In this meetup, you will learn:

• What are the common use-cases for Apache Flink and why it is different from other streaming frameworks
• How to design and implement streaming applications using Flink’s DataStream API
• How to use Flink’s connectors, state management, checkpoints and save points to integrate with external systems and ensure fault-tolerance
• How to deploy and manage Flink clusters on Kubernetes using the Flink operator
• How to leverage Flink’s batch & streaming unification to handle both bounded and unbounded data sources

About Speaker:
Robert Metzger is a staff software engineer at decodable. He oversees the core Flink-based data platform at decodable powering the SQL-based SaaS stream processing platform. Besides this role, he’s a committer and the PMC Chair of the Apache Flink project. He has co-created Flink and contributed many core components of the project over the years. He previously co-founded and successfully exited data Artisans (now Ververica), the company that created and commercialized Flink. Robert Metzger is frequently speaking and writing about Flink, stream processing and related technologies.