Seattle Apache Flink Meetup: Stream processing with Flink at Alibaba and OfferUp

Welcome to the Apache Flink community! After months of preparation, we are excited to announce our first Seattle Apache Flink meetup, and invite you to join us!

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Please RSVP in advance so we can estimate and order food. We may also need to strictly match attendees with RSVP list at entrance due to security reasons.
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DATE: Jan 17th, 2018, Wednesday

Location: 1745 114th Ave SE · Bellevue, WA

Please share with anyone who may be interested in Flink and stream processing.

TALK #1 (~45min)

Haitao Wang, Senior Staff Engineer at Alibaba, will give a presentation on large-scale streaming processing with Flink and Flink SQL at Alibaba and several internal use cases.

TALK #2 (~30min)

Bowen Li will talk about details of future meetup planning and logistics. He will also present how OfferUp, the largest mobile marketplace in the U.S., does large-scale stream processing with Flink to better serve local buyers and sellers, and what they have contributed to Flink's DataStream APIs, state backends, metrics system, and connectors.

We may also talk about what's new in Flink 1.4 and how users can leverage these new features, and what Flink 1.5 would look like and what's users vision on Flink.

AGENDA

• 5:30pm - 6pm Food and networking
• 6pm Presentations and Q&A

SPONSOR: OfferUp

Food and drinks will be provided. Plenty of onsite parking spots.