Making Sense of Apache Flink: A Fearless Introduction

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Today's consumers have come to expect timely and accurate information from the companies they do business with. Whether it's being alerted that someone just used your credit card to rent a car in Prague, or checking on the balance of your mobile data plan, it's not good enough to learn about yesterday's information today.

Apache Flink is a battle-hardened stream processor widely used for demanding applications like these. Its performance and robustness are the result of a handful of core design principles: a shared-nothing architecture with local state, event-time processing, and state snapshots (for recovery). Flink is sometimes described as being complex and difficult to learn, but it's actually rather simple, and this talk will supply the background you need to approach Flink with confidence.

Big Data Bellevue Meetup was created by Intelius and takes place in downtown Bellevue. Intelius provides the only centralized service for delivering comprehensive information about people, places, organizations, and their connection to each other. Our state-of-the-art big data technology platform is utilized across a wide range of industries to implement specific solutions.

On the third Thursday of each month, we invite an industry leader in Big Data to give a presentation followed by a lively discussion on big data technology and its impact on business world. Past speakers include researchers from the University of Washington, as well as senior members of various companies, such as Microsoft, Amazon, eBay, IBM, MapR and inome.

Confluent will provide pizza, and Microsoft graciously provides free drinks!