Apache Helix Articles

  • Jhubbub-on-Helix-making-stateless-and-elastic-easy

    Jhubbub on Helix: Stateless and elastic made easy

    August 27, 2020

    Co-authors: Hunter Lee and Dru Pollini LinkedIn was built to help professionals achieve more in their careers, and every day millions of people use our products to make connections, discover new opportunities and get better at what they do. An important part of our mission is helping people to find other professionals who are interested in the same things they...

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    Managing Distributed Tasks with Helix Task Framework

    January 24, 2019

    Co-authors: Junkai Xue and Hunter Lee Stateless tasks are widely used for serving large-scale data processing systems. Lots of requests were made by systems, which rely on Apache Helix, for a stateless task management feature to be added to Apache Helix. Recently, our team decided to explore new ways to manage stateless tasks, in addition to our ongoing work to...

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    Powering Helix’s Auto Rebalancer with Topology-Aware Partition Placement

    July 26, 2017

    Editor's note: This blog has been updated. Typical distributed data systems are clusters composed of a set of machines. If the dataset does not fit on a single machine, we usually shard the data into partitions, and each partition can have multiple replicas for fault tolerance. Partition management needs to ensure that replicas are distributed among machines as...

  • Apache Helix: A framework for Distributed System Development

    October 14, 2014

    This post originally appeared as a contributed piece on The New Stack. Distributed data systems are used in a variety of settings like...