A history recorded before the move (MLflow experiments) had nowhere to
go, since runs were only made by running a flow. Each entry is stored as
it ended: parameters completed and checked like a submit, cause
"import", empty commit and code digest, metrics and artifacts written
as given, nothing queued or announced. Run.external_id (new migration)
makes a second import a no-op and is an export column so a row joins
back. The request is all or nothing and capped at 200 entries;
Client.import_runs pages a longer history.
`fluksio run` walked the working directory and imported every module in
it, which ran a research repository's analysis scripts before the run was
submitted. A flow's origin now records the file and module name that
declared it, and run/sweep import just that, under the same name so the
generated node bodies do not change. A flow with no record still walks,
now skipping what .gitignore covers.
Every code-defined flow reports `flow` changed once on its next sync,
since the origin gained two fields.
Each was a loose end recorded under `### SDK` in the notepad.
`serve` takes its own pidfile down on SIGTERM. uvicorn restores the handler it
found and re-raises the signal it stopped on, so the default handler ended the
process without unwinding and the `finally` never ran — which is what a stop
sends, and what left `serve.pid` behind.
`serve.log` is cut back past 5 MB by the engine rather than by the screen that
started it, so an adopted engine is bounded too. Gated on its own stdout being
an appended regular file, which is what makes the cut safe: the kernel then
puts the next write at the new end.
Cards are counted from `/dev/nvidia[0-9]*`, so `FLOW_GPUS`/`--gpus` of 0 means
"work it out" the way `FLOW_CPUS` always has. The engine counts, not the
accountant — a remote worker builds one of those from its own inventory, and
detecting there would hand it the engine host's cards. The worker counts last:
what a batch job says it was granted still wins.
`GET /runs/metrics/names` is the distinct over a selection that `--list` and
the terminal's metric picker were approximating by reading the newest run that
had measured anything, which missed a name only an older run ever wrote.
`MetricSink` announces each batch it has written (`run_metric`, carrying the
names). Not a per-point event: one covers up to 500 points or two seconds of
them, and the rows stay the record. The terminal comparison fills in as the
first readings land instead of staying blank until reopened, and the browser
refetches the run and any comparison rather than the list behind them.
`retry --group` pages the list route by `before` instead of stopping at 500.
The terminal dashboard takes the terminal's colours (`ansi-dark`), and the web
UI can re-pair from Settings without disconnecting first.
serve: refuse a second engine for one data directory whatever port it was
asked for, using the pidfile and a token this directory signed. The check
runs before the database is touched and before the credential is written,
which is what left every later CLI call pointing at a dead port.
The terminal dashboard is three tabs (Overview, Runs, Logs) with the toolbar
following the focused pane, the engine's output goes to serve.log rather than
down a pipe, and closing the screen stops both reader threads so the prompt
comes back. It adopts a running engine on every start, so stop/start and
restart work on one it did not start, and a stop waits for the process to be
gone before the next start. Enrolment reports itself in the modal.
enroll: a new claim code replaces the pairing instead of being refused. The
code is redeemed before anything is written, mappings to a portal being left
are cleared, and a running engine redials when the stored enrolment changes.
runs: an engine re-queues the runs left `queued` by the one before it, and
`fluksio retry <id>` / `retry --group <sweep>` submits an interrupted run
again with the same inputs and group, recorded through Run.parent_id.
Follows the portal: the noun is "instance" everywhere the app says it —
UI strings, CLI output, error details, docs and comments. The wire keys
(`instance_id`, `instance_token`) and the hub route this calls move with it.
An existing cloud.json is adopted rather than refused: without the key
alias the dataclass fails to parse, which the caller swallows and reads as
"never enrolled" instead of "reconnect".
`instance_key` on a node type becomes `target_key`. It means the outside
thing a node points at, which is a different sense of the word, and keeping
both would put two meanings of "instance" in one codebase.
`space` ticks runs on the serve dashboard's table and `enter` compares them:
one metric in braille, five distinct hues, and the table of what actually
differs under it. Both halves are routes that already existed — the browser's
own comparison endpoint for the curves, the runs export for the table, whose
input columns are filtered to the ones that vary.
The palette is hue rather than the web's lightness ramp on purpose: five steps
of one brand hue collapse to a single colour on a 16-colour tty.
