Streaming Solutions

Getting close to Apache Flink, albeit in a Träge manner – 3

Reading Time: 6 minutes In the last two blogs on Flink, I hope to have been able to underline the primacy of Windows in the scheme of things of Apache Flink’s streaming. I have shared my understanding of two types of Windows that can be attached to a stream of Events, namely (a) CountWindow and (b) TimeWindow. Variations of these types are offered too; for example, one can put Continue Reading

Getting close to Apache Flink, albeit in a Träge manner – 2

Reading Time: 6 minutes From the preceding post in this series In the last blog , we had taken a look at Flink’s CountWindow feature. Here’s a quick recap: As a stream of events enter a Flink-based application, we can apply a transformation of CountWindow on it (there are many such transformations the Flink offers us, we will meet them as we go). CountWindow allows us to create a Continue Reading

Getting close to Apache Flink, albeit in a Träge manner – 1

Reading Time: 7 minutes Of late, I have begun to read about Apache Flink. Apache Flink (just Flink hereafter), is an ‘open source platform for distributed stream and batch data processing’, to quote from the homepage.  What has caught my interest is Flink’s idea that, the ability operate on unit of data streaming in gives one the flexibility to decide what constitutes a batch: count of events or events Continue Reading