snowplow / snowplow/dataflow-runner
Consider supporting spot instances
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- Dominant language
- Go
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- 19
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- 8
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Description
The situation has been getting better wrt Spark jobs running on spot instances in EMR recently (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/emr/latest/ReleaseGuide/emr-spark-configure.html) so it might be interesting to support them.
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First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reading the AWS EMR Spark configuration guide linked in the issue and tracing how dataflow-runner configures Spark jobs on EMR. Define the required spot-instance settings and how users would request them. The work is done when supported configuration is implemented and a representative Spark job can use it reliably.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- aws, go, spark
- Domain
- cloud, data-engineering
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100