This document provides a community update from Robert Metzger about Apache Flink activities from January to May 2016. Key events include the release of Apache Flink 1.0.0 in March, the announcement of Flink Forward 2016, new connectors being released, and work beginning on Flink 1.1 including documentation improvements and new features. Upcoming talks promoting Flink at various conferences are also listed.

1. Community Update
May 2016
Robert Metzger
@rmetzger_
rmetzger@apache.org
Berlin Apache Flink Meetup,
May 24, 2016

2. May Community Update
What happened since January
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3. What happened in February?
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 flink-neo4j connector published
 Release 1.0 preparation

4. What happened in March?
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 Apache Flink 1.0.0
 Flink Forward 2016 announced
 Flink-htm announced: “Distributed,
streaming anomaly detection and
prediction with HTM in Apache Flink”
 Greg Hogan has been added as a
committer

5. What happened in April?
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 Apache Ignite Sink for Flink available
 Flink in Homebrew (a package manager of
OS X)
 Apache Mahout released 0.12.0 with
Samsara for Flink

6. What happened in May?
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 Flink packaging available in Apache Bigtop
 First signs for Flink 1.1 on the horizon
 Flink-Cascading runner for Cascading 3.1
released
 Community started discussing component
maintainer model
 Flink security proposal published to ML
 First dynamic scaling pull request

7. Now merged to master (1.1-SNAPSOT)
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 Many commits: post-1.0 fixes, tweaks, …
 Documentation enhancements: Concepts,
Watermarks, Event Time
 Gelly graph generators
 Scala CEP API
 Support for embedded streaming SQL (projection,
filter, union) + SQL for DataSet programs
 Initial implementation of Amazon Kinesis
connector
 Ground work for new metrics system (JMX, other
reporters)

8. Reading List
 Analyzing Streaming Data with SQL using Apache Flink [1]
 RBEA: Scalable Real-Time Analytics at King [2]
 Why Apache Beam? A Google Perspective [3]
 Why Apache Beam? A data Artisans perspective [4]
 Introducing Complex Event Processing (CEP) with Apache
Flink [5]
 Extending the Yahoo! Streaming Benchmark and Winning
Twitter Hack-Week with Apache Flink [6]
 Applying the Kappa architecture in the telco industry [7]
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1. http://flink.apache.org/blog/
2. https://techblog.king.com/rbea-scalable-real-time-analytics-king/
3. https://cloud.google.com/blog/big-data/2016/05/why-apache-beam-a-google-perspective
4. http://data-artisans.com/why-apache-beam/
5. http://flink.apache.org/news/2016/04/06/cep-monitoring.html
6. http://data-artisans.com/extending-the-yahoo-streaming-benchmark/
7. https://www.oreilly.com/ideas/applying-the-kappa-architecture-in-the-telco-industry

9. Upcoming talks
 Strata London (June 1-3)
 Berlin Buzzwords (June 5-7)
• Getting started with Stream Processing on Apache Flink
(Workshop)
• Real-time analytics with Flink and Druid
• A Data Streaming Architecture with Apache Flink
• The Stream Processor as a Database: Building Online
Applications directly on Streams with Apache Flink and Apache
Kafka
• Measuring 2.0 – Building the next generation webanalytics
solution using Apache Flink (bol.com)
 Hadoop Summit San Jose (June 28-30)
• Blink−Improved Runtime for Flink and its Application in Alibaba
Search
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10. Powered by Flink
 https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLINK/Powered+by+Flink
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11. Global Meetup Community
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 More than 10k meetup group members
worldwide (In Jan, we had ~6k)

12. Github stats
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 1300+ Stars
+400

13. Flink Forward 2016, Berlin
Submission deadline: June 30, 2016
Early bird deadline: July 15, 2016
www.flink-forward.org

14. We are hiring!
data-artisans.com/careers