我们很高兴宣布Storm 0.9.0已经成功发布,你可以从the downloads page下载. 本次发布对茁壮成长的Storm来说是一次巨大的进步。
我们追加了一些新特性,你会在下面看到详细的介绍, 此外这次发布的另一个着重点是修复了大量跟稳定性相关的 bug. 虽然很多用户已经在自己的环境中把0.9.x版本的Storm成功运行起来,但我们不保证那些版本的稳定性。0.9.0是目前最稳定的版本,我们强烈推荐各位使用,特别是0.8.x的用户们。
特性1:Netty做消息传输层
第一个重大的特点是新的传输层。我们引入了使用纯Java语言编写的Netty作为我们的传输层,这个工作是由好基友Yahoo! Engineering完成的。关于Storm的核心消息传输层能以插拔形式更换这一点,我想大家都知道了,只可惜原来只有ZeroMQ,而现在Storm提供了两种消息传输层实现,分别是原来的ZeroMQ和新的Netty。
在以前的版本里,Storm只能依赖ZeroMQ做消息的传输,但它其实并不好,我也不晓得Nathan为什么头脑热使用了ZeroMQ。为什么ZeroMQ不好呢?这是由于:
1.ZeroMQ是一个本地化的消息库,它过度依赖操作系统环境;
2.安装起来比较麻烦;
3.ZeroMQ的稳定性在不同版本之间差异巨大,并且目前只有2.1.7版本的ZeroMQ能与Storm协调的工作。
我们引入Netty的原因是:
1.平台隔离,Netty是一个纯Java实现的消息队列,可以帮助Storm实现更好的跨平台特性,同时基于JVM的实现可以让我们对消息有更好的控制;
2.高性能,Netty的性能要比ZeroMQ快两倍左右,这里有一篇文章this blog post 专门比较了ZeroMQ和Netty的性能(待翻译)。
3. 安全性认证,使得我们将来要做的 worker 进程之间的认证授权机制成为可能。
如果要在Storm里使用Netty做传输层,只需要简单的把下面的内容加入到storm.yaml中,并根据你的实际情况调整参数即可:
storm.messaging.transport: "backtype.storm.messaging.netty.Context"
storm.messaging.netty.server_worker_threads: 1
storm.messaging.netty.client_worker_threads: 1
storm.messaging.netty.buffer_size: 5242880
storm.messaging.netty.max_retries: 100
storm.messaging.netty.max_wait_ms: 1000
storm.messaging.netty.min_wait_ms: 100
如果你不喜欢ZeroMQ或者Netty,你也可以通过实现backtype.storm.messaging.IContext
interface来用自己的消息传输层,但是要满足几个条件,这里就不多说了。
特性2:日志查看UI
新版本的Storm增加了一个很给力的特性用来调试和监视topology——logviewer进程。在早期的版本里,查看Worker节点的日志决定于Worker节点的位置(host/port),典型的是通过Storm UI,然后用ssh连接那个主机查看该主机上worker的日志文件。在最新的日志查看机制里,现在可以很容易的去访问一个指定worker节点的日志,你只需要在浏览器中的StormUI里点击worker的port就可以了。
新的logviewer进程与supervisor是相对独立的进程,如果要在新的Storm里启动它,你只需要在集群的supervisor节点执行如下命令:
$ storm logviewer
特性3:跨平台
在以前的版本里,如果想在Windows平台上运行Storm,你需要安装ZeroMQ,修改Storm的源码,追加一些Windows平台特定的脚本。而在新的版本里,因为用netty替换了ZeroMQ,由于netty用纯java实现,因此使得Storm具有更好的跨平台特性,现在要在Windows上运行Storm比以前容易很多。
特性4:安全
安全,认证,授权这些一直是非常重要的领域,我们在后续会持续追加相关的特性,Storm0.9.0提供了API用来实现可插拔的Tuple序列化,并且有一个基于BlowFish的加密算法来用于加密Tuple的实现。
特性5:API 兼容性和升级
对大多数的Storm开发者来说,更新到0.9.0只是简单的更新它的依赖包而已,Storm的核心API自从0.8.2以来变更很少。而在生产环境中的开发运维方面,如果要更新最新的Storm,最好在升级之前把已经存在的状态信息给清空,比如ZooKeeper上的信息和storm.local.dir配置的信息。
特性6:日志方式变更
另一个非常大的变化是对日志的改变,Storm里面大量使用slf4j 的API,而有些Storm的依赖库或Storm的使用者则依赖于log4j的API。所以现在Storm改为依赖于log4j-over-slf4j,它可以在log4j与slf4j之间架起一座桥梁。这些改变会涉及到已经使用log4jAPI的拓扑和拓扑组件。总之,如果可以的话,还是尽可能的使用slf4j的API来做日志记录吧!
