Apache Flink x Pulsar Virtual Meetup: Streaming SQL at Uber and Facebook

We are thrilled to announce the first-ever Apache Flink x Pulsar meetup! Please join us for a two-day virtual event co-hosted by Uber, Ververica, and StreamNative.

You will learn about how Uber and Facebook build and optimize their streaming SQL-based applications for unified processing. Additionally, speakers from Ververica and StreamNative will bring you up to date about the latest collaboration between the Flink and Pulsar communities on an integrated end-to-end streaming query solution for real-time data ingestion and analysis.

Please RSVP on Zoom to join the meetup: https://streamnative.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_RQ2yCrf2Q4SGFX-1a7rQhA

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Agenda (PDT)

Tuesday, March 16th
11:00am - 11:05am - Opening - Girish Galiga (Uber)
11:05am - 11:35am - Streaming SQL at Uber (with Q&A) - Zhenqiu Huang & Zhongting Hu (Uber)
11:35am - 12:05pm - When Flink SQL Meets Apache Pulsar in StreamNative Cloud (with Q&A) - Neng Lu (StreamNative)
12:05pm - 12:30pm - Additional Q&A with speakers and networking

Wednesday, March 17th
11:00am - 11:30am - Streaming SQL at Facebook (with Q&A) - Shuyi Chen (Facebook)
11:30am - 12:00pm - Select Star: Flink SQL for Pulsar Folks (with Q&A) - Marta Paes (Ververica)
12:00pm - 12:30pm - Additional Q&A with speakers and networking

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Panel Information

Talk: Streaming SQL at Uber - Zhenqiu Huang Software Engineer at Uber,
Zhongting Hu Software Engineer at Uber

AthenaX is the self service Streaming SQL platform at Uber. It has been using Flink SQL for unified processing for more than 3 years. To improve the usability of the platform and productivity of our users, we initialized the effort of running Presto SQL in AthenaX. In the talk, we will present our experience and the initial evaluation of building Streaming applications with Presto SQL and our platform improvements in AthenaX.

Talk: When Flink SQL Meets Apache Pulsar in StreamNative Cloud - Neng Lu, Software Engineer at StreamNative

Flink SQL provides an intuitive abstraction for data analysts to explore large-scale real-time data since its first release in Flink 1.1.0. Apache Pulsar is the new norm for cloud-native messaging and streaming. As the industry goes towards cloud-native, there's a growing need of combining these two successful Apache projects in the cloud to provide an integrated end-to-end streaming query solution for real-time data ingestion and analysis.
In this talk, we will talk about how StreamNative combines Flink SQL and Apache Pulsar in a cloud-native way to help facilitate real-time data analytics and improve efficiency by orders of magnitude for customers.

Talk: Streaming SQL at Facebook - Shuyi Chen, Software Engineer at Facebook

SQL based stream processing has been adopted in Facebook since 2014 and previous effort has been largely focused on streaming alone. With the increasing business need for unified stream/batch processing in Facebook, we are rebuilding our SQL stream processing engine towards unified processing.
In this talk, we will talk about Facebook’s new SQL stream processing platform. We will cover the high level architecture of the platform. Specifically, we will talk about the streaming SQL extension we support on top of Presto SQL, and the high performance C++ native evaluation engine that are shared across stream processing, Presto & Spark.

Talk: Select Star: Flink SQL for Pulsar Folks - Marta Paes, Developer Advocate at Ververica

SQL is eating the world (again!), and stream processing is no exception. As Flink SQL evolves to power business-critical applications at companies like Yelp, Airbnb or Uber, the Flink and Pulsar communities have been working in close collaboration to bring you the best of both worlds. But where do we stand today? In this talk, we’ll get you up to speed with the latest in streaming SQL with Flink and demo how you can integrate with Apache Pulsar to build unified, elastic data processing pipelines.