Apache Flink

Once a month we hold our internal Tech Talk, this time on the topic of Data Streaming with Apache Flink.

For a fast and immediate processing of data for analysis, data streaming is an enormously important approach. Apache Flink, as an open source tool, offers various possibilities for this.

Among other things, the following points were discussed in the talk:

• What exactly is Flink
• Concepts
• Example of an apiary (employee Boris König is a beekeeper)
• Intro
• Three classes of applications
• Analytic processing
• Stateful stream processing
• Recovery after errors
• ....