An update on developments in Flink: new features, users, and the growing community.

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Robert Metzger
@rmetzger_
Berlin Flink Meetup
November 29, 2016
Introduction
and
Flink Community Update

2. Agenda for tonight
 Welcome & Flink Community Update
By Kostas Tzoumas and Robert Metzger, data Artisans
 A look at Apache Flink 1.2
By Stefan Richter, data Artisans
 Real-time analytics as a service at King
by Gyula Fóra, King
 Pizza & Beer
by data Artisans
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3. 2016 Community Update
What happened since May
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4. Flink developer community
 We are approaching the 1.2 release
 FLIP-6 effort ongoing for 1.3 release
• Rework of the cluster deployment and
resource allocation model
 Introduction of FLIPs:
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/
FLINK/Flink+Improvement+Proposals
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5. Intro to Flink Book
 Get your free copy:
https://www.mapr.com/introduction-to-apache-flink
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6. data Artisans Platform
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• Launched at Strata NYC in
September
• The platform provides a private
fork of Apache Flink with 24x7
enterprise support from data
Artisans

7. More vendors offer Flink
https://www.lightbend.com/blog/introducing-lightbend-fast-data-platform
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• Flink is part of Lightbend’s Fast Data platform

8. Flink on Amazon EMR 5.1.0
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https://aws.amazon.com/de/blogs/big-data/use-apache-flink-on-amazon-emr/

9. Flink Forward

10. Flink Forward 2016
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11. FF Highlights: Bouygues
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12. FF Highlights: Bouygues
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13. FF Highlights: Alibaba
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14. Flink Forward 2016
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• 350 participants
• 42 technical sessions
• 1000 bottles of clubmate, 177 Bratwürste

15. What’s next?
 Flink Forward 2017 in San Francisco
 … and Berlin
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16. Quantifying the Community
Lets look at some numbers
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17. Global Meetup Community
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 Currently 16k members in meetup groups
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19. Homework
What can you do
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20. Participate in the Flink user survey
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http://bit.do/FlinkUserSurvey

21. Check out our upcoming events page
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http://data-artisans.com/about/events/

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