The screen also subscribes to the engine's event bus over the same websocket a
browser uses, so a run that starts and finishes inside a tick is seen rather
than only recorded. `a` lists what a run left behind and fetches it.
`export runs` dropped a `param.*` column whose value was constant across the
exported runs, so a downstream filter broke depending on which runs the
selection happened to hold. Every input the selection recorded is a column
now; `--params` still narrows it to a sweep's axis. The metrics default is
unchanged.
Comparing the per-node digest against an engine that does not record one is
comparing against nothing, and reporting every node as changed on every sync
for ever — which is what a client newer than its engine did, since `NodeDef`
drops fields it has never heard of. A node is named now only when both sides
carry a digest, so a no-op sync is `unchanged` again and the signal one syncs
for is back.
That silence had also been the only sign of the mismatch, so sync now names
it: one line saying the engine stored no record of what a node's code reaches,
with both versions in it and what to run. Bumped to 0.1.6 — the digest changed
the stored document's shape, and a version that does not move makes two
different engines indistinguishable, which is the thing it was made
load-bearing for a day ago.
`— draft` was printed whenever there was simply nothing to publish, which
reads as work left unfinished. It is said only when a draft is genuinely
there, and `— published` when one was.
`sync` follows each node function's imports through the project's own modules
— stopping at the standard library, at anything installed, and at Fluksio
itself, whose checkout would otherwise be most of every digest — and records
the file list with what it hashed to. The engine hashes those files again when
the run is claimed, so the fingerprint is live rather than a snapshot, and
falls back to what sync recorded when it cannot see them: a remote worker's
runs used to share one empty digest, and therefore one key.
Three things follow. Editing a helper a node calls into re-runs that node, as
before. Editing something the node never reaches no longer re-runs anything —
a notebook two directories away was invalidating every arm. And
`Run.code_digest` is now the hash of its nodes' digests, so it is neither
looser nor tighter than "the code behind these numbers", which is what makes
it worth joining an exported table on.
`sync` says so too: it compares the per-node digest against the stored one, so
a helper edit prints `train: updated (flow, fit)` instead of `unchanged`. The
digest is read when the document is built rather than when the flow is
declared, so a second `sync()` in one process sees an edit between them.
Also: `fluksio runs` shows only the inputs that differ from what the flow
declares, fitted to the terminal, so a flow taking a few kB of json no longer
wraps every line.
Every existing cache entry misses once — the fingerprint changed shape.
`fluksio export metrics` is the long table — a row per run, metric and step —
and `fluksio export runs` the wide one, a row per run with the inputs that
*vary* across the selection as columns beside its final numbers, status,
duration and the commit and digest of the code it ran. Both carry the run id
on every row, which is the join back to the run page and what makes an
exported file auditable. `Client.export_metrics`/`export_runs` answer the same
rows to a notebook.
The engine streams csv or jsonl from two routes declared above `/{run_id}`;
parquet is a client-side conversion behind the new `fluksio[parquet]` extra,
so nobody pays for pyarrow who does not want dtypes kept. The long export
reads each run through `_series`, so a cached node's curve comes with it, and
`--stride` thins each series rather than the concatenation of all of them.
Two things they needed on the way: `GET /runs` takes `?since=` and `?before=`,
so a long history pages by the last row's own timestamp instead of an offset
that shifts under it; and a read that reaches no engine now says so in half a
second rather than seven, because `runs`, `flavors`, `export` and an unwatched
`status` pass `retries=0`. Everything that submits keeps them.
Concurrent runs sat at 4 whatever FLOW_MAX_CASCADES said: that setting bounds
cascades, and the run drivers read a hardcoded MAX_PARALLEL nobody could reach.
FLOW_MAX_RUNS is the knob they read now, --max-runs/--max-cascades/--max-workers
are the same three as flags on serve, and the engine says which numbers it
started with — which is the only way to tell that a settings file was read.
Events keep the run they happened in. The payload always carried it and the
persist path dropped it, so reading one run's failures meant filtering the
engine-wide list; a batch run's id reaches those events now too, since a run
has no journaled item to name itself by.
Also: a provisioner's 0 means "no deadline" rather than "cancel on the next
reconcile", and a command that reaches no engine says how to start one.
