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+===================
+Arroyo Architecture
+===================
+
+Arroyo is a set of high level abstractions to interact with Kafka.
+These are meant to help the developer in writing performant consumers with
+specific delivery guarantees.
+
+Common problems addressed by Arroyo are guaranteeing at-least-once delivery,
+providing a dead letter queue abstraction, support parallel (multi-processing)
+message processing, etc.
+
+The library is divided into three layers: the basic Kafka connectivity, the
+streaming engine and the high level abstractions.
+
+The basic connectivity layer is a simple wrapper around the Confluent python
+library, which is itself based on librdkafka. Besides some cosmetic changes,
+this level provides a Fake in memory broker and consumer to make unit test quick
+to run.
+
+The streaming engine provides an asynchronous processing interface to write
+consumers. The consumer is written as a pipeline where each segment is an
+asynchronous operation. The streaming engine implements the main consumer loop
+and delegates the processing to the pipeline.
+
+On top of the streaming engine, the library provides high-level abstractions that
+are common when writing Kafka consumers like: *map*, *reduce*, *filter* together
+with some common messaging application patterns like the dead letter queue.
+
+Streaming Interface and Streaming Engine
+----------------------------------------
+
+A Kafka consumer is built as a pipeline where each segment processes messages in
+an asynchronous way. The Streaming engine provides a message to a segment. The
+segment is not supposed to execute small CPU work in a blocking way or do IO in a
+non-blocking way. We generally use futures for this, and heavier CPU work in a
+separate process.
+
+Arroyo provides an interface to implement to write a pipeline segment.
+The segment interface is called *ProcessingStrategy* and is in
+`this module <https://github.com/getsentry/arroyo/blob/main/arroyo/processing/strategies/abstract.py>`_.
+(TODO: bring the docstrings to the docs and reference that).
+
+In most cases, when developing a consumer, the developer would not implement
+that interface directly. A higher level abstraction would be used.
+
+.. figure:: _static/diagrams/arroyo_processing.png
+
+The main consumer loop is managed by the `stream engine <https://github.com/getsentry/arroyo/blob/main/arroyo/processing/processor.py>`_.
+These are the phases:
+
+* Poll from the Kafka consumer through the basic library. If a message is there
+  proceed or repeat.
+
+* Submit the message to the first *ProcessingStrategy*. This is supposed to deliver
+  work for the strategy to do. It is not supposed to be a blocking operation. The
+  strategy should return immediately.
+
+* Poll the strategy to execute work or to forward results to the following step
+  in the pipeline. Ideally all IO should be done in separate threads and heavy cpu
+  work should be done in separate processes so the *poll* method should check for
+  completed work, dispatch to the next step and return. In practice, work is executed
+  here in a blocking way if the overhead of offloading the work is too high.
+
+The *ProcessingStrategy* may decide not to take the message and instead apply back-pressure.
+This is done by raising the *MessageRejected* exception. In this case, the streaming
+engine pauses the consumer till the strategy is ready to accept the message.
+
+The *ProcessingStrategy* decides when it is time to commit a message. This is done
+through a commit callback provided to the strategy when it is instantiated.
+
+The streaming engine orchestrates the life cycle of the *ProcessingStrategy*, thus
+when it thinks it is time to shut the strategy down it would wait for all in-flight
+work to be completed and then destroy the strategy.
+
+There are two scenarios where this can happen:
+
+* The consumer is being terminated.
+* A rebalancing happened. A rebalancing revokes partitions and assigns new ones.
+  After a rebalancing is complete it is impossible to commit a message from a partition
+  that was revoked. In order to ensure the consumer behaves in a consistent way,
+  upon rebalancing, the streaming engine destroys the strategy and builds a new one.
+  This allows the strategy to complete all in-flight work before being terminated.
+
+High level strategies
+-----------------------
+
+Most consumers follow the same few patterns, so Arroyo provides abstractions that
+are based on the *ProcessingStrategy* but are simpler to implement for the common
+use cases.
+
+Common examples are:
+
+* ``run task, run task in threads, run task with multiprocessing``. The run task
+  set of strategies are designed to be the most flexible and simple to use. They take
+  a function provided by the user and execute it on every message, passing the output
+  to the next step. The library includes synchronous and asynchronous versions depending
+  on the kind of concurrency required by the user.
+
+* ``filter, map and forward``. This type of consumer inspects a message, decides
+  whether to process it or discard it, transforms its content, and produces the result
+  on a new topic. In this case, Arroyo provides three implementations of the
+  *ProcessingStrategy*: *filter*, *transform*, and *produce*. The developer only needs
+  to wire them together and provide the map and filtering logic.
+
+* ``consume, apply side effects, produce``. This is a variation of the one above.
+  In this case, the transform operation can have side-effects like storing the content
+  of the message somewhere.
+
+* ``high throughput cpu intensive transform``. The python GIL does not allow CPU intensive
+  work to take advantage of parallelism. Arroyo provides an implementation of the *map*
+  pattern that batches messages and dispatches the work to separate processes via shared
+  memory. This is largely transparent to the developers.
+
+* ``map, reduce and store``. The reduce function is carried out by the *Collector*, which
+  batches messages and executes some logic with side-effects when the batch is full.
+  This is a typical way to write messages on a storages in batches to reduce the
+  round trips.
+
+All strategies included with Arroyo are in `the strategies module <https://github.com/getsentry/arroyo/tree/main/arroyo/processing/strategies>`_.

