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# Design Documents
This is a collection of documents that may or may not be up to date.

## Documents by category
### Project Incubation (2016)
- Technical Vision [[doc](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UyAeugHxZmVlQ5cEWo_eOPgXNQA1oD-rGooWOSwAqh8/edit)], [[slides](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1E9seGPB_VXtY_KZP4HngDPTbsu5RVZFFaTlwEYa88Zw)]
- Repository Structure [[doc](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mTeZED33Famq25XedbKeDlGIJRvtzCXjSfwH9NKQYUE)]
- Flink runner: Current status and development roadmap [[doc](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QM_X70VvxWksAQ5C114MoAKb1d9Vzl2dLxEZM4WYogo)]
- Spark Runner Technical Vision [[doc](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1y4qlQinjjrusGWlgq-mYmbxRW2z7-_X5Xax-GG0YsC0)]
- PPMC deep dive [[slides](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1uTb7dx4-Y2OM_B0_3XF_whwAL2FlDTTuq2QzP9sJ4Mg)]

### Beam Model
- Checkpoints [[doc](https://s.apache.org/FIWQ)]
- A New DoFn [[doc](https://s.apache.org/a-new-dofn)], [[slides](https://s.apache.org/presenting-a-new-dofn)]
- Proposed Splittable DoFn API changes [[doc](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BGc8pM1GOvZhwR9SARSVte-20XEoBUxrGJ5gTWXdv3c)]
- Splittable DoFn (Obsoletes Source API) [[doc](http://s.apache.org/splittable-do-fn)]
  - Reimplementing Beam API classes on top of Splittable DoFn on top of Source API [[doc](https://s.apache.org/sdf-via-source)]
  - New TextIO features based on SDF [[doc](http://s.apache.org/textio-sdf)]
  - Watch transform [[doc](http://s.apache.org/beam-watch-transform)]
- State and Timers for DoFn [[doc](https://s.apache.org/beam-state)]
- ContextFn [[doc](http://s.apache.org/context-fn)]
- Static Display Data [[doc](https://docs.google.com/document/d/11enEB9JwVp6vO0uOYYTMYTGkr3TdNfELwWqoiUg5ZxM)]
- Lateness (and Panes) in Apache Beam [[doc](https://s.apache.org/beam-lateness)]
- Triggers in Apache Beam [[doc](https://s.apache.org/beam-triggers)]
- Triggering is for sinks [[doc](https://s.apache.org/beam-sink-triggers)] (not implemented)
- Pipeline Drain [[doc](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NExwHlj-2q2WUGhSO4jTu8XGhDPmm3cllSN8IMmWci8)]
- Pipelines Considered Harmful [[doc](https://s.apache.org/no-beam-pipeline)]
- Side-Channel Inputs [[doc](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1e_-MenoW2cQ-6-EGVVqfOR-B9FovVXqXyUm4-ZwlgKA)]
- Dynamic Pipeline Options [[doc](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1I-iIgWDYasb7ZmXbGBHdok_IK1r1YAJ90JG5Fz0_28o)]
- SDK Support for Reading Dynamic PipelineOptions [[doc](https://docs.google.com/document/d/17I7HeNQmiIfOJi0aI70tgGMMkOSgGi8ZUH-MOnFatZ8)]
- Fine-grained Resource Configuration in Beam [[doc](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1N0y64dbzmukLLEy6M9CygdI_H88pIS3NtcOAkL5-oVw)]
- External Join with KV Stores [[doc](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1B-XnUwXh64lbswRieckU0BxtygSV58hysqZbpZmk03A)]
- Error Reporting Callback (WIP) [[doc](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1o2VXwCL97k3G-1BR9RSKNc6XtJTIA6SEKPMne91S67Y)]
- Snapshotting and Updating Beam Pipelines [[doc](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UWhnYPgui0gUYOsuGcCjLuoOUlGA4QaY91n8p3wz9MY)]
- Requiring PTransform to set a coder on its resulting collections [[mail](https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/1dde0b5a93c2983cbab5f68ce7c74580102f5bb2baaa816585d7eabb@%3Cdev.beam.apache.org%3E)]
- Support of @RequiresStableInput annotation [[doc](https://docs.google.com/document/d/117yRKbbcEdm3eIKB_26BHOJGmHSZl1YNoF0RqWGtqAM)], [[mail](https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ae3c838df060e47148439d1dad818d5e927b2a25ff00cc4153221dff@%3Cdev.beam.apache.org%3E)]
- [PROPOSAL] @onwindowexpiration [[mail](https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/1dab7f17c97378e665928b11116cbd887dc7be93390ab26c593ee49a@%3Cdev.beam.apache.org%3E)]

