Create report on pangeo-forge bakery vs. regular rechunking workflow

[amsnyder]

• How does the workflow for each compare? (standardization, level of effort, format, etc.)
• What cloud resources will we be using to deploy the bakery? (this can help us estimate cost)
• What code/repos do we need to build this? How will we need to adapt/modify each of these?

[amsnyder]

pangeo-forge bakery has standardized template for use to fill in to rechunk a dataset

[thodson-usgs]

In principle, the pangeo-forge tooling seems very useful if we can jump the starting hurdle.
I'm working on a recipe to process SSEBOP data for @kjdoore.
The recipe was easy but I'm still working through issues

[thodson-usgs]

Still stuck, so I create a recipe PR to pangeo-forge. I'll follow up in their coordination meeting on Monday.

[thodson-usgs]

The SSEBOP recipe seems to be working now, thanks to some assistance from the pangeo-forge community.

All-in-all the recipes are fairly straightforward. Debugging Beam pipelines was challenging but I suspect that will get easier with time.

Pros: community of experts willing to help (esp if we contribute); recipes run a variety of "runners"; easier to manage large projects

Cons: Beam is harder to use than a notebook; Pangeo-forge documentation is incomplete; may create some technical lock-in or necessitate external support