Here is a digestible read on some January activity in the Flink community:
Highlights:
- Flink 0.8.0 was released
- The Flink community published a technical roadmap for 2015
- Flink was used to scale matrix factorization to extreme scale
- Flink's graduation was advertised and picked up by several articles in the press
- Flink Streaming won a community vote at the Hadoop Summit Europe
- Flink was presented at meetups and events in Paris, the Bay Area, Berlin and FOSDEM in Brussels.
- Notable code contributions include an off-heap memory mode, Gelly, Flink's new Graph API, semantic annotations, and a new YARN client.