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| Design |
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| Compatibility aspects (VES-JSON) |
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| HV-VES Collector is a high-volume variant of the existing VES (JSON) collector, and not a completely new collector. |
| HV-VES follows the VES-JSON schema as much as possible. |
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| - HV-VES uses a Google Protocol Buffers (GPB, proto files) representation of the VES Common Header. |
| - The proto files use most encoding effective types defined by GPB to cover Common Header fields. |
| - HV-VES makes routing decisions based mostly on the content of the **Domain** parameter. |
| - HV-VES allows to embed Payload of different types (by default perf3gpp domain is included). |
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| Analytics applications impacts |
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| - An analytics application operating on high-volume data needs to be prepared to read directly from Kafka. |
| - An analytics application needs to operate on GPB encoded data in order to benefit from GPB encoding efficiencies. |
| - It is assumed, that due to the nature of high volume data, there would have to be dedicated applications provided, able to operate on such volumes of data. |
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| Extendability |
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| HV-VES is designed to allow extending by adding new domain-specific proto files. |
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| The proto file (with the VES CommonHeader) comes with a binary-type **Payload** parameter, where domain-specific data should be placed. |
| Domain-specific data are encoded as well with GPB. A domain-specific proto file is required to decode the data. |
| This domain-specific proto has to be shared with analytics applications - HV-VES does not analyze domain-specific data. |
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| In order to support the RT-PM use-case, HV-VES includes a **perf3gpp** domain proto file. Within this domain, high volume data are expected to be reported to HV-VES collector. |
| Additional domains can be defined based on existing VES domains (like Fault, Heartbeat) or completely new domains. New domains can be added when needed. |
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| GPB proto files are backwards compatible, and a new domain can be added without affecting existing systems. |
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| Analytics applications have to be equipped with the new domain-specific proto file as well. |
| Currently, these additional, domain specific proto files can be added to respective repos of HV-VES collector. |
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| Implementation details |
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| - Project Reactor is used as a backbone of the internal architecture. |
| - Netty is used by means of reactor-netty library. |
| - Kotlin is used to write concise code with great interoperability with existing Java libraries. |
| - Types defined in Λrrow library are also used when it improves readability or general cleanness of the code. |
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