Flink Meetup #6 Hot Topics in Dataflow, Flink's Runtime & Community Update

On this months Apache Flink (https://flink.apache.org/) Meetup we welcome Frank McSherry (http://www.frankmcsherry.org/) who will give a talk about the Hot Topics in Dataflow. On top of that Ufuk Celebi will give an overview of Flink's Runtime and Robert Metzger will give his monthly community update.

After the talks, we will have a networking session with drinks sponsored by data Artisans (http://data-artisans.com/) and there's the opportunity to work on an interesting data problem you're facing with Flink committers.

Talks

1. Community Update
   Robert Metzger, committer

2. Flink's Runtime
   Ufuk Celebi, committer

Ufuk will give an overview of Flink's runtime. If you are interested in how Flink runs your programs and what happens internally, this talk is for you. After the talk, you will have a deeper understanding of Flink's low-level internals and how you can tweak your programs to make the most out of it.

3. Hot Topics in Dataflow
   Frank McSherry

Frank will survey some recent research work (from his experience with the Naiad project) on extended dataflow models, including those integrating streaming and iterative computation. The material will not be specific to Flink, but should be interesting for anyone looking to push the boundaries of dataflow computation.

Bring your data

After the talks, while having a drink there's an opportunity to work together with Flink committers on an interesting data problem you are facing.
Please contact Kostas Tzoumas at
kostas@data-artisans.com if you are interested in taking part in this!