run flink on edge vs hub

Posted by Eleanore Jin on
URL: http://deprecated-apache-flink-user-mailing-list-archive.369.s1.nabble.com/run-flink-on-edge-vs-hub-tp35179.html

Hi Community, 

Currently we are running flink in 'hub' data centers where data is ingested into the platform via kafka, and flink job will read from kafka, do the transformations, and publish to another kafka topic. 

I would also like to see if the same logic (read input message -> do transformation -> return output message) can be applied on 'edge' data centers. 

The requirement for run on 'edge' is to return the response synchronously. Like the synchronous http based request/response. 

Can you please provide some guidance/thoughts on this? 

Thanks a lot!

Eleanore