB table is created in the us-east-1 region (regardless of Kinesis stream region) during KCL initialization for each Kinesis application name.</li> +<li>A single KinesisReceiver can process many shards of a stream by spinning up multiple KinesisRecordProcessor threads.</li> +<li>You never need more KinesisReceivers than the number of shards in your stream as each will spin up at least one KinesisRecordProcessor thread.</li> +<li>Horizontal scaling is achieved by autoscaling additional KinesisReceiver (separate processes) or spinning up new KinesisRecordProcessor threads within each KinesisReceiver - up to the number of current shards for a given stream, of course. Don't forget to autoscale back down!</li> -Kinesis examples notes: -<li>To build the Kinesis examples, you must run the maven or sbt builds with -Pkinesis-asl`.</li> -<li>These examples automatically determine the number of local threads and KinesisReceivers to spin up based on the number of shards for the stream.</li> -<li>KinesisWordCountProducerASL will generate random data to put onto the Kinesis stream for testing.</li> -<li>Checkpointing is disabled (no checkpoint dir is set). The examples as written will not recover from a driver failure.</li> +### Build +<li>Spark supports a Streaming KinesisReceiver, but it is not included in the default build due to Amazon Software Licensing (ASL) restrictions.</li> +<li>To build with the Kinesis Streaming Receiver and supporting ASL-licensed code, you must run the maven or sbt builds with the **-Pkinesis-asl** profile.</li> +<li>All KinesisReceiver-related code, examples, tests, and artifacts live in **$SPARK_HOME/extras/kinesis-asl/**.</li> +<li>Kinesis-based Spark Applications will need to link to the **spark-streaming-kinesis-asl** artifact that is built when **-Pkinesis-asl** is specified.</li> +<li>_**Note that by linking to this library, you will include [ASL](https://aws.amazon.com/asl/)-licensed code in your Spark package**_.</li> -Deployment and runtime notes: -<li>A single KinesisReceiver can process many shards of a stream.</li> -<li>Each shard of a stream is processed by one or more KinesisReceiver's managed by the Kinesis Client Library (KCL) Worker.</li> -<li>You never need more KinesisReceivers than the number of shards in your stream.</li> -<li>You can horizontally scale the receiving by creating more KinesisReceiver/DStreams (up to the number of shards for a given stream)</li> -<li>The Kinesis libraries must be present on all worker nodes, as they will need access to the Kinesis Client Library.</li> -<li>This code uses the DefaultAWSCredentialsProviderChain and searches for credentials in the following order of precedence:<br/> - 1) Environment Variables - AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and AWS_SECRET_KEY<br/> - 2) Java System Properties - aws.accessKeyId and aws.secretKey<br/> - 3) Credential profiles file - default location (~/.aws/credentials) shared by all AWS SDKs<br/> - 4) Instance profile credentials - delivered through the Amazon EC2 metadata service<br/> -</li> -<li>You need to setup a Kinesis stream with 1 or more shards per the following:<br/> - http://docs.aws.amazon.com/kinesis/latest/dev/step-one-create-stream.html</li> -<li>Valid Kinesis endpoint urls can be found here: Valid endpoint urls: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/rande.html#ak_region</li> -<li>When you first start up the KinesisReceiver, the Kinesis Client Library (KCL) needs ~30s to establish connectivity with the AWS Kinesis service, -retrieve any checkpoint data, and negotiate with other KCL's reading from the same stream.</li> -<li>Be careful when changing the app name. Kinesis maintains a mapping table in DynamoDB based on this app name (http://docs.aws.amazon.com/kinesis/latest/dev/kinesis-record-processor-implementation-app.html#kinesis-record-processor-initialization). -Changing the app name could lead to Kinesis errors as only 1 logical application can process a stream. In order to start fresh, -it's always best to delete the DynamoDB table that matches your app name. This DynamoDB table lives in us-east-1 regardless of the Kinesis endpoint URL.</li> +###Example +<li>To build the Kinesis example, you must run the maven or sbt builds with the **-Pkinesis-asl** profile.</li> +<li>You need to setup a Kinesis stream at one of the valid Kinesis endpoints with 1 or more shards per the following: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/kinesis/latest/dev/step-one-create-stream.html</li> +<li>Valid Kinesis endpoints can be found here: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/rande.html#ak_region</li> +<li>When running **locally**, the example automatically determines the number of threads and KinesisReceivers to spin up based on the number of shards configured for the stream. Therefore, **local[n]** is not needed when starting the example as with other streaming examples.</li> +<li>While this example could use a single KinesisReceiver which spins up multiple KinesisRecordProcessor threads to process multiple shards, I wanted to demonstrate unioning multiple KinesisReceivers as a single DStream. (It's a bit confusing in local mode.)</li> +<li>**KinesisWordCountProducerASL** is provided to generate random records into the Kinesis stream for testing.</li> +<li>The example has been configured to immediately replicate incoming stream data to another node by using (StorageLevel.MEMORY_AND_DISK_2) +<li>Spark checkpointing is disabled because the example does not use any stateful or window-based DStream operations such as updateStateByKey and reduceByWindow. If those operations are introduced, you would need to enable checkpointing or risk losing data in the case of a failure.