September 2018 New York Apache Flink Meetup (Strata)

Join data Artisans and your fellow Apache Flink community members in our New York City meetup near Strata. Finger foods and drinks will be provided. We'll be discussing Fabian Hueske's Strata talk about SQL on Apache Flink, the recent Flink Forward 2018 conference in Berlin, and what's new with Apache Flink.

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Fabian's talk:

Why and how to leverage the power and simplicity of SQL on Apache Flink

Everybody working with data knows SQL. Apache Flink provides SQL support for querying and processing batch and streaming data. Flink’s SQL support powers large-scale production systems at Alibaba, Huawei, and Uber. Based on Flink SQL, these companies have built systems for their internal users as well as publicly offered services for paying customers. Fabian will discuss why you should and how you can (not being Alibaba or Uber) leverage the simplicity and power of SQL on Flink.

Fabian will start exploring the use cases that Flink SQL was designed for and present some real-world problems that it can solve. In particular, he’ll explain why unified batch and stream processing is important and what it means to run SQL queries on streams of data.

After discussing why you should use Flink SQL, Fabian will show how to leverage its full potential. Since end of last year, the Flink community is working on a service that integrates a query interface, (external) table catalogs, and result serving functionality for static, appending, and updating result sets. He'll discuss the design and features of this query service and how it enables exploratory batch and streaming queries, ETL pipelines, and live updating query results that serve applications, such as real-time dashboards.

Fabian Hueske is a committer and PMC member of the Apache Flink project. He was one of the three original authors of the Stratosphere research system, from which Apache Flink was forked in 2014. Fabian is a cofounder of data Artisans, a Berlin-based startup devoted to fostering Flink, where he works as a software engineer and contributes to Apache Flink. He holds a PhD in computer science from TU Berlin and is currently spending a lot of his time writing a book, Stream Processing with Apache Flink.

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Among what's new: dA Platform Streaming Ledger. From the recent writeup in Silicon Angle:

"Analyst Holger Mueller of Constellation Research Inc. acknowledged the magnitude of the problem data Artisans is trying to solve, saying that if the new Streaming Ledger is working and reliable, then it is a breakthrough of 'historic proportions' because the ACID capabilities of databases are critical for business applications."

Come learn about the big deal behind Flink, SQL, and ACID transactions in stream processing. Come discuss stream processing with us!