Raw cpus and gpus are a property of the machines an installation has, so a node
written against a cluster quietly stops meaning anything when the cluster is
replaced. A node says "gpu-small" instead, and what that is stored here —
editable, and read again every time the node is built, so changing the flavor
changes what the next run gets.
Memory joins the schema properly (`ram`, in MB, accepting "2G"), along with
`duration_s` for how long a node is expected to take. That one is recorded and
shown and nothing else yet: a statement for whoever is planning around the node,
not a limit — the limit is still `timeout`.
A flavor and a number for the same thing is refused, compared by value so an
editor writing the whole object back with its defaults still round-trips. A name
nothing stores is refused at the save, which covers the canvas and `fluksio
sync` at once, and deleting one a node still asks for says which node.
Four sizes are seeded on an installation that has none, and never re-seeded:
re-adding one somebody deliberately removed is an argument nobody wins.
Three faults with one root: the stored body of a code-defined node is an
import shim, and nothing that mattered was ever read from the code itself.
- The run stamp could not identify what ran. The shim imports whatever is on
disk when the worker starts, and an uncommitted tree stamps <commit>-dirty
for every run it ever produces. Run.code_digest hashes the repository's .py
files, memoized on their stat state, and it is read again when the run is
actually claimed -- so a sweep queued for hours records the code each of its
runs executed, not the code that was there when it was submitted.
- The stage cache adopted code that was too new. The fingerprint hashed the
shim, which is invariant under any edit to the imported function or anything
it calls into, so a re-run was served from cache and answered without the
outputs the edit added. It now carries the repo digest and the node's
declared ports. Every fingerprint changes once, which invalidates the
existing cache; a canvas flow has no repository and keys as before.
- An interrupted sync looked like a hand-edited canvas. The engine answers a
new-node template for a node with no stored body, and the template carries
no marker, so the drift check read "somebody edited this" and demanded
--force -- for the one state that re-running the sync is the fix for.
NodeSource.missing states the fact, and sync skips those and reuses the
bodies it read instead of asking for each one twice.
A driver script died of one slow answer: httpx.ReadTimeout out of
RunHandle.refresh() with a 30 s read timeout and no retry anywhere, which
cost a sweep 78 of its 84 runs.
- Split the timeout (5 s connect, 120 s read): a wrong URL fails at once,
and a busy engine gets longer than the slowest thing it does on purpose
(a 60 s compile, a 15 s rebuild wait).
- Retry idempotent calls three times on a transport error or 502/503/504.
503 is the engine's own "ask again" — it is what RebuildBusy answers.
- Submit carries a key the engine stores with the run, so a retry after a
timeout returns that run instead of starting a second. A sweep keys every
entry, so a half-created one recreates only what is missing.
- wait() and --follow tolerate five failed polls in a row; a 404 still stops
at once, because that is an answer rather than a gap.
- CLI says "engine not answering" and names the run still on the engine,
instead of printing a traceback.
- runs: clamp the params column to 80 characters; events() takes the
flow/since/until the endpoint already had; RunHandle.failures answers
"what killed this run" from the run's own node rows.
`POST /runs/flows/{name}` hardcoded `cause: "api"`, so every row in the
history claimed the same origin. The body now carries an optional `cause`,
closed to the values the column knows — the dashboard sends nothing and stays
"api", `fluksio run` says "cli", and the SDK client says "sdk".
Four things from a testing pass.
`fluksio serve` printed its own lines through the root logger, which has no
handler and falls back to `INFO:fluksio.cloud.connector:...` — beside uvicorn's
aligned output it reads like something went wrong. The engine's loggers and
alembic's now use uvicorn's own handler. Named rather than configuring the
root: httpx logs every portal call at INFO and none of that is printed today.
`fluksio enroll` writes its config from another process, so an engine already
serving never learned it had been paired. It now looks for one every few
seconds and dials when it appears. `load()` rather than `exists()`, or a file
that does not parse would be restarted forever.
`fluksio status` says where the installation stands with its portal — never
paired, linked, or paired and unreachable, which is the one worth acting on.
`--seed` and `--timeout` had no help text at all. Both say what they are for
now, and the docs say what a seed is actually for: recorded on the run, part of
its input digest, and passed to an input named `seed` when the flow declares
one, so the number a run is labelled with is the one the code drew from.