### IO / Filesystem
- IOChannelFactory Redesign [[doc](https://docs.google.com/document/d/11TdPyZ9_zmjokhNWM3Id-XJsVG3qel2lhdKTknmZ_7M)]
- Configurable BeamFileSystem [[doc](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-7vo9nLRsEEzDGnb562PuL4q9mUiq_ZVpCAiyyJw8p8)]
- New API for writing files in Beam [[doc](http://s.apache.org/fileio-write)]
- Dynamic file-based sinks [[doc](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Bd9mJO1YC8vOoFObJFupVURBMCl7jWt6hOgw6ClwxE4)]
- Event Time and Watermarks in KafkaIO [[doc](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DyWcLJpALRoUfvYUbiPCDVikYb_Xz2X7Co2aDUVVd4I)]
- Exactly-once Kafka sink [[doc](https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/fb394e576e6e858205307b033c5a5c6cc3923a17606814a54036c570@%3Cdev.beam.apache.org%3E)]

### Metrics
- Metrics API [[doc](http://s.apache.org/beam-metrics-api)]
- I/O Metrics [[doc](https://s.apache.org/standard-io-metrics)]
- Metrics extraction independent from runners / execution engines [[doc](https://s.apache.org/runner_independent_metrics_extraction)]
- Watermark Metrics [[doc](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ykjjG97DjVQP73jGbotGRbtK38hGvFbokNEOuNO4DAo)]
- Support Dropwizard Metrics in Beam [[doc](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-35iyCIJ9P4EQONlakgXBFRGUYoOLanq2Uf2sw5EjJw)]

### Runners
- Runner Authoring Guide [[doc](https://s.apache.org/beam-runner-guide)] (obsoletes [[doc](http://s.apache.org/beam-runner-api)] and [[doc](https://s.apache.org/beam-runner-1-pager)])
- Composite PInputs, POutputs, and the Runner API [[doc](https://s.apache.org/beam-runner-composites)]
- Side Input Architecture for Apache Beam [[doc](https://s.apache.org/beam-side-inputs-1-pager)]

### SQL / Schema
- Streams and Tables [[doc](https://s.apache.org/beam-streams-tables)]
- Streaming SQL [[doc](http://s.apache.org/streaming-sql-spec)]
- Schema-Aware PCollections [[doc](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tnG2DPHZYbsomvihIpXruUmQ12pHGK0QIvXS1FOTgRc)]
- Pubsub to Beam SQL [[doc](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wIXTxh-nQ3u694XbF0iEZX_7-b3yi4ad0ML2pcAxYfE)]
- Apache Beam Proposal: design of DSL SQL interface [[doc](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uWXL_yF3UUO5GfCxbL6kWsmC8xCWfICU3RwiQKsk7Mk)]
- Calcite/Beam SQL Windowing [[doc](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RmyV9e1Qab-axsLI1WWpw5oGAJDv0X7y9OSnPnrZWJk)]
- Reject Unsupported Windowing Strategies in JOIN [[doc](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1V-ZgKVTwHdNSGlQWncWIzcf_Rw2oLKZFSkU43scLff4)]
- Beam DSL_SQL branch API review [[doc](https://s.apache.org/beam-sql-dsl-api-review)]
- Complex Types Support for Beam SQL DDL [[mail](https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/c494e521cb6865b1ae19a68e8e653afc562df7744e8d08087249cbe0@%3Cdev.beam.apache.org%3E)]
- [SQL] Reject unsupported inputs to Joins [[mail](https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/e7a442fa9cf6b76a5b435493170508f6c42fb9ccef9bcef434424f79@%3Cdev.beam.apache.org%3E)]
- Integrating runners & IO [[doc](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZFVlnldrIYhUgOfxIT2JcmTFFSWTl4HwAnQsnwiNL1g)]
- Beam SQL Pipeline Options [[doc](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UTsSBuruJRfGnVOS9eXbQI6NauCD4WnSAPgA_Y0zjdk)]
- Unbounded limit [[doc](https://docs.google.com/document/d/13zeTewHH9nfwhSlcE4x77WQwr1U2Z4sTiNRjOXUj2aw)]

