Fluss Forward
- The Apache Fluss community. In one room.
- One day of practitioner talks. Fluss Forward.
- One evening of networking. Fluss Forward. Dark Mode
- One exclusive product day
One day of talks. One evening of community. One exclusive product day. The gathering of engineers, contributors, and early adopters shaping the future of Apache Fluss™.
What Is Fluss Forward
Apache Fluss is open-source, lakehouse-native streaming storage that makes your data lakehouse truly real-time. Fluss Forward is where the community that builds and runs it comes together. This isn't a vendor showcase. It's a community event. Deliberately timed as the pre-event to Big Data LDN. Fluss Forward is the deeper dive before the wider stage.
Fluss Forward 2026
Fluss Forward. The Day Event
A structured, content-driven conference dedicated entirely to Apache Fluss and real-time data infrastructure. Short, dense talks from engineers in production. Architecture deep dives. Honest war stories. A panel with the people actually building Fluss. No theory without numbers. No pitches. No filler.
Fluss Forward. Dark Mode
When the talks end, the real conversations begin. Fluss Forward. Dark Mode is an open-floor evening of drinks, music, and the kind of unscripted exchange that only happens when the right people are in the room. Contributors next to early adopters. Engineers next to architects. The Apache Fluss community, off the record. Networking. Drinks and food. No agenda.
Fluss Product Day. Day 2
The day after the conference, an exclusive feature review of Apache Fluss guided by the Ververica engineers who are actively building Apache Fluss. This is your chance to get inside it before it goes public. Small groups. Real systems. Direct access to the core team.
TWO DAYS.
TWO FORMATS.
ONE COMMUNITY.
Fluss Forward + Fluss Dark Mode
Practitioner talks. Architecture deep dives. Community panel. War stories from production. Networking and music. One ticket. Full day access. Lunch included. Evening experience to follow.
What Gets Covered
Sessions address the real challenges and the real opportunities of building on Apache Fluss.
Apache Fluss in Production
Fluss offers columnar streaming storage with millisecond-level latency, real-time update capabilities, and read performance improvements of up to 10x with reduced network costs. Hear from the early adopters who are already running it, what works, what broke, and what they'd do differently.
Streamhouse Architecture
Apache Fluss represents a new architectural approach: the Streamhouse for real-time lakehouses. Instead of stitching together separate streaming and batch systems, the Streamhouse unifies them under a single architecture. Flink as compute. Fluss as real-time storage. Paimon as the historical tier.
Real-Time AI
A conventional real-time AI stack stitches together a message broker, a stream processor, an online store, an offline store, and a synchronization layer, every boundary is an integration point where data silently diverges. Apache Fluss collapses that stack into one substrate. See what that makes possible for feature pipelines, model serving, and online inference.
Why Fluss, Why Now
Fluss officially became an Apache Software Foundation incubating project. A signal that this technology is ready for the community to build on. What this milestone means, what comes next, and how to get involved.
Community Building
Open-source contribution sessions. Meet the committers. First-time contributor workshops. The on-ramp for engineers who want to shape what Fluss becomes, not just consume it.