Two halves of the same gap: the CLI could start work but not show you any.
`fluksio status` draws the home screen's top half in a terminal — health and
what is wrong with it, every flow with its state and node count, and the
recent runs and failures under them. `--watch` keeps it there. Rich does the
drawing; it was already installed under fastapi's own CLI, and is named now
because a command depends on it.
`fluksio run` with no parameters at a terminal asks for them, one line per
declared input with its declared value in brackets — so Enter through the lot
is what running the defaults looks like, and an artifact input takes the
`@run:` spelling the engine now resolves. A scripted run is untouched: passing
any parameter, or piping the command, skips the questions, as does --defaults.
A code node in a batch run is now fingerprinted by its source, its raw
settings and the values it reads — an artifact input counting as its digest,
which is what the content addressing was always for. A run that finds the key
restores what the earlier one returned and skips the node, recorded as
`cached`. The run history is the cache: `run_node.outputs` beside the
`cache_key` the schema already had, no second store. On for code nodes, never
for the built-in and connector types that have side effects; off per node with
`@node(cache=False)` and per run with `--no-cache`.
Emissions are not replayed on a hit, so a cached training node returns its
result without redrawing its curve. Recorded in NOTEPAD.md with the two other
deliberate limits.
`fluksio run --local` boots the real app in the command's own process and
drives it through its ASGI interface behind the ordinary client, so a run no
longer needs a `serve` terminal beside it — same data directory, same history,
and the cache carries between the two. It always waits, because the engine it
starts lives exactly as long as the command.
Also: `fluksio sweep --param lr=0.1,0.01` for the product of the lists,
`run --follow` for a run's numbers as they arrive, Ctrl-C cancelling a waited
run rather than abandoning it, coloured statuses on a terminal, and `name`
made optional on the metrics endpoint so a follower can ask for every series.
Two things a local install should not have asked for.
`fluksio serve` now signs you in. Logging in to your own machine was a
formality — the password was printed by the same process that would have
checked it, and the database it authenticates against sits in the directory
the token goes into — so `serve` mints the token itself and says where it put
it. `fluksio login` is left for an engine somewhere else.
And an installation is `.fluksio` beside the code, found the way `.git` is,
rather than one `~/.fluksio` for the machine. A repository with its own venv
was already getting its own engine; it now gets its own flows, run history and
token too, instead of three repositories sharing one database and fighting
over one port. `--global` asks for the shared one, `--data-dir` still names
any directory, and when both exist the banner says which you are looking at
and how to reach the other.
The directory ignores itself from within — a `.gitignore` of `*`, the way uv
writes one into `.venv` — because it holds a credential and a database, and
neither belongs in anybody's history. The token is written mode 600. A login
an older version wrote to ~/.config/fluksio is still read, so nothing that
worked stops working.
A data scientist keeps their code where it is and decorates it: `@node`
declares a function's ports beside the function, `Flow(name, nodes=[...])`
says which of them make a flow, and `use(fn, wire=..., **settings)` rebinds
one for a single flow. `fluksio sync` uploads the document plus a generated
import shim per node, so the store still holds a complete, runnable,
git-versioned definition while the code it imports stays theirs.
`fluksio login|run|runs` and `flow.submit().wait()` are the client half, over
the run endpoints that already existed. Runs record the user repository's
commit beside the store's, so "what code produced this number" is answerable
on the side that now holds the code.
- `fluksio/sdk/`: ports, decorators, the flow builder and its checks, the shim
generator, an HTTP client and sync. Standard library only at import, so
`from fluksio import node` in a training script pulls in no engine.
- `FlowDef.origin` marks a flow code-defined; `Run.origin_commit` carries the
repository's commit; `POST /modules/refresh` retires the workers without an
install, which every sync calls — a worker holds the imported package in
memory, so an edit to it is invisible until the process goes.
- The canvas shows a generated body read-only and names the repository to edit
instead; a body edited there stops the next sync rather than being discarded.
- The worker's reporter carries inert `Port`, `node`, `use` and `Flow`, since
the shim imports a module whose first line declares them.
- `examples/myresearch` is the worked example, `make sync-example` uploads it.
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