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Exploring the Apache Flink API for Processing Streaming Data

by Janani Ravi

Flink is a stateful, tolerant, and large scale system which works with bounded and unbounded datasets using the same underlying stream-first architecture.

What you'll learn

Apache Flink is built on the concept of stream-first architecture where the stream is the source of truth. In this course, Exploring the Apache Flink API for Processing Streaming Data, you will perform custom transformations and windowing operations on streaming data.

First, you will explore different stateless and stateful transformations that Flink supports for data streams such as map, flat map, and filter transformations.

Next, you will learn the use of the process function and the keyed process function which allows you to perform very granular operations on input streams, get access to operator state, and access timer services.

Finally, you will round off your knowledge of the Flink APIs by performing transformations using the table API as well as SQL queries.

When you are finished with this course you will have the skills and knowledge to design Flink pipelines, access state and timers in Flink, perform windowing and join operations, and run SQL queries on input streams.

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About the author

Janani has a Masters degree from Stanford and worked for 7+ years at Google. She was one of the original engineers on Google Docs and holds 4 patents for its real-time collaborative editing framework. After spending years working in tech in the Bay Area, New York, and Singapore at companies such as Microsoft, Google, and Flipkart, Janani finally decided to combine her love for technology with her passion for teaching. She is now the co-founder of Loonycorn, a content studio focused on providing ... more

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