Provided you have all the resources ids ahead of fetching, Beam will spread the fetches to its workers. It will still fetch synchronously but within that worker.
On Tue, Jul 19, 2022 at 5:40 PM Shree Tanna <shree.ta...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm planning to use Apache beam to extract and load part of the ETL > pipeline and run the jobs on Dataflow. I will have to do the REST API > ingestion on our platform. I can opt to make sync API calls from DoFn. With > that pipelines will stall while REST requests are made over the network. > > Is it best practice to run the REST ingestion job on Dataflow? Is there > any best practice I can follow to accomplish this? Just as a reference I'm > adding this > <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50335521/best-practices-in-http-calls-in-cloud-dataflow-java> > StackOverflow thread here too. Also, I notice that Rest I/O transform > <https://beam.apache.org/documentation/io/built-in/> built-in connector > is in progress for Java. > > Let me know if this is the right group to ask this question. I can also > ask d...@beam.apache.org if needed. > -- > Thanks, > Shree >
