apache/beam
Apache Beam is a unified programming model for Batch and Streaming data processing.
Is apache/beam beginner-friendly?
In the last 30 days, apache/beam merged 236 of 399 pull requests from outside contributors, and its maintainers usually reply within 1 day. 14 beginner-friendly issues are open now.
- Stars
- 8.7k
- Forks
- 4.8k
- Open beginner issues
- 14
- Indexed issues
- 4k
- Avg merge
- 2d 9h
- Merged PRs (30d)
- 368
- Dominant language
- Java
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Last GitHub push
- Nov 7, 2026
- Latest indexed
- Sep 14, 2026
- Contributing guide
- Contributing guide
- Code of conduct
- Code of conduct
- Beginner labels
- good first issue
How to contribute to apache/beam
- Read the contributing guide first: it says how the maintainers want changes proposed, tested and reviewed.
- Read its code of conduct: it covers issues and pull requests as well as chat.
- Your contributions will be published under the project's Apache-2.0 license.
- Pick one of the 14 open beginner-friendly issues below and comment that you want to work on it before you start.
Issues somebody may already be working on are listed last. List everything by date
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 45/100
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[Bug]: Dataflow streaming on SDK 2.74+ (Windmill DirectPath on by default) causes frequent UnboundedSource reader invalidations, re-processing and CPU saturationMay be free again A pull request for this issue was closed without being merged. Openawaiting triage bug dataflow io java P2
Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 15/100
apache/beam#41108 · 5 comments ·
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io P2 python yaml
Difficulty 3/5 Half a day Newbie friendliness 70/100
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awaiting triage bug P2 python yaml
Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100
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awaiting triage bug io P2 yaml
Difficulty 3/5 Half a day Newbie friendliness 70/100
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Performance Regression or Improvement: test_cloudml_benchmark_criteo_10GB-runtime_sec:runtime_secOpenawaiting triage perf-alert
Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100
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awaiting triage bug P2 python spark
Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 65/100
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awaiting triage bug P2 python
Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100
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awaiting triage bug java P2
Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100
apache/beam#40994 · 1 comment ·
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 20/100
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bug flaky_test P1 workflow_id: 235658982
Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100
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bug flaky_test P1 workflow_id: 69423704
Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100
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[Feature Request]: Allow non-identifier column names in Python RowMay be free again @schizophrenicmaniac claimed this 22 days ago, and no pull request is open. Opennew feature P2
Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100
apache/beam#40698 · 3 comments ·
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awaiting triage perf-alert
Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100
apache/beam#40643 · 1 comment ·
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awaiting triage perf-alert
Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 15/100
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[Feature Request]: Support non-default Google Cloud universe domains (GOOGLE_CLOUD_UNIVERSE_DOMAIN)May be free again @shunping claimed this 29 days ago, and no pull request is open. Opengo java new feature P2 python
apache/beam#40569 · 1 assignee ·
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awaiting triage java new feature P2
Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 28/100
apache/beam#40556 · 3 comments ·
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[Feature Request]: Honor --quota_project_id in Python GCS/Pub/Sub IO and the Java-backed BigQuery STORAGE_WRITE_API pathMay be free again @shahar1 claimed this 29 days ago, and no pull request is open. Opendataflow io new feature P2 python
apache/beam#40555 · 2 comments · 1 assignee ·
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awaiting triage P2 task
Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100
apache/beam#40454 · 1 comment ·
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P3 spark
Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100
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[Feature Request]: Add support for Python 3.15May be free again @jrmccluskey claimed this 29 days ago, and no pull request is open. Opennew feature P2 python
Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 65/100
apache/beam#40249 · 1 comment · 1 assignee ·
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awaiting triage infra new feature P2
Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100
apache/beam#40214 · 2 comments ·
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awaiting triage perf-alert
Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100
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[Feature Request]: Allow ADK Model Handler to use local modelsMay be free again @damccorm claimed this 54 days ago, and no pull request is open. Opennew feature P2 python
apache/beam#40179 · 1 assignee ·
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[Bug]: Go SDK row coder encodes negative INT32 schema fields as 10 byte varints that Java and Python rejectMay be free again @Eliaaazzz claimed this 55 days ago, and no pull request is open. Opengo P2
apache/beam#40159 · 2 comments · 1 assignee ·
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[Feature Request]: Implement JsonIO.read() / readRows() for the Java SDKMay be free again @nitinware claimed this 63 days ago, and no pull request is open. Openio java new feature P2
apache/beam#40086 · 1 comment · 1 assignee ·
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awaiting triage perf-alert
Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100
apache/beam#40067 · 1 comment ·
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[Feature Request]: Add read() support to Java ClickHouseIO (currently write-only)May be free again @nitinware claimed this 65 days ago, and no pull request is open. Openio java new feature P2
apache/beam#40048 · 1 comment · 1 assignee ·
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[Feature Request]: Add Chroma vector database ingestion connector for RAG pipelinesMay be free again @nitinware claimed this 65 days ago, and no pull request is open. Openio new feature P2 python
apache/beam#40047 · 1 comment · 1 assignee ·
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awaiting triage perf-alert
Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100
apache/beam#40005 · 3 comments ·
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100
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[Bug]: Left frame no longer showing in JavadocMay be free again @nitinware claimed this 65 days ago, and no pull request is open. Openbug java P3 website
apache/beam#39895 · 3 comments · 1 assignee ·
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100
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[Feature Request]: Bound PGBKCVOperation precombine table by in-memory size, not key countMay be free again A pull request for this issue was closed without being merged. OpenP3
Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100
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[Task][prism]: Separate management logs from pipeline logs, with rolling log filesMay be free again @moawnallah claimed this 93 days ago, and no pull request is open. Opengo P2 prism task
apache/beam#39709 · 1 comment · 1 assignee ·
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[Task]: Go SDK portable logical type supportMay be free again @Eliaaazzz claimed this 55 days ago, and no pull request is open. Opengo good first issue P2 task
apache/beam#39684 · 5 comments · 3 assignees ·
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100
apache/beam#39633 · 1 comment ·
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 68/100
apache/beam#39624 · 2 reactions ·
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awaiting triage infra P2 python task
Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 70/100
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[Task]: Set the Beam user agent on the Python boto3 S3 clientMay be free again @goanpeca claimed this 103 days ago, and no pull request is open. OpenP3
apache/beam#39573 · 1 comment · 1 assignee ·
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100
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