Apache Flink is an open source platform for distributed stream and batch data processing. It provides two APIs - a DataStream API for real-time streaming and a DataSet API for batch processing. The document introduces Flink's core concepts like sources, sinks, transformations, and windows. It also provides instructions on setting up a Flink project and describes some use cases like processing Twitter feeds. Additional resources like tutorials, documentation and mailing lists are referenced to help users get started with Flink.