Apache Flink 1.11.2 Released 17 Sep 2020 Zhu Zhu (@zhuzhv) The Apache Flink community released the second bugfix version of the Apache Flink 1.11 series. Continue reading »

Flink Community Update - August'20 04 Sep 2020 Marta Paes (@morsapaes) Ah, so much for a quiet August month. This time around, we bring you some new Flink Improvement Proposals (FLIPs), a preview of the upcoming Flink Stateful Functions 2.2 release and a look into how far Flink has come in comparison to 2019. Continue reading »

Memory Management improvements for Flink’s JobManager in Apache Flink 1.11 01 Sep 2020 Andrey Zagrebin In a previous blog post, we focused on the memory model of the TaskManagers and its improvements with the Apache Flink 1.10 release. This blog post addresses the same topic but for Flink's JobManager instead. Continue reading »

Apache Flink 1.10.2 Released 25 Aug 2020 Zhu Zhu (@zhuzhv) The Apache Flink community released the second bugfix version of the Apache Flink 1.10 series. Continue reading »

The State of Flink on Docker 20 Aug 2020 Robert Metzger (@rmetzger_) This blog post gives an update on the recent developments of Flink's support for Docker. Continue reading »

Accelerating your workload with GPU and other external resources 06 Aug 2020 Yangze Guo This post introduces the new External Resource Framework in Flink 1.11 and take GPU as an example to show how to accelerate your workload with external resources. Continue reading »

PyFlink: The integration of Pandas into PyFlink 04 Aug 2020 Jincheng Sun (@sunjincheng121) & Markos Sfikas (@MarkSfik) The Apache Flink community put some great effort into integrating Pandas with PyFlink in the latest Flink version 1.11. Some of the added features include support for Pandas UDF and the conversion between Pandas DataFrame and Table. In this article, we will introduce how these functionalities work and how to use them with a step-by-step example. Continue reading »

Flink SQL Demo: Building an End-to-End Streaming Application 28 Jul 2020 Jark Wu (@JarkWu) Apache Flink 1.11 has released many exciting new features, including many developments in Flink SQL which is evolving at a fast pace. This article takes a closer look at how to quickly build streaming applications with Flink SQL from a practical point of view. Continue reading »