The Rise of Apache Flink and Stream Processing

Apache Flink is the most popular and widely adopted streaming processing framework, powering real time stream event computations at extremely large scale in companies like Uber, Lyft, AWS, Alibaba, Pinterest, Splunk, Yelp, etc.

In this talk, we will go over use cases and basic (yet hard to achieve!) requirements of stream processing, and how Flink fills the gaps and stands out with some of its unique core building blocks, like pipelined execution, native event time support, state support, and fault tolerance.

We will also take a look at how Flink is going beyond stream processing into areas like unified data processing, enterprise intergration, AI/machine learning (especially online ML), and serverless computation, and how Flink fits with its distinct value.

SPEAKER: Bowen Li
SPEAKER BIO: Bowen is a committer of Apache Flink, senior engineer at Alibaba, and host of Seattle Flink Meetup.

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