### Portability
- Fn API
  - Apache Beam Fn API Overview [[doc](https://s.apache.org/beam-fn-api)]
  - Processing a Bundle [[doc](https://s.apache.org/beam-fn-api-processing-a-bundle)]
  - Progress [[doc](https://s.apache.org/beam-fn-api-progress-reporting)]
  - Graphical view of progress [[doc](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Dx18qBTvFWNqwLeecemOpKfleKzFyeV3Qwh71SHATvY)]
  - Fn State API and Bundle Processing [[doc](https://s.apache.org/beam-fn-state-api-and-bundle-processing)]
  - Checkpointing and splitting of Beam bundles over the Fn API, with application to SDF [[doc](https://s.apache.org/beam-breaking-fusion)]
  - How to send and receive data [[doc](https://s.apache.org/beam-fn-api-send-and-receive-data)]
  - Defining and adding SDK Metrics [[doc](https://s.apache.org/beam-fn-api-metrics)]
  - SDK harness container contract [[doc](https://s.apache.org/beam-fn-api-container-contract)]
  - Structure and Lifting of Combines [[doc](https://s.apache.org/beam-runner-api-combine-model)]
- Cross-language Beam Pipelines [[doc](https://s.apache.org/beam-mixed-language-pipelines)]
- SDK X with Runner Y using Runner API [[doc](https://s.apache.org/beam-job-api)]
- Flink Portable Runner Overview [[doc](https://s.apache.org/portable-flink-runner-overview)]
- Launching portable pipeline on Flink Runner [[doc](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xOaEEJrMmiSHprd-WiYABegfT129qqF-idUBINjxz8s)]
- Portability support [[table](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1KDa_FGn1ShjomGd-UUDOhuh2q73de2tPz6BqHpzqvNI)]
- Portability Prototype [[doc](https://s.apache.org/beam-portability-team-doc)]
- Portable Artifact Staging [[doc](https://docs.google.com/document/d/12zNk3O2nhTB8Zmxw5U78qXrvlk5r42X8tqF248IDlpI)]
- Portable Beam on Flink [[doc](https://s.apache.org/portable-beam-on-flink)]

### Build / Testing
- More Expressive PAsserts [[doc](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fZUUbG2LxBtqCVabQshldXIhkMcXepsbv2vuuny8Ix4)]
- Mergebot design document [[doc](https://docs.google.com/document/d/18iFnW6egjqd_ADXCTQcuAkkz3J96LHdV5DlYUhXHf0M)]
- Performance tests for commonly used file-based I/O PTransforms [[doc](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dA-5s6OHiP_cz-NRAbwapoKF5MEC1wKps4A5tFbIPKE)]
- Performance tests results analysis and basic regression detection [[doc](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Cb7XVmqe__nA_WCrriAifL-3WCzbZzV4Am5W_SkQLeA)]
- Eventual PAssert [[doc](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1X_3KH_6QyfOSnh5kNK-fHlkEDrwPVpA2RnRggMMxhUk)]
- Testing I/O Transforms in Apache Beam [[doc](https://docs.google.com/document/d/153J9jPQhMCNi_eBzJfhAg-NprQ7vbf1jNVRgdqeEE8I)]
- Reproducible Environment for Jenkins Tests By Using Container [[doc](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1U7FeVMiHiBP-pFm4ULotqG1QqZY0fi7g9ZwTmeIgvvM)]
- Keeping precommit times fast [[doc](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1udtvggmS2LTMmdwjEtZCcUQy6aQAiYTI3OrTP8CLfJM/edit?usp=sharing)]
- Increase Beam post-commit tests stability [[doc](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sczGwnCvdHiboVajGVdnZL0rfnr7ViXXAebBAf_uQME)]
- Beam-Site Automation Reliability [[doc](https://s.apache.org/beam-site-automation)]
- Managing outdated dependencies [[doc](https://docs.google.com/document/d/15m1MziZ5TNd9rh_XN0YYBJfYkt0Oj-Ou9g0KFDPL2aA)]
- Automation For Beam Dependency Check [[doc](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rqr_8a9NYZCgeiXpTIwWLCL7X8amPAVfRXsO72BpBwA)]

### Python
- Beam Python User State and Timer APIs [[doc](https://s.apache.org/beam-python-user-state-and-timers)]
- Python Kafka connector [[doc](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ogRS-e-HYYTHsXi_l2zDUUOnvfzEbub3BFkPrYIOawU)]
- Python 3 support [[doc](https://s.apache.org/beam-python-3)]

### Go
- Apache Beam Go SDK design [[doc](https://s.apache.org/beam-go-sdk-design-rfc)]
- Go SDK Vanity Import Path [[doc](https://s.apache.org/go-beam-vanity-import)]
- Go SDK Integration Tests [[doc](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jy6EE7D4RjgfNV0FhD3rMsT1YKhnUfcHRZMAlC6ygXw)]

## Other
Some of documents are available on this [google drive](https://drive.google.com/corp/drive/folders/0B-IhJZh9Ab52OFBVZHpsNjc4eXc)

To add new design document it is recommended to use this [design document template](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kVePqjt2daZd0bQHGUwghlcLbhvrny7VpflAzk9sjUg)
