These slides were presented at the 14. Apache Flink Meetup at Zaladon Tech in Berlin.

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