Flink Meetup #5 The State of Flink and the Road Ahead + Community Update

Apache Flink committer Robert Metzger will give his monthly update on the Flink Community, followed by a talk about the state of Flink today and the road that lies ahead.

After the talks, we will have a networking session with drinks sponsored by data Artisans (http://data-artisans.com).

Talks:

1. Flink Community Update

Robert Metzger

Robert will get you up to speed in what's happening in the Flink Community.

2. The State of Flink and the Road Ahead

In April 2014, Flink (back then called Stratosphere) was proposed as an incubating project to the Apache Software Foundation. Nine months later, Flink graduated to an Apache top-level project. To commemorate one year of Flink:

(1) We first take a trip down memory lane and discuss what the Flink community has built during the last year in the Apache Software Foundation.

(2) We then discuss the roadmap for the Flink project for 2015 and current work in progress features, such as the runtime refactoring to include intermediate results and streaming fault tolerance.

(3) Finally, we discuss the greater vision and goals of the Flink project and how the current roadmap leads to realizing this vision.

After the talks, we will have a networking session with drinks sponsored by data Artisans (http://data-artisans.com).