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.