How Apache Flink™ handles backpressure
How Apache Flink responds to backpressure: bounded network buffer pools let a slow task throttle its upstream tasks, all the way back to a durable source, without losing data.
Ufuk Celebi8 min read
Kostas Tzoumas
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High-throughput, low-latency, and exactly-once stream processing
Streaming fault-tolerance architectures compared (record acks, micro-batching, transactional updates, distributed snapshots), with Flink vs Storm throughput and latency benchmarks.
Kostas Tzoumas27 min read