Any technology piece to be successful, should have clearly defined architecture principles based on which its design is created and then evolved throughout. Flume also comes in one such software and up next are some of the architecture principles based on which Flume was designed (some of those got introduced as part of Flume NG):
- Reliability: The capability of continuously accepting stream data and events without losing any data, in a variety of failure scenarios (mostly partial failures). One of the core architecture principles taken very seriously by Flume is fault-tolerance, which means that even if some components fail or misbehave, some hardware issues pop up, or if bandwidth or network behaves bad, Flume will accept these as facts of life in most cases and carry on doing its main job without shutting down completely. Flume does guarantee that the data reaching the Flume Agent will eventually be handed over to other components as long as the agent is kept...
