Practical Introduction to Apache Flink (with code + demos)

Talk: Please join the 2nd Apache Flink (http://flink.apache.org/) meetup in Washington DC Area hosted and sponsored by Capital One (https://www.capitalone.com/). Slim Baltagi (Capital One), Sameer Wadkar (Axiomine) and Suneel Marthi (Red Hat) will be giving you a practical introduction to Batch and Real-Time Stream Processing using Apache Flink ( code and demos included).

In this talk, you will learn in more details about:

• How to setup and configure your Flink environment and tools?

• How to build your first Flink application (Batch Processing) locally and deploy it in a cluster?

• How to build your first Flink application (Stream Processing) locally and deploy it in a cluster?

Speakers Bios:

• Slim Baltagi (https://www.linkedin.com/in/slimbaltagi) is a Director of Big Data engineering at Capital One. He enjoys evangelizing Big Data technologies by speaking at Big Data events and actively maintaining a Big Data Knowledge Base (http://www.sparkbigdata.com/). With some fellow squirrels, Slim also runs the Chicago Apache Flink Meetup and the Washington DC Area Apache Flink Meetup.

• Sameer Wadkar (https://www.linkedin.com/pub/sameer-wadkar/2/41/603) is a Big Data Architect/Data Scientist at Axiomine and and co-organizer of the Washington DC Area Apache Flink Meetup. He is also author of Pro Apache Hadoop, open source contributor. Sameer actively maintains his blog on Big Data (http://www.bigsynapse.com/).

• Suneel Marthi (https://www.linkedin.com/pub/suneel-marthi/0/b37/138)is Senior Principal Software Engineer, Office of Technology at Red Hat and co-organizer of the Washington DC Area Apache Flink Meetup. Suneel is also a Committer, PMC member and VP of the Apache Mahout Machine Learning project. Suneel contributes to multiple open source projects and actively maintains his github account (https://github.com/smarthi).

Schedule:

5:30 pm - 5:55 pm : Networking, pizza and drinks

5:55 pm - 6:00 pm: Introduction by Jeff Theobald

6:00 pm - 6:40 pm: Part I: Setup, configuration of your Flink environment & tools (30 mn + 10 mn Q&A). By Slim Baltagi

6:40pm – 7:20 pm : Part II: Building your first Flink application (DataSet API) locally and deploying it in a cluster (30 mn + 10 mn Q&A). By Sameer Wadkar

7:20 pm - 8:00 pm: Part III: Building your first Flink application (DataStream API) locally and deploying it in a cluster (30 mn + 10 mn Q&A). By Suneel Marthi

Sponsor:

Capital One (https://www.capitalone.com/)

Directions:

Note - Park in the parking garage next to the 8020 Towers Crescent Drive building, 3rd floor and bring your parking ticket into the event. It will be validated at the event.

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