Apache Flink: What, How, Why, Who, Where?

Please join us for an exciting evening to learn more about Apache Flink (http://flink.apache.org) from Slim Baltagi, Director of Big Data engineering at Capital One; founder and organizer of the Apache Flink meetups in Chicago, New York City (NYC), Washington DC Area, Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) Area and also co-organizer of the Boston, Paris-France, Sao Paulo-Brazil and Flink meetups.

Sponsors:

• Bloomberg LP (http://www.bloomberg.com)is providing location for the event, pizza and beer

• Capital One (http://www.capitalone.com)is providing transportation from Chicago and accommodation in NYC for the speaker

Schedule:

6:00 pm - 6:30 pm : Networking, pizza and drinks

6:30 pm – 7:30 pm : Talk

Talk description: This introductory level talk is about Apache Flink: a multi-purpose Big Data analytics framework leading a movement towards the unification of batch and stream processing in the open source.

With the many technical innovations it brings along with its unique vision and philosophy, it is considered the 4 G (4th Generation) of Big Data Analytics frameworks providing the only hybrid (Real-Time Streaming + Batch) open source distributed data processing engine supporting many use cases: batch, streaming, relational queries, machine learning and graph processing.

In this talk, you will learn about:

1. What is Apache Flink stack and how it fits into the Big Data ecosystem?

2. How Apache Flink integrates with Hadoop and other open source tools for data input and output as well as deployment?

3. Why Apache Flink is an alternative to Apache Hadoop MapReduce, Apache Storm and Apache Spark.

4. Who is using Apache Flink?

5. Where to learn more about Apache Flink?

Bio: Slim Baltagi (https://www.linkedin.com/in/slimbaltagi)is currently director of Big Data engineering at Capital One. He has over 18 years of IT and business experience and has spent the last 5 years of his life hadooping and more recently sparking and flinking! He enjoys evangelizing about Big Data technologies and maintaining a Big Data Knowledge Base (http://www.sparkbigdata.com/): Hadoop, Spark, Flink...He is also founder and organizer of the Apache Flink meetups in Chicago, New York City (NYC), Washington DC Area, Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) Area and also co-organizer of the Paris and Boston Flink meetups.