Making Sense of Apache Flink: A Fearless Introduction

Today's consumers expect timely and accurate information from the companies they do business with. Whether it's being alerted that someone has fraudulently used your credit card to rent a car halfway around the world, or checking on the balance of your mobile data plan, it's no longer good enough to learn about yesterday's information today.

Apache Flink is a battle-hardened stream processor widely used for demanding applications like these. Its performance and robustness are the result of a handful of core design principles: a shared-nothing architecture with local state, event-time processing, and state snapshots (for recovery). Flink is sometimes described as being complex and difficult to learn, but it's actually rather simple, and this talk will supply the background you need to approach Flink with confidence.