apache flink (3 posts)

The last 2 posts described how to launch Apache Flink and run realtime streaming applications on it with Apache Kafka. https://blog.petitviolet.net/post/2020-12-14/getting-started-with-apache-flink https://blog.petitviolet.net/post/2021-01-15/apache-flink-with-apache-kafka In order to understand

This post describes how to utilize Apache Kafka as Source as well as Sink of realtime streaming application that run on top of Apache Flink. The previous post describes how to launch Apache Flink locally, and use Socket to put events into Flink cluster and process in it. Please refer to it to get

> Apache Flink is a framework and distributed processing engine for stateful computations over unbounded and bounded data streams. https://flink.apache.org/flink-architecture.html In my words, we can run stateful streaming applications on top of it that consume unbounded data come from wherever