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Robert Metzger@rmetzger_

Berlin Flink MeetupNovember 29, 2016

Introduction and

Flink Community Update

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 & Beerby data Artisans

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2016 Community UpdateWhat happened since May

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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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Intro to Flink Book

Get your free copy: https://www.mapr.com/introduction-to-apache-flink

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

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

Flink on Amazon EMR 5.1.0

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

Flink Forward

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Flink Forward 2016

FF Highlights: Bouygues

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FF Highlights: Bouygues

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FF Highlights: Alibaba

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Flink Forward 2016

• 350 participants• 42 technical sessions• 1000 bottles of clubmate, 177

Bratwürste

What’s next? Flink Forward 2017 in San Francisco

… and Berlin

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Quantifying the Community

Lets look at some numbers

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Global Meetup Community

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HomeworkWhat can you do

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Participate in the Flink user survey

http://bit.do/FlinkUserSurvey

Check out our upcoming events page

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http://data-artisans.com/about/events/

We are hiring!data-artisans.com/careers