Apache Flink

Flink Community Update

April 2015

Robert Metzger

rmetzger@apache.org

Flink Community Updates

• What happened in the Flink community?

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What happened?• Flink 0.9-milestone1 has been released

• Storm compatibility layer pull request

• Interactive Scala Shell

• Many talks– ApacheCon in Texas

– Hadoop Summit in Brussels (two talks)

– Netherlands Hadoop User Group

– Stockholm Hadoop User Group

• Stockholm Flink Meetup group started!

• Interested in collaborating:– Apache Ignite, Zeppelin, BigTop

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Now in master (0.9-SNAPSHOT)

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• Python API

• Enhanced

documentation

• A lot of stability

improvements (we’re

getting closer to 0.9)

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Apache Flink got 3 Google Summer of Code

students accepted:• Distributed Pattern Matching for Apache Flink

• Exact and Approximate Statistics for Data

Streams and Windows in Flink

• Apache Flink: Asynchronous Iterations and

Updates

Flink on the Web

• Fabian Hueske on Apache Flink Framework [1]

• ApacheCon slides [2]

• Hadoop Summit Streaming [3]

• Hadoop Summit: Analytics with Flink [4]

[1] http://www.infoq.com/news/2015/04/hueske-apache-

flink?utm_campaign=infoq_content&utm_source=infoq&utm_medium=feed&utm_term=global

[2] http://www.slideshare.net/fhueske/apache-flink

[3] http://www.slideshare.net/GyulaFra/flink-streaming-hadoopsummit

[4] http://www.slideshare.net/AljoschaKrettek/data-analysis-with-apache-flink-hadoop-summit-2015

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Happy Users on Twitter

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Happy Users on Twitter

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GitHub stats

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Apache Flink Workshop in June

• Colocated with Berlin Buzzwords

• in Google’s Berlin Office

• Hands on programming tutorials & exercises with the Flinkcommitters

• Sign up, its free : http://www.meetup.com/Apache-Flink-Meetup/events/220557545/

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Flink Forward registration & call

for abstracts is open now

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• 12/13 October 2015

• Kulturbrauerei Berlin