I've a Structured Streaming program running on GCP Dataproc cluster which reads data from Kafka every 10 mins, and then does processing. This is a multi-tenant system i.e. the program will read data from multiple customers.
In my current code, i'm looping over the customers passing it to the 3 programs - P1, P2, P3 P1, P2, P3 are classes where the bulk of the processing happens, and the data is pushed back to kafka
def convertToDictForEachBatch(df, batchId):
# code to change syslog to required format - this is not included here since it is not relevant to the issue
# loop over the customers, and call the classes P1, P2, P3 for each customer
# TBD : run the processes in aynchronous fashion/concurrently
for cust in hm.values():
# tdict_ap - has data specific to P2, filter code is not shown
p1 = P1(tdict_ap, spark, False, cust)
# tdict_ap - has data specific to P2, filter code is not shown
p2 = P2(tdict_ap, spark, False, cust)
# tdict_ap - has data specific to P3, filter code is not shown
p3 = P3(tdict_ap, spark, False, cust)
# df_stream = data read from Kafka, this calls function convertToDictForEachBatch
query = df_stream.selectExpr("CAST(value AS STRING)", "timestamp", "topic").writeStream \
.outputMode("append") \
.trigger(processingTime='10 minutes') \
.option("truncate", "false") \
.option("checkpointLocation", checkpoint) \
.foreachBatch(convertToDictForEachBatch) \
.start()
In the above code, the processing is sequential .. I would like to make the processing concurrent/asynchronous to the extent possible
Couple of options I'm considering :
Using asyncio
- from what i understand, this might improve the performance since for each customer - it might allow processing in 3 classes in asynchronous fashion
use repartition data dataframe by 'customer' + groupBy - this should allow concurrency for the multiple customers (in a specific class) if there are sufficient executors
Here is the same code for this, I think this might need to be done in each of the 3 classes P1, P2, P3
window = Window.partitionBy('cust')
all_DF = all_DF.repartition('cust').cache()
results = (
all_DF
.groupBy('cust')
.apply(<function>)
)
Pls advise on what is the best way to achieve this ?
tia!