Prateek Maheshwari

@bharathkk Can you clarify? What do we need to address about partition count monitor and chooser for side inputs?

@bharathkk re: 1, good point about partition count monitor, let me see if / how we can fix that. re: 2, I thought we moved side inputs out of the...

@shanthoosh had a question about whether side inputs are part of the job model and will be accounted for in the partition count expansion check. This PR should ensure that...

@isolis can you please push another dummy commit to verify that this builds on CI machines.

@isolis Some of the compile tasks log messages like this: ``` > Task :samza-hdfs_2.11:compileScala Pruning sources from previous analysis, due to incompatible CompileSetup. ``` Are these harmless?

@fredji97 Doesn't seem like the deploy directory be a part of this commit. Are you moving a clean copy or a local copy?

@fredji97 also, have you tried moving the files in the existing hello-samza repo to this repo such that it preserves git history? If not, we should try that first before...