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+Backpressure
+============
+
+.. py:currentmodule:: arroyo.processing.strategies
+
+Arroyo's own processing strategies internally apply backpressure by raising
+:py:class:`~abstract.MessageRejected`. Most
+consumers do not require additional work to deal with backpressure correctly.
+
+If you want to slow down the consumer based on some external signal or
+condition, you can achieve that most effectively by raising the same exception
+from within a callback passed to :py:class:`~run_task.RunTask` while the
+consumer is supposed to be paused
+
+.. code-block:: Python
+
+    class ConsumerStrategyFactory(ProcessingStrategyFactory[KafkaPayload]):
+        def __init__(self):
+            self.is_paused = False
+
+        def create_with_partitions(
+            self,
+            commit: Commit,
+            partitions: Mapping[Partition, int],
+        ) -> ProcessingStrategy[KafkaPayload]:
+            def handle_message(message: Message[KafkaPayload]) -> Message[KafkaPayload]:
+                if self.is_paused:
+                    raise MessageRejected()
+
+                print(f"MSG: {message.payload}")
+                return message
+
+            return RunTask(handle_message, CommitOffsets(commit))
+
+It is not recommended to apply backpressure by just ``sleep()``-ing in
+:py:class:`~abstract.ProcessingStrategy.submit` (or, in this example,
+``handle_message``) for more than a few milliseconds. While this definitely
+pauses the consumer, it will block the main thread for too long and and prevent
+things like consumer rebalancing from occuring.
+
+A 0.01 second sleep is applied each time :py:class:`~abstract.MessageRejected` is
+raised to prevent the main thread spinning at 100% CPU. However background thread
+performance may be impacted during this time.

_sources/dlqs.rst.txt

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+==================
+Dead letter queues
+==================
+
+.. warning::
+    Dead letter queues should be used with caution as they break some of the ordering guarantees
+    otherwise offered by Arroyo and Kafka consumer code. In particular, it must be safe for the
+    consumer to drop a message. If replaying or later re-processing of the DLQ'ed messages is done,
+    it is critical that ordering is not a requirement in the relevant downstream code.
+
+Arroyo provides support for routing invalid messages to dead letter queues in consumers.
+Dead letter queues are critical in some applications because messages are ordered in Kafka
+and a single invalid message can cause a consumer to crash and every subsequent message to
+not be processed.
+
+The dead letter queue configuration is passed to the `StreamProcessor` and, if provided, any
+`InvalidMessage` raise by a strategy will be produced to the dead letter queue.
+
+
+.. automodule:: arroyo.dlq
+   :members: InvalidMessage, DlqLimit, DlqPolicy, DlqProducer, KafkaDlqProducer, NoopDlqProducer