</li> +<li>Kinesis checkpointing is enabled. This means that the example will recover from a Kinesis failure.</li> +<li>The example uses InitialPositionInStream.LATEST strategy to pull from the latest tip of the stream if no Kinesis checkpoint info exists.</li> +<li>In our example, **KinesisWordCount** is the Kinesis application name for both the Scala and Java versions. The use of this application name is described next.</li> -Failure recovery notes: -<li>The combination of Spark Streaming and Kinesis creates 3 different checkpoints as follows:<br/> - 1) RDD data checkpoint (Spark Streaming) - frequency is configurable with DStream.checkpoint(Duration)<br/> - 2) RDD metadata checkpoint (Spark Streaming) - frequency is every DStream batch<br/> - 3) Kinesis checkpointing (Kinesis) - frequency is controlled by the developer calling ICheckpointer.checkpoint() directly<br/> +###Deployment and Runtime +<li>A Kinesis application name must be unique for a given account and region.</li> +<li>A DynamoDB table and CloudWatch namespace are created during KCL initialization using this Kinesis application name. http://docs.aws.amazon.com/kinesis/latest/dev/kinesis-record-processor-implementation-app.html#kinesis-record-processor-initialization</li> +<li>This DynamoDB table lives in the us-east-1 region regardless of the Kinesis endpoint URL.</li> +<li>Changing the app name or stream name could lead to Kinesis errors as only a single logical application can process a single stream.</li> +<li>If you are seeing errors after changing the app name or stream name, it may be necessary to manually delete the DynamoDB table and start from scratch.</li> +<li>The Kinesis libraries must be present on all worker nodes, as they will need access to the KCL.</li> +<li>The KinesisReceiver uses the DefaultAWSCredentialsProviderChain for AWS credentials which searches for credentials in the following order of precedence:</br> +1) Environment Variables - AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and AWS_SECRET_KEY<br/> +2) Java System Properties - aws.accessKeyId and aws.secretKey<br/> +3) Credential profiles file - default location (~/.aws/credentials) shared by all AWS SDKs<br/> +4) Instance profile credentials - delivered through the Amazon EC2 metadata service </li> -<li>Checkpointing too frequently will cause excess load on the AWS checkpoint storage layer and may lead to AWS throttling</li> -<li>Upon startup, a KinesisReceiver will begin processing records with sequence numbers greater than the last checkpoint sequence number recorded per shard.</li> -<li>If no checkpoint info exists, the worker will start either from the oldest record available (InitialPositionInStream.TRIM_HORIZON) -or from the tip/latest (InitialPostitionInStream.LATEST). This is configurable.</li> -<li>When pulling from the stream tip (InitialPositionInStream.LATEST), only new stream data will be picked up after the KinesisReceiver starts.</li> -<li>InitialPositionInStream.LATEST could lead to missed records if data is added to the stream while no KinesisReceivers are running.</li> -<li>In production, you'll want to switch to InitialPositionInStream.TRIM_HORIZON which will read up to 24 hours (Kinesis limit) of previous stream data -depending on the checkpoint frequency.</li> -<li>InitialPositionInStream.TRIM_HORIZON may lead to duplicate processing of records depending on the checkpoint frequency.</li> + +###Fault-Tolerance +<li>The combination of Spark Streaming and Kinesis creates 2 different checkpoints that may occur at different intervals.</li> +<li>Checkpointing too frequently against Kinesis will cause excess load on the AWS checkpoint storage layer and may lead to AWS throttling. The provided example handles this throttling with a random backoff retry strategy.</li> +<li>Upon startup, a KinesisReceiver will begin processing records with sequence numbers greater than the last Kinesis checkpoint sequence number recorded per shard (stored in the DynamoDB table).</li> +<li>If no Kinesis checkpoint info exists, the KinesisReceiver will start either from the oldest record available (InitialPositionInStream.TRIM_HORIZON) or from the latest tip (InitialPostitionInStream.LATEST). This is configurable.</li> +<li>InitialPositionInStream.LATEST could lead to missed records if data is added to the stream while no KinesisReceivers are running (and no checkpoint info is being stored.)</li> +<li>In production, you'll want to switch to InitialPositionInStream.TRIM_HORIZON which will read up to 24 hours (Kinesis limit) of previous stream data.</li> +<li>InitialPositionInStream.TRIM_HORIZON may lead to duplicate processing of records where the impact is dependent on checkpoint frequency.</li> <li>Record processing should be idempotent when possible.</li> -<li>Failed or latent KinesisReceivers will be detected and automatically shutdown/load-balanced by the KCL.</li> -<li>If possible, explicitly shutdown the worker if a failure occurs in order to trigger the final checkpoint.</li> +<li>A failed or latent KinesisRecordProcessor within the KinesisReceiver will be detected and automatically restarted by the KCL.</li> +<li>If possible, the KinesisReceiver should be shutdown cleanly in order to trigger a final checkpoint of all KinesisRecordProcessors to avoid duplicate record processing.</li> \ No newline at end of file