7th Apache Flink Munich Meetup: Flink at Airbus & Stateful Functions

After the summer break and Flink Forward Europe, we are happy to announce the next Apache Flink meetup in Munich on November 27 hosted by MaibornWolff. Let’s get together for the exciting talk by Airbus and learn more about Stateful Functions over pizza & beer!

Agenda:

6:30 pm - Kick-off with food & drinks and a welcome note by the host
7:00 pm - Talk #1: "Airbus makes more of the sky with Flink" by Heiko Udluft & Giuseppe Sirigu, Airbus Defense and Space
7:30 pm - Talk #2: "Stateful Functions - Apache Flink for Event-Driven Applications" by Konstantin Knauf, Ververica
8:00 pm - 8:30 pm - Networking

Please RSVP to attend and invite your colleagues & friends to join!

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Talk #1: Airbus makes more of the sky with Flink
Speakers: Giuseppe Sirigu, Data Scientist for AirSens & Heiko Udluft, Product Owner for AirSense

Abstract: Make More of the Sky - Air Traffic Management (ATM) services affect the quality and performance of every commercial flight in the world - currently transporting about a billion passengers a year. Growing traffic, limited systems capacity, strict safety requirements, and high environmental awareness demand a constant ATM services improvement.

Come and listen to Giuseppe Sirigu, Data Scientist for AirSense, and Heiko Udluft, Product Owner for AirSense tell how they use Azure to continuously develop, deploy and release AirSense services, the Airbus new generation ATM services. These services, powered by Azure Data & Analytics platform, provide business insights based on real-time aircraft position data to Airbus internal and external customers in order to shape the future of ATM.

Find out how Flink, Event Hubs, CosmosDB and Databricks, amongst others, were combined to handle real-time streams, derive analytics, and provide decision support directly relevant and valuable for the Air Transportation industry. Giuseppe and Heiko will also cover the collaborative approach they leverage to overcome the challenges encountered along the way.

Talk #2: Stateful Functions - Apache Flink for Event-Driven Applications
Speaker: Konstantin Knauf, Head of Product at Ververica

Abstract: Orchestration for stateless compute has come a long way in recent years, driven by technologies like Kubernetes. Going even further, serverless computing and Functions-as-a-Service (FaaS) are revolutionizing the way we build and operate stateless applications.

However, today both fall short for distributed stateful applications, as state needs to be handled consistently, and stateful service interactions need to be reliable in the face of network, node and software failures. Getting these aspects right makes the difference between a correct and resilient application, and an application that breaks or produces incorrect results under failure.

In this talk, we show how stateful functions can be used to address these shortcomings, combining the benefits of stream processing (here Apache Flink) and FaaS. With these properties, stateful functions form a powerful abstraction for the next generation of event-driven applications.