strmbrkr 1.4.1

Simultaneous Task Registrar and Message Broker

STRMBRKR

Simultaneous Task Registrar and Message Broker

The hammer for all of your parallel processing nails.

This package abstracts zeroMQ's Load Balancing Message Broker design pattern to facilitate the brokering of processor-intensive workloads across parallel workers. This package also provides a KeyValueStore implementation inspired by Redis and built on zeroMQ's REQ/REP socket pattern that facilitates inter-process communication.

Installation

To install the strmbrkr package, you'll need Python and pip installed. There are a variety of ways to do this, such as using Miniconda, so it's left to the user to utilize their preferred method.

Installing in Development Mode

This method is recommended if you plan on making updates to the source code and don't want to re-install that package with each change. Clone this repository and install using pip:

$ git clone [e-mail]:kdavid13/strmbrkr.git
$ cd ./strmbrkr
$ pip install -e .

Usage

Here is an example script (available as example.py) that utilizes the strmbrkr package. It is standalone and should run on any system with the strmbrkr package properly installed. For more examples of strmbrkr edge cases like error handling and watchdog timers, peruse the tests/ directory.

"""
Initialize the `strmbrkr` interchange service (a.k.a. key-value store).
"""
from strmbrkr import Job, KeyValueStore, QueueManager, WorkerManager

worker_manager = WorkerManager()
queue_manager = QueueManager()

"""
Define some work that needs to be done.
"""
from random import randrange
from time import sleep

def sleepAndReturn(how_long: float, throw: Exception = None):
    """Example work method."""
    sleep(how_long)

    if throw is not None:
        raise throw

    KeyValueStore.appendValue("sleep_list", how_long)
    sleep_list = KeyValueStore.getValue("sleep_list")
    KeyValueStore.setValue("sleep_sum", sum(sleep_list))

    return how_long

jobs = [Job(sleepAndReturn, [randrange(3, 10), ]) for _ in range(10)]

"""
> Note:
>
> The worker processes must be started _after_ the work that's being done has been defined.
> Otherwise, the workers will not be able to resolve the reference to the function pointer.
"""
worker_manager.startWorkers()

"""
Record the time for performance reporting.
"""
from time import time
_start = time()

"""
Enqueue the jobs, wait for the jobs to process, and then report results.
"""
queue_manager.queueJobs(*jobs)
queue_manager.blockUntilProcessed(timeout = 60)
print(f"Completed processing in {time() - _start} seconds")
for result in queue_manager.getResults():
    print(f"Job {result.id} returned {result.status}: {result.retval}")
print(f"Total time processed: {KeyValueStore.getValue('sleep_sum')}")

"""In addition to logging messages from the `strmbrkr` package, the resultant report should look something like this:

Completed processing in 18.03610348701477 seconds
Job 2 returned Status.PROCESSED: 3
Job 1 returned Status.PROCESSED: 4
Job 3 returned Status.PROCESSED: 5
Job 4 returned Status.PROCESSED: 4
Job 0 returned Status.PROCESSED: 8
Job 6 returned Status.PROCESSED: 3
Job 7 returned Status.PROCESSED: 5
Job 5 returned Status.PROCESSED: 9
Job 9 returned Status.PROCESSED: 5
Job 8 returned Status.PROCESSED: 9
Total time processed: 55
"""

"""
Tear down `strmbrkr` infrastructure.
"""
worker_manager.stopWorkers()
queue_manager.stopHandling()
KeyValueStore.stopServerProcess()

Configuration

When utilizing strmbrkr library components, you may find it useful to change their default behaviors. strmbrkr will look two places for configuration options: environment variables and a strmbrkr.env file in the current working directory. The configuration options available are as follows:

• STRMBRKR_LOGGING_LEVEL (str): Level at which the STRMBRKR module logger will emit messages. Default: INFO.
• STRMBRKR_CONFIG_LOG_LEVEL (str): Level at which to log the contents of the configuration. Default: DEBUG.
• STRMBRKR_WORKER_PROC_COUNT (int): Default number of worker processes spun up by an instance of WorkerManager. Default: 4.
• STRMBRKR_WORKER_WATCHDOG_TERMINATE_AFTER (int): The default number of seconds a worker can spend processing a single job before being terminated. Default: 15.
• STRMBRKR_KVS_CLIENT_SOCKET_TIMEOUT (int): Connection timeout (in milliseconds) of the KeyValueStore client. Default: 500.
• STRMBRKR_KVS_CLIENT_SOCKET_ATTEMPTS (int): How many times the KeyValueStore client will attempt to connect to the server before failing. Default: 1.
• STRMBRKR_KVS_DUMP_PIPELINE_STATUS_REPORTS (bool): Flag that indicates whether to save pipeline status reports for debugging. Default: False.
• STRMBRKR_SOCKET_PROTOCOL (str): The type of socket protocol that strmbrkr will use. Default: tcp.
• STRMBRKR_INSTANCE_ID (str): A unique identifier for the strmbrkr 'instance' using this configuration. Default: the process ID of Python interpreter instance running what is colloquially known as the 'control thread'.

See documentation in the strmbrkr.config submodule for more information.