Flink as a general reactive application framework

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Flink as a general reactive application framework

Atle Prange
Hi, i am exploring the possibility to use Flink as the main framework to drive a (highly reactive) application. I started out with Akka and RxJava, but it seemed to me that Flink in general supports the same features, but is more robust and has more potential. I would also get an excellent runtime platform. Any thoughts? Is Flink "to heavy", or are there other caveats? When you go for flink you basically leave vanilla java runtime features behind, and leave it up to Flink to figure out (but also optimize) threading, concurrency and so on.

-atle