I'm slightly confused. The zoom meeting mentioned in this thread is only open 
to who have registered interest here? If so, can someone please add me?

Dinesh

> On Apr 16, 2019, at 3:29 PM, Anthony Grasso <anthony.gra...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Stefan,
> 
> Thanks for sending the invite out!
> 
> Just wondering what do you think of the idea of having a Zoom meeting that
> anyone can join? This way anyone else interested can join us as well. I can
> set that up if you like?
> 
> Cheers,
> Anthony
> 
> On Tue, 16 Apr 2019 at 21:24, Stefan Miklosovic <
> stefan.mikloso...@instaclustr.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi Anthony,
>> 
>> sounds good. I ve sent you Hangouts meeting invitation privately.
>> 
>> Regards
>> 
>> On Tue, 16 Apr 2019 at 14:53, Anthony Grasso <anthony.gra...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi Stefan,
>>> 
>>> I have been working with Jon on developing the tool set. I can do a Zoom
>>> call tomorrow (Wednesday) at 11am AEST if that works for you? We can go
>>> through all the same information that Jon is going to go through in his
>>> call. Note that I am in the same timezone as you, so if tomorrow morning
>> is
>>> no good we can always do the afternoon.
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> Anthony
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Sat, 13 Apr 2019 at 22:38, Stefan Miklosovic <
>>> stefan.mikloso...@instaclustr.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hi Jon,
>>>> 
>>>> I would like be on that call too but I am off on Thursday.
>>>> 
>>>> I am from Australia so 5pm London time is ours 2am next day so your
>>>> Wednesday morning is my Thursday night. Wednesday early morning so
>>>> your Tuesday morning and London's afternoon would be the best.
>>>> 
>>>> Recording the thing would be definitely helpful too.
>>>> 
>>>> On Sat, 13 Apr 2019 at 07:45, Jon Haddad <j...@jonhaddad.com> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> I'd be more than happy to hop on a call next week to give you both
>>>>> (and anyone else interested) a tour of our dev tools.  Maybe
>> something
>>>>> early morning on my end, which should be your evening, could work?
>>>>> 
>>>>> I can set up a Zoom conference to get everyone acquainted.  We can
>>>>> record and post it for any who can't make it.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I'm thinking Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday morning, 9AM Pacific
>> (5pm
>>>>> London)?  If anyone's interested please reply with what dates work.
>>>>> I'll be sure to post the details back here with the zoom link in case
>>>>> anyone wants to join that didn't get a chance to reply, as well as a
>>>>> link to the recorded call.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Jon
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Fri, Apr 12, 2019 at 10:41 AM Benedict Elliott Smith
>>>>> <bened...@apache.org> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> +1
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I’m also just as excited to see some standardised workloads and
>> test
>>>> bed.  At the moment we’re benefiting from some large contributors doing
>>>> their own proprietary performance testing, which is super valuable and
>>>> something we’ve lacked before.  But I’m also keen to see some more
>>>> representative workloads that are reproducible by anybody in the
>> community
>>>> take shape.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On 12 Apr 2019, at 18:09, Aleksey Yeshchenko
>>>> <alek...@apple.com.INVALID> wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Hey Jon,
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> This sounds exciting and pretty useful, thanks.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Looking forward to using tlp-stress for validating 15066
>> performance.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> We should touch base some time next week to pick a comprehensive
>> set
>>>> of workloads and versions, perhaps?
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> On 12 Apr 2019, at 16:34, Jon Haddad <j...@jonhaddad.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> I don't want to derail the discussion about Stabilizing
>> Internode
>>>>>>>> Messaging, so I'm starting this as a separate thread.  There
>> was a
>>>>>>>> comment that Josh made [1] about doing performance testing with
>> real
>>>>>>>> clusters as well as a lot of microbenchmarks, and I'm 100% in
>>>> support
>>>>>>>> of this.  We've been working on some tooling at TLP for the last
>>>>>>>> several months to make this a lot easier.  One of the goals has
>> been
>>>>>>>> to help improve the 4.0 testing process.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> The first tool we have is tlp-stress [2].  It's designed with a
>> "get
>>>>>>>> started in 5 minutes" mindset.  My goal was to ship a stress
>> tool
>>>> that
>>>>>>>> ships with real workloads out of the box that can be easily
>> tweaked,
>>>>>>>> similar to how fio allows you to design a disk workload and
>> tweak it
>>>>>>>> with paramaters.  Included are stress workloads that stress LWTs
>>>> (two
>>>>>>>> different types), materialized views, counters, time series, and
>>>>>>>> key-value workloads.  Each workload can be modified easily to
>> change
>>>>>>>> compaction strategies, concurrent operations, number of
>> partitions.
