No, the link is correct but storm documentation is quite lackluster and has only common uses and "highlights". Even the code is commented poorly so you have to dig in the actual code quite a lot when you are trying to find answers. On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 7:27 PM B. Candler <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am investigating how to configure a Storm topology so that certain > tasks execute on specific hosts or classes of hosts: for example, a > particular task needs access to a database which is stored on a > locally-connected SSD on a particular machine. > > In the talk from 2012 at https://vimeo.com/40972420 this is raised > (50:24 - 51:30) and in the reply Nathan talks about both Apache Mesos > and a pluggable scheduler for custom policies. > > I can see mesos/storm but I don't see how it can be used to implement a > placement policy. > > From googling I was able to find this: > > https://dcvan24.wordpress.com/2015/04/07/metadata-aware-custom-scheduler-in-storm/ > which looks pretty much like what I want. > > However I couldn't find any authoritative documentation on the scheduler > API by browsing > https://storm.apache.org/doc-index.html > (but I might have missed the right link) > > At > > https://xumingming.sinaapp.com/885/twitter-storm-how-to-develop-a-pluggable-scheduler/ > I found a link to https://github.com/nathanmarz/storm/issues/164 but > that is dead. > > Thanks, > > Brian Candler. > >
