Guarantee your single computation task to be finished in case of node failures/crash in apache Ignite

Here is the main steps from the overview above via the following flow :

1- You need to create 2 partitioned caches , one for single jobs reference and one for node Ids reference , you should make those caches backed by persistence store in production if you need to survive total grid crash

2- Define jobs cache after put interceptor to set the node id which is the primary owner and triggerer of that compute task

3- Define nodes cache interceptor to intercept after put actions so it can query for all pending jobs for that node id then submit them again into the compute grid with affinity

4- Enable event listening for node left and node removal in the grid to intercept node failure

Then let us run the show , imagine you have data and compute grid of 2 server nodes :

a- you trigger a job in node 1 which will do sensitive action like financial action and you need to be sure it is finished with a valid state whatever the case

b- what if that primary node 1 crashed , what will happen to that compute task , without the extension highlighted above it will disappear with the wind

c- but with that failover small extension , Node 2 . will catch an event that Node 1 left , then it will query jobs cache for all jobs that has that node id and resubmit them again for computation , optimal case if you have idempotent actions so it can be executed multiple times or use job checkpointing for saving the execution state to resume from the last saved point

Job data model for Jobs cache where we mark node id an ignite SQL queryable indexed field :

How the ignite failed nodes cache interceptor is implemented :

How the ignite jobs cache interceptor is implemented :

Apache ignite config :

Enable Node removal and failure events listening ONLY as enabling too much events will cause some performance overhead:

Main App tester :

Testing flow :

1- first run the first ignite server node with that code commented out :

2- then run the second server node but before doing it , uncomment the highlighted code above which simulate creating now jobs for computation by inserting them into the jobs cache

3- once you run the second node , after 5 seconds kill it by shutting it down once you see it started to submit jobs from the code you just uncommented, like:

intercepting for job action triggering and setting node id : f0920c5b-3655–4e85-aa60-f763a9eb1111
Executing computation logic for the request0Key

4- you will see in the first still running node a message that highlight it received and event about the removal of the second node which from it , it will fetch the node id , then insert it on the failed nodes cache where its cache interceptor will intercept the after put action , use the node id and query in jobs cache for still pending jobs that has the same node id and resubmit them again for execution in the compute grid and here we are happy that we caught the non finished jobs from the failed crashed primary node that submitted those jobs

Received Node event [evt=NODE_LEFT, nodeID=TcpDiscoveryNode [id=2da3e806–72e3–415b-acd3–07b7da0eabe0, addrs=[0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1%lo0, 127.0.0.1, 192.168.1.169], sockAddrs=[/192.168.1.169:47501, /0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1%lo0:47501, /127.0.0.1:47501], discPort=47501, order=2, intOrder=2, lastExchangeTime=1510666504589, loc=false, ver=2.3.1#20171031-sha1:d2c82c3c, isClient=false]]

and you will see it is fetching pending jobs and submitting it again, for example you will see the following in the IDEA console:

found a pending jobs for node id: c2a32b7d-1420–4e1a-8ca2-b7080e91dc22 and job id: 19Key
Executing the expiry post action for the request19Key

References :

• Apache Ignite : https://apacheignite.readme.io/docs
• Code reference is hosted into my github : https://github.com/Romeh/failover-singlejob-ignite