>>>>>>>> We can run workloads for a set number of iterations or a custom
>>>>>>>> duration.  We've used this *extensively* at TLP to help our
>>>> customers
>>>>>>>> and most of our blog posts that discuss performance use it as
>> well.
>>>>>>>> It exports data to both a CSV format and auto sets up
>> prometheus for
>>>>>>>> metrics collection / aggregation.  As an example, we were able
>> to
>>>>>>>> determine that the compression length set on the paxos tables
>>>> imposes
>>>>>>>> a significant overhead when using the Locking LWT workload,
>> which
>>>>>>>> simulates locking and unlocking of rows.  See CASSANDRA-15080
>> for
>>>>>>>> details.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> We have documentation [3] on the TLP website.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> The second tool we've been working on is tlp-cluster [4].  This
>> tool
>>>>>>>> is designed to help provision AWS instances for the purposes of
>>>>>>>> testing.  To be clear, I don't expect, or want, this tool to be
>> used
>>>>>>>> for production environments.  It's designed to assist with the
>>>>>>>> Cassandra build process by generating deb packages or re-using
>> the
>>>>>>>> ones that have already been uploaded.  Here's a short list of
>> the
>>>>>>>> things you'll care about:
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> 1. Create instances in AWS for Cassandra using any instance
>> size and
>>>>>>>> number of nodes.  Also create tlp-stress instances and a box for
>>>>>>>> monitoring
>>>>>>>> 2. Use any available build of Cassandra, with a quick option to
>>>> change
>>>>>>>> YAML config.  For example: tlp-stress use 3.11.4 -c
>>>>>>>> concurrent_writes:256
>>>>>>>> 3. Do custom builds just by pointing to a local Cassandra git
>> repo.
>>>>>>>> They can be used the same way as #2.
>>>>>>>> 4. tlp-stress is automatically installed on the stress box.
>>>>>>>> 5. Everything's installed with pure bash.  I considered
>> something
>>>> more
>>>>>>>> complex, but since this is for development only, it turns out
>> the
>>>>>>>> simplest tool possible works well and it means it's easily
>>>>>>>> configurable.  Just drop in your own bash script starting with a
>>>>>>>> number in a XX_script_name.sh format and it gets run.
>>>>>>>> 6. The monitoring box is running Prometheus.  It auto scrapes
>>>>>>>> Cassandra using the Instaclustr metrics library.
>>>>>>>> 7. Grafana is also installed automatically.  There's a couple
>> sample
>>>>>>>> graphs there now.  We plan on having better default graphs soon.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> For the moment it installs java 8 only but that should be easily
>>>>>>>> fixable to use java 11 to test ZGC (it's on my radar).
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Documentation for tlp-cluster is here [5].
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> There's still some things to work out in the tool, and we've
>> been
>>>>>>>> working hard to smooth out the rough edges.  I still haven't
>>>> announced
>>>>>>>> anything WRT tlp-cluster on the TLP blog, because I don't think
>> it's
>>>>>>>> quite ready for public consumption, but I think the folks on
>> this
>>>> list
>>>>>>>> are smart enough to see the value in it even if it has a few
>> warts
>>>>>>>> still.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> I don't consider myself familiar enough with the networking
>> patch to
>>>>>>>> give it a full review, but I am qualified to build tools to help
>>>> test
>>>>>>>> it and go through the testing process myself.  From what I can
>> tell
>>>>>>>> the patch is moving the codebase in a positive direction and I'd
>>>> like
>>>>>>>> to help build confidence in it so we can get it merged in.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> We'll continue to build out and improve the tooling with the
>> goal of
>>>>>>>> making it easier for people to jump into the QA side of things.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Jon
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> [1]
>>>> 
>> https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/742009c8a77999f4b62062509f087b670275f827d0c1895bf839eece@%3Cdev.cassandra.apache.org%3E
>>>>>>>> [2] https://github.com/thelastpickle/tlp-stress
>>>>>>>> [3] http://thelastpickle.com/tlp-stress/
>>>>>>>> [4] https://github.com/thelastpickle/tlp-cluster
>>>>>>>> [5] http://thelastpickle.com/tlp-cluster/
>>>>>>>> 
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