Convert AwaitedAction to and from raw bytes

[zbirenbaum]

Makes AwaitedAction Serialize/Deserialize and adds ability to convert to
and from raw bytes. This will be used to communicate operation data to
and external data storage such as Redis through the store API.

Towards #1182

Please delete options that aren't relevant.

• New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)

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• Updated documentation if needed
• Tests added/amended
• bazel test //... passes locally
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nativelink-scheduler/src/awaited_action_db/awaited_action.rs line 152 at r1 (raw file):

}

impl TryInto<Vec<u8>> for AwaitedAction {

Can we use protos or json strings instead?

the reason is because bincode is not multi-language compatible and allowing users to read the state out of redis directly (for scaling cloud instances) is a real use case.

[zbirenbaum]

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nativelink-scheduler/src/awaited_action_db/awaited_action.rs line 152 at r1 (raw file):

Previously, allada (Nathan (Blaise) Bruer) wrote…

Can we use protos or json strings instead?

the reason is because bincode is not multi-language compatible and allowing users to read the state out of redis directly (for scaling cloud instances) is a real use case.

Great point, updated it to use serde_json.

As a side note I did some digging and found this really useful tool which compared the performance of various encoders/decoders and serde_json is a really poor performer in the grand scheme of things.

https://david.kolo.ski/rust_serialization_benchmark

Prost is better but would lock us out of most or possibly all redis-specific advantages for performance.

I don't think this is something to prioritize atm though, serde_json should be fine for now, and this is abstracted to just produce/consume bytes so easily updatable later.

[allada]

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nativelink-scheduler/src/awaited_action_db/awaited_action.rs line 152 at r1 (raw file):

Previously, zbirenbaum (Zach Birenbaum) wrote…

Great point, updated it to use serde_json.

As a side note I did some digging and found this really useful tool which compared the performance of various encoders/decoders and serde_json is a really poor performer in the grand scheme of things.

https://david.kolo.ski/rust_serialization_benchmark

Prost is better but would lock us out of most or possibly all redis-specific advantages for performance.

I don't think this is something to prioritize atm though, serde_json should be fine for now, and this is abstracted to just produce/consume bytes so easily updatable later.

Yeah, performance is not something that is critical here, since we are going to be able to paralyze this. We could also make this a config option at some point.

[zbirenbaum]

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nativelink-scheduler/src/awaited_action_db/awaited_action.rs line 152 at r1 (raw file):

Previously, allada (Nathan (Blaise) Bruer) wrote…

Yeah, performance is not something that is critical here, since we are going to be able to paralyze this. We could also make this a config option at some point.

Sounds good

[zbirenbaum]

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