Beam Summit 2021 - Simple Distributed Raytracer with the Beam Go SDK
Demonstrate the Beam Go SDK with a raytracer as the motivating example. Attendees will come away with a light overview of Ray Tracing, but the focus is on implementing it using Beam Go. Includes
Raytracing overview
Using SplittableDoFns to divide work (and DoFn basics)
Writing final images to GCS
Collecting and accessing Metrics
Debugging using the Python Portable runner and Loopback mode.
Executing on a distributed runner.