feat(rayapp) Anyscale CLI pr0 add tailWriter with lazy double-buffer implementation

[elliot-barn]

Extract tailWriter into its own file with a bytes.Buffer-based double-buffer design. Initial memory footprint is near zero (no upfront 1MB allocation); buffers grow lazily as data is written.

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Summary of Changes

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This pull request introduces a new tailWriter component to the rayapp package. This utility is designed to efficiently retain only the most recent N bytes of data written to it, employing a lazy double-buffer mechanism. This approach optimizes memory usage by avoiding large upfront allocations and dynamically growing buffers as data is received, ensuring that the system only stores relevant trailing data. Comprehensive unit tests are included to validate its functionality across various use cases.

Highlights

• New tailWriter Utility: Introduced a new tailWriter utility within the rayapp package, designed to efficiently store only the most recent N bytes written to it.
• Lazy Double-Buffer Implementation: The tailWriter utilizes a lazy double-buffer strategy with bytes.Buffer instances. This design ensures minimal initial memory footprint as buffers grow dynamically only when data is written, avoiding upfront large allocations.
• Efficient Tail Management: The implementation includes logic to handle writes that exceed the specified limit, ensuring that only the trailing limit bytes are retained. A rotation mechanism swaps active and stale buffers to manage the data flow efficiently.
• Comprehensive Unit Tests: Accompanying the new utility, a dedicated test file tail_writer_test.go has been added, covering various scenarios including writes under, at, and over the limit, multiple writes, and empty writes, ensuring the robustness of the tailWriter.

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Changelog

• rayapp/tail_writer.go
  • Added new file tail_writer.go containing the tailWriter struct and its methods (newTailWriter, Write, rotate, String).
• rayapp/tail_writer_test.go
  • Added new file tail_writer_test.go with unit tests for the tailWriter functionality, covering various write scenarios and edge cases.

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Code Review

The pull request introduces a tailWriter with a lazy double-buffer implementation, which is a well-designed approach for keeping a limited tail of bytes. The implementation correctly leverages bytes.Buffer's lazy growth and Reset functionality. The provided tests cover various scenarios and demonstrate the intended behavior. My main feedback concerns the handling of non-positive limits in the newTailWriter function, which could lead to unexpected behavior.

[gemini-code-assist]

The newTailWriter function does not validate the limit parameter. If limit is 0 or negative, the tailWriter's behavior becomes problematic. A negative limit will cause a panic in the Write method when slicing p[n-w.limit:] if n-w.limit exceeds the length of p. A limit of 0 would result in the tailWriter always returning an empty string from String() while still processing writes, which is inefficient and likely not the desired behavior. It's best to enforce a positive limit to ensure the component functions as expected and prevent runtime errors.

func newTailWriter(limit int) *tailWriter {
	if limit <= 0 {
		limit = 1 // Ensure a positive limit to prevent panics and ensure meaningful tailing.
	}
	return &tailWriter{
		limit: limit,
		half:  limit / 2,
	}
}

[aslonnie]

maybe add a mutex? this Write is not concurrency safe, and it is going to be taking writes from both stderr and stdout at the same time I think.

[aslonnie]

nit: let's always use a group:

import (
   "bytes"
)