Hey Isaac
Would love to hear your pain points with Thrift and also can you share your
source for the test clients

-Jake

On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 1:27 AM, Isaac Councill <is...@hioscar.com> wrote:

> tl;dr;
> apibeta seems way faster (and arguably better) than thrift api. What are
> the long term objectives for apibeta?
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I've been working on some aurora integrations, primarily a blackbox
> monitoring tool at present, and was looking for the best way to communicate
> with the scheduler.
>
> For a large read-only example, I wanted to dump the latest scheduler status
> info for all our prod jobs, basically:
>
> for all roles:
>   for all jobs in role:
>     get scheduler status
>
> We have about 120 prod jobs in aurora right now (growing fast). I
> benchmarked 3 strategies against our prod cluster (mean of 5 tries each
> from remote vpn, variance was small in each case):
>
> 1) aurora2 client: ./aurora2 job status cluster/<role>/prod > /dev/null
> 126.0sec
>
> 2) golang thrift API
> 584.3sec (I might be able make a better task query, but still... this is
> for only ~120 calls)
>
> 3) Pure json apibeta client in golang
> 13.4sec (again, might be able to optimize query strategy)
>
> As a side note, getting the golang thrift client to work was a very painful
> and illuminating experience.
>
> I'm inclined to stick with apibeta. It's fast and the documentation is
> great. If api changes become a concern, well after today I'd honestly
> prefer rolling my own binding generator.
>
> Are there plans for /apibeta wrt /api?
>

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