These slides contain the opening remarks and talk #2 from the first Seattle Apache Flink meetup which had the following talks. Date: Jan 17th, 2018, Wednesday Location: Bellevue, WA OPENING REMARKS (~5min) TALK #1 (~45min) Haitao Wang, Senior Staff Engineer at Alibaba, will give a presentation on large-scale streaming processing with Flink and Flink SQL at Alibaba and several internal use cases. See separate Slideshare: https://www.slideshare.net/dataArtisans/201801-seattle-apache-flink-meetup-talk-1-apache-flink-at-alibaba/edit TALK #2 (~30min) Bowen Li will talk about details of future meetup planning and logistics. He will also present how OfferUp, the largest mobile marketplace in the U.S., does large-scale stream processing with Flink to better serve local buyers and sellers, and what they have contributed to Flink's DataStream APIs, state backends, metrics system, and connectors. We may also talk about what's new in Flink 1.4 and how users can leverage these new features, and what Flink 1.5 would look like and what's users vision on Flink. SPONSOR: OfferUp Attendees included: Alibaba Group, OfferUp, Uber, Amazon Web Services, Google, Microsoft, Zions Bank, Gridpoint, Dell/EMC, NeoPrime, Nordstrom, Snowflake, Tableau, Oracle, Expedia, Grab, Snapchat, and many others.