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Priority Operation Processing (POP)

What is Priority Operation Processing?

• A workflow orchestration system where the workflow is scheduled as a unit giving resource priority once selected

• Priority queuing and customizable scheduling algorithms

• Customer aware for multi-tenant

• Authentication via AWS Authorizer

• Data object visibility for allowed customers

• A JSON DAG based blueprint defines the execution flow

• Executes operations within a workflow by spinning up on-demand Kubernetes Pods (dynamic resource allocation)

Technologies

• API Gateway

• AWS Authorizer

• Lambda

• SQS

• Dynamo

• CloudFormation

• CloudWatch

• Kubernetes

• Kubernetes Annotations

• Docker

• Graphite

Components

Step 1: Submission

Workflow (Agenda) POP's workflow data model is called an Agenda.

Features

• Simple list of operations

• Node Graph / DAG model

• Variable referencing between operations

• Non-strict API for inputs / outputs of each operation

• Agenda decoupling from underlying execution technologies / APIs. Each operation has a JSON payload that adheres to the API of the POP Handler that will perform the op.

• The Agenda Executor will immediately run an operation as long as dependency variables are met

• The Agenda Executor will look up Docker image by operation type and spin up a new Kubernetes Pod for the operation

Step 2: Scheduling

Scheduling

Step 3: Execution

Execution

Technology Solutions

Scheduling

• Supports different scheduling algorithms for work queues (FIFO, Fairness, Priority)

• Queues are scheduled asynchronously, no more heavy calculations at the time work is requested

• Queues are defined by Insights (key words / identifiers / key-value pairs)

• Queue sizes are configurable

Pluggable support for new technologies

• Dynamic spinning up of Pods with Docker Images

• No strict schema registration for new POP Handlers

• No zoning hassles

• No account permissions per handler

• Simple Docker image configuration for new Handlers

Scalability / Cloud / Bare-metal

• Kubernetes

• Each POP Handler does one job

• Handlers are spun up dynamically and control their CPU requirements for dependent Pods

Multiple centers for processing content

• Support for centers behind firewalls to have their own Kubernetes cluster do the content processing

• Namespace segregation for customers wanting isolated resources within the same cluster

Parallel processing

• Able to parallel process operations with no waiting dependencies.

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