鸣谢
最后特别感谢那些为Storm的贡献的小伙伴们,不管是贡献代码、文档、提BUG或者在邮件列表里为其他人提供帮助的人,你们都功不可没,Nathan爱你们,Storm小组爱你们。
0.9.0变更日志
- Update build configuration to force compatibility with Java 1.6
- Fixed a netty client issue where sleep times for reconnection could be negative (thanks brndnmtthws)
- Fixed an issue that would cause storm-netty unit tests to fail
- Added configuration to limit ShellBolt internal _pendingWrites queue length (thanks xiaokang)
- Fixed a a netty client issue where sleep times for reconnection could be negative (thanks brndnmtthws)
- Fixed a display issue with system stats in Storm UI (thanks d2r)
- Nimbus now does worker heartbeat timeout checks as soon as heartbeats are updated (thanks d2r)
- The logviewer now determines log file location by examining the logback configuration (thanks strongh)
- Allow tick tuples to work with the system bolt (thanks xumingming)
- Add default configuration values for the netty transport and the ability to configure the number of worker threads (thanks revans2)
- Added timeout to unit tests to prevent a situation where tests would hang indefinitely (thanks d2r)
- Fixed an issue in the system bolt where local mode would not be detected accurately (thanks miofthena)
- Fixed
storm jar
command to work properly when STORM_JAR_JVM_OPTS is not specified (thanks roadkill001)
- All logging now done with slf4j
- Replaced log4j logging system with logback
- Logs are now limited to 1GB per worker (configurable via logging configuration file)
- Build upgraded to leiningen 2.0
- Revamped Trident spout interfaces to support more dynamic spouts, such as a spout who reads from a changing set of brokers
- How tuples are serialized is now pluggable (thanks anfeng)
- Added blowfish encryption based tuple serialization (thanks anfeng)
- Have storm fall back to installed storm.yaml (thanks revans2)
- Improve error message when Storm detects bundled storm.yaml to show the URL's for offending resources (thanks revans2)
- Nimbus throws NotAliveException instead of FileNotFoundException from various query methods when topology is no longer alive (thanks revans2)
- Escape HTML and Javascript appropriately in Storm UI (thanks d2r)
- Storm's Zookeeper client now uses bounded exponential backoff strategy on failures
- Automatically drain and log error stream of multilang subprocesses
- Append component name to thread name of running executors so that logs are easier to read
- Messaging system used for passing messages between workers is now pluggable (thanks anfeng)
- Netty implementation of messaging (thanks anfeng)
- Include topology id, worker port, and worker id in properties for worker processes, useful for logging (thanks d2r)
- Tick tuples can now be scheduled using floating point seconds (thanks tscurtu)
- Added log viewer daemon and links from UI to logviewers (thanks xiaokang)
- DRPC server childopts now configurable (thanks strongh)
- Default number of ackers to number of workers, instead of just one (thanks lyogavin)
- Validate that Storm configs are of proper types/format/structure (thanks d2r)
- FixedBatchSpout will now replay batches appropriately on batch failure (thanks ptgoetz)
- Can set JAR_JVM_OPTS env variable to add jvm options when calling 'storm jar' (thanks srmelody)
- Throw error if batch id for transaction is behind the batch id in the opaque value (thanks mrflip)
- Sort topologies by name in UI (thanks jaked)
- Added LoggingMetricsConsumer to log all metrics to a file, by default not enabled (thanks mrflip)
- Add prepare(Map conf) method to TopologyValidator (thanks ankitoshniwal)
- Bug fix: Supervisor provides full path to workers to logging config rather than relative path (thanks revans2)
- Bug fix: Call ReducerAggregator#init properly when used within persistentAggregate (thanks lorcan)
- Bug fix: Set component-specific configs correctly for Trident spouts
原文地址:http://storm-project.net/2013/12/08/storm090-released.html
2013/12/10 by 邵贤军