Ververica Blog

This blog post is a Q&A session with Vino Yang, Senior Engineer at Tencent’s Big Data team. Below, we discuss the benefits of adopting stream processing and Apache Flink for modern application development.

With the unavoidable and ever-growing presence of sensors and smart devices, Complex Event Processing (CEP) is fast becoming a critical paradigm for enterprises to keep ahead of the curve and turn real-time, potentially infinite data streams into...

Getting up and running with Flink is easy as ABC. In this post, we go over 5 “baby” steps to guide you through setting up your first running Flink application locally. We discuss the software requirements to get started and point out some...

This blog post is a Q&A session with Jakub Piasecki, Director of Technology at Freeport Metrics, about the benefits of real-time, data-driven applications and open-source software.

This episode of  Flink Friday Tip explores the Broadcast State pattern that was introduced in Apache Flink 1.5.0. In the following sections, we describe what is a Broadcast State Pattern, how Broadcast State differs from other types of operator...

While Flink SQL was initially released with Flink 1.1.0 back in August 2016 recent Flink releases have added quite a bit of functionality that makes Flink SQL easier to use by eliminating the need to write Java/Scala code. In this post, we want...

A common requirement for many stateful streaming applications is the ability to control how long application state can be accessed (e.g., due to legal regulations like GDPR) and when to discard it. This blog post introduces the state time-to-live...