Towards Automatic Parameter Tuning of Stream Processing Systems

Abstract

Optimizing the performance of big-data streaming applications has become a daunting and time-consuming task: parameters may be tuned from a space of hundreds or even thousands of possible configurations. In this paper, we present a framework for automating parameter tuning for stream-processing systems. Our framework supports standard black-box optimization algorithms as well as a novel gray-box optimization algorithm. We demonstrate the multiple benefits of automated parameter tuning in optimizing three benchmark applications in Apache Storm. Our results show that a hill-climbing algorithm that uses a new heuristic sampling approach based on Latin Hypercube provides the best results. Our gray-box algorithm provides comparable results while being two to five times faster.

Publication
Proceedings of the 8th ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing 2017 (SoCC'17)
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M. Bilal
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PhD 2022, now Senior Engineer at Unbabel.