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Flink Forward Seattle 2023: Recordings Available Now

Written by Karin Landers | 21 December 2023

The wait is over! You can now access every available session from Flink Forward Seattle 2023 on-demand at Ververica Academy.

Flink Forward  is *the* conference dedicated entirely to Apache Flink®, and past events have included speakers, sessions, and attendees from companies like Uber, Lyft, Stripe, Netflix, and many more.

Regardless of whether you were able to join in-person at the live event, the recordings of the sessions are now available for everyone. You can watch your favorite sessions again, check out concurrent breakout sessions, and view the recordings at your own pace to see what you missed. To get access to the content for free, head over to Ververica Academy today!

WATCH NOW

Access the Recordings

  1. Simply click the link, and you'll be prompted to either sign in or sign up for Ververica Academy.
  2. Once you've entered your credentials, (or first created your free login) you'll be directed to the Flink Forward Seattle recordings main page.
  3. All videos are organized by track. To watch a specific session, you can navigate easily by simply clicking on the track under "Learning Topics".

Take your pick of 60+ speakers by browsing through Ververica Academy to watch at your leisure.

Speaker Sessions

Speakers covered various topics on streaming at scale, handling performance issues and troubleshooting, leveraging stability and efficiency tuning Flink clusters, and much more. If you are looking for a recap about the big announcements and keynote sessions from this year's event, including the new features available in fully managed Ververica Cloud and the evolution to Streamhouse, check out all the details in our recent blog: Highlights from Flink Forward Seattle.

This year, Flink Forward started with four keynotes and then broke into five breakout tracks, which included tech deep dives, operations, use cases, ecosystem talks, and an industry track of sessions focused entirely on the banking and finance industry. The conclusion of the event day was a final keynote presented by Ververica's CEO Alex Walden.

Our Recommendations

Unsure of where to start? We recommend checking out some of the top attended breakout track sessions:

  • Flink SQL: The Challenges of Implementing a Modern Streaming SQL Engine (Tech Deep Dive Breakout Track Session)
    • Jark Wu, Alibaba
  • Flink Alert Processing to Address Alert Fatigue in Cybersecurity (Use Case Breakout Track Session)
    • Alex Thomas, Taruj Goyal, Tejas Budukh and Anjali Mangal, VMware
  • From 0 to 100,000 in .5 seconds - Optimizing Apache Flink Applications to Run Faster (Industry - Banking and Finance - Breakout Track Session)
    • Jasmin Soltani and Da Huo, Varun Sayal, Bloomberg LP
  • Apache Flink + Paimon: CDC Data Into the Lake in Near Real-time (Ecosystem Breakout Track Session)
    • Jingsong Li, Alibaba
  • Apache Flink Memory Model Explained (Operations Breakout Track Session) 
    • Asimansu Bera, Ververica



Apache Flink Training Courses

Prior to the conference, learners from around the globe gathered to participate in sold out, two-day, in-person Apache Flink training courses, offered by Ververica Academy.

Did you miss our sold out in-person training sessions? No worries! Ververica Academy is excited to bring back these popular, high-demand courses in a virtual format in 2024.

But wait, there's more! By accessing the Flink Forward Seattle recordings in Ververica Academy now, you automatically unlock immediate access to our exclusive online Apache Flink courses. Plus, you'll be on the VIP list to receive early notifications about future course launches.

Back to Berlin in 2024

While recordings are a great way to share the wealth of information presented by expert speakers, not even the most talented videographer can capture the great conversations happening between the community members in attendance, and there is nothing like networking face-to-face.

Mark your calendars and save the date, as Flink Forward is heading back to Berlin, Germany in October 2024!

Subscribe here for all the upcoming details.

Resources and Next Steps

If you’d like to hear more about Flink Forward, check out these resources:

On behalf of the entire team at Ververica, we extend our thanks to all the attendees, sponsors, Program Committee members, and the Apache Flink Community for helping make this an event to remember. Enjoy the videos, and keep Flinking!