Hi all! I've recently opened a design JIRA (SAMZA-849 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SAMZA-849>) for split framework deployment. Basic idea is to allow samza core code to be deployed separately from the user job's code. This is useful in case where samza is used as a service, and bug fixes and version upgrades need to be made independently from the job's deployments.
Please look at the design doc. Comments are welcome! Thanks, Boris.