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data Artisans to Host First-Ever Flink Forward San Francisco; Unites Open Source Community to Advance Apache FlinkSAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 22, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- data Artisans, founded by the original creators of Apache Flink®, today announced the inaugural North American edition of Flink Forward, the premier conference for Apache Flink, including early program details. Flink Forward unites developers, enterprises, vendors, users and the open source stream processing community for hands-on training, technical sessions and networking opportunities. The two-day Flink Forward will take place in San Francisco, April 10-11, 2017. Apache Flink is an open source, community-driven stream processing framework for distributed, big data analytics. Apache Flink is one of the largest and fastest growing communities among big data projects. Industry analysts estimate that the big data analytics market will reach $99 billion by 2022 (see Stratistics Market Research Consulting, subscription required), due in large part to data processing software technologies and applications that unleash greater data analytics capabilities. Tools like Apache Flink enable enterprises within e-commerce, telecommunications, and financial sectors (among others) to process high volumes of data at unprecedented speeds and with greater agility. Flink easily integrates with other platforms used for both data input/output (e.g. Apache Kafka or HDFS) and deployment (e.g. Apache Mesos or YARN) and is chosen by companies like Alibaba and King.com for scalability, high performance and low latency data processing. The Apache Flink community recently issued software release 1.2.0 which resolves 650 issues identified through community collaboration and user feedback. New features include low-level stream operations, SQL improvements, asynchronous I/O, Apache Mesos integration and improved documentation. The next major software release is slated for May 2017. Flink Forward Program
On April 10, Flink Forward will also feature a one-day training course for data engineers, software developers, system architects, and technical managers who want a hands-on, in-depth introduction to Apache Flink. Attendees will gain an understanding of Flink features that make it easy to build accurate, fault tolerant applications on streams as well as the most common, useful patterns for processing streaming data with Flink. "The Apache Flink community is growing worldwide, and we want to support that growth with opportunities for developers and users to meet face-to-face in different regions around the globe," said Kostas Tzoumas, Apache Flink PMC member. "Apache Flink provides an open source solution for users of stream processing frameworks that no longer can afford to make tradeoffs related to latency, throughput or result accuracy. After the success of Flink Forward in Europe, we knew it was time to expand this educational forum to North America where so many of our community members and users reside." Flink Forward is made possible by event and media sponsors including Alibaba, Lightbend and theCUBE. To view the event schedule or register, please visit http://sf.flink-forward.org/. For more documentation on Apache Flink version 1.2.0, please visit https://ci.apache.org/projects/flink/flink-docs-release-1.2/. Join the Twitter discussion and follow #FFSF17. About Apache Flink About data Artisans "Apache", "Apache Flink", and their logos are registered trademarks or trademarks of The Apache Software Foundation in the U.S. and/or other countries. Additional Resources Media Contact
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