Flink Forward Berlin 2017: Frank Lauterwald - Time-based Aggregates: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
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Time-based aggregations are a common use case in stream-processing, but some details remain surprisingly difficult to grasp. Many of them are related to the distributed nature of topologies and the inevitability of failures. Flink´s strong semantic foundations make it easy to avoid wrong results. But getting the correct results - reliably and timely - is not trivial either. This is especially true when reading data from partitioned - and potentially skewed - Kafka topics. There are some common mistakes and misunderstandings that may lead to problems - including, but not limited to - excessively large states or jobs (seemingly) not making any progress. We try to identify a couple of dos and don´ts to help you avoid common pitfalls and get your jobs up and running quickly.
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Goldman Sachs's Data Lake platform serves as the firm's centralized data platform, ingesting 140K (and growing!) batches per day of Datasets of varying shape and size. Powered by Flink and using metadata configured by platform users, ingestion applications are generated dynamically at runtime to extract, transform, and load data into centralized storage where it is then exported to warehousing solutions such as Sybase IQ, Snowflake, and Amazon Redshift. Data Latency is one of many key considerations as producers and consumers have their own commitments to satisfy. Consumers range from people/systems issuing queries, to applications using engines like Spark, Hive, and Presto to transform data into refined Datasets. Apache Iceberg allows our applications to not only benefit from consistency guarantees important when running on eventually consistent storage like S3, but also allows us the opportunity to improve our batch processing patterns with its scalability-focused features.
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At Flink Forward, we get to hear creative, unique use cases, often on the bleeding edge of some of the most exciting current technologies. This talk will give you a chance to get to open up the hood on our driven and innovative Open Source community. I will cover what our community has been working on this past year, and how this work relates to our (Ververica's) exciting new Flink engineering roadmap! I will also go through some best practices and upcoming opportunities for getting involved in this community!
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Caito Scherr
Practical learnings from running thousands of Flink jobs
Practical learnings from running thousands of Flink jobsFlink Forward Flink Forward San Francisco 2022.
Task Managers constantly running out of memory? Flink job keeps restarting from cryptic Akka exceptions? Flink job running but doesn’t seem to be processing any records? We share practical learnings from running thousands of Flink Jobs for different use-cases and take a look at common challenges they have experienced such as out-of-memory errors, timeouts and job stability. We will cover memory tuning, S3 and Akka configurations to address common pitfalls and the approaches that we take on automating health monitoring and management of Flink jobs at scale.
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Hong Teoh & Usamah Jassat
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2. Stateless queries on streaming data, such as projections and filters, result in new STREAMs or CHANGELOGs.
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Using Queryable State for Fun and Profit
Using Queryable State for Fun and ProfitFlink Forward Flink Forward San Francisco 2022.
A particular feature in our system relies on a streaming 90-minute trailing window of 1-minute samples - implemented as a lookaside cache - to speed up a particular query, allowing our customers to rapidly see an overview of their estate. Across our entire customer base, there is a substantial amount of data flowing into this cache - ~1,000,000 entries/second, with the entire cache requiring ~600GB of RAM. The current implementation is simplistic but expensive. In this talk I describe a replacement implementation as a stateful streaming Flink application leveraging Queryable State. This Flink application reduces the net cost by ~90%. In this session, the implementation is described in detail, including windowing considerations, a sliding-window state buffer that avoids the sliding window replication penalty, and a comparison of queryable state and Redis queries. The talk concludes with a frank discussion of when this distinctive approach is, and is not, appropriate.
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Ron Crocker
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The world is constantly changing. Data is continuously produced and thus should be consumed in a similar fashion by enterprise systems. Only this enables real-time decisions at scale. Message logs such as Apache Kafka can be found in almost every architecture, while databases and other batch systems still provide the foundation. Change Data Capture (CDC) propagates changes downstream. In this talk, we will highlight what it means to be a general data processor and how Flink can act as an integration hub. We present the current state of Flink and how it can power various use cases on both finite and infinite streams. We demonstrate Flink's SQL engine as a changelog processor that is shipped with an ecosystem tailored to process CDC data and maintain materialized views. We will use Kafka as an upsert log, Debezium for connecting to databases, and enrich streams of various sources. Finally, we will combine Flink's Table API with DataStream API for event-driven applications beyond SQL.
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Timo Walther
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Neuro-ID analyzes web behavior at a large scale to determine visitors' intent on web pages, specifically in the online lending industry. When users interact with an online loan application, our software analyzes their behavior to determine if the applicant may be potentially fraudulent. Lenders can then request various scores describing the applicant's intentions in real-time to use to make decisions during the application flow. Flink gives our product the ability to observe behavior in a stateful manner. As an applicant interacts with an online loan application, a Flink application is used to compare earlier actions to later actions. This processing in Flink can determine the applicant's intent throughout the process of the application.
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