Linksfest to Get Started with Apache Flink

Flink, another great data processing platform, has been a rising star this year. It is a high performance stream and batch data processing data platform, with fault-tolerant, scalable, distributed data stream computation at its core.

Here are several links and resources to get you started.

Company and Community

Apache Flink project

dataArtisans, company behind Flink
Google Trends comparing Flink, Spark and Storm (Spark is still way more popular)

Books

Introduction to Apache Flink, book from Flink core developers, highly recommend to start your Flink journey with. It is a Free download from MapR.

Flink in Action (MEAP, available in Spring 2017), the first chapter (PDF) is Free and gives a good overview.

Quick start guide

https://ci.apache.org/projects/flink/flink-docs-master/quickstart/run_example_quickstart.html

https://www.mapr.com/blog/essential-guide-streaming-first-processing-apache-flink

Talks and Videos

Video: Robust Stream Processing with Apache Flink

Flink-forward conf 2016

OSCON 16 talk: Robust Stream Processing with Apache Flink

Slides

Alibaba slides on Blink, their fork of Flink, Alibaba is one of the biggest online e-commerce site in China.

Apache Flink What How Why Who Where

Performance and Benchmark

Benchmarking Stream Processing Engine at Yahoo!

Another benchmark done by dataArtisans

Setup

Docker images on Docker Hub