New Features in Apache Flink 1.0.0 plus recent Performance Benchmarks

Tentative schedule and topics:

6pm-6:30pm - Door open and socialize

6:30pm-8pm - Talks

Abstracts

New Features in Apache Flink 1.0.0

Kostas Tzoumas from data Artisans will join us to present some of the new features in Apache Flink 1.0.0. We'll also discuss what's on the roadmap for Apache Flink in the coming months.

Extending the Yahoo Streaming benchmark

Jamie Grier from data Artisans will give an overview of the recent benchmarking he did with Apache Flink using a variation of the recently published Yahoo! streaming benchmark. He has written about this at http://data-artisans.com/extending-the-yahoo-streaming-benchmark/ .

Speaker Bios

Kostas Tzoumas is a PMC and committer at Apache Flink, and co-founder and CEO of data Artisans. Before founding data Artisans, Kostas was a postdoctoral researcher at TU Berlin and received a PhD in Computer Science from Aalborg University

Jamie Grier is Director of Applications Engineering at data Artisans. Before joining data Artisans he was working on streaming analytics at Twitter and has been involved in various kinds of stream processing for about a decade.