Hi John, unfortunately, there are no really good and up to date documents about Flink's internals. There was some discussion about updating the internals [1] but the community did decide against submitting it as a season of docs project. I agree that we should update our documentation about Flink's internals, though.
At the moment, the best way about learning about Flink is the code and the user/dev ML where you can ask about concepts and how things work. [1] http://apache-flink-mailing-list-archive.1008284.n3.nabble.com/DISCUSS-Apache-Flink-at-Season-of-Docs-td28133.html Cheers, Till On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 2:50 AM Rong Rong <walter...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Fan, John, > > The flink internal link[1] seems to be not updated in the last years. > I found out some higher level pages in the official documentation here[2] > however they are still very limited. > > Is there any other well maintained, internal documentations for > contributors? > I think it might be a good idea to maintain a higher-level guidance doc for > new contributors about Flink internals? > > Best, > Rong > > ---- > [1] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLINK/Flink+Internals > [2] > > https://ci.apache.org/projects/flink/flink-docs-release-1.8/internals/components.html > > On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 4:48 AM Fan Liya <liya.fa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > You can find some articles here: > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLINK/Flink+Internals > > > > Best, > > Liya Fan > > > > On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 6:29 PM John Tipper <john_tip...@hotmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > Is there a guide somewhere for the internals of Flink for developers > > > wanting to get involved in core development? I'm particularly > interested > > > in any notes on how the codebase is put together so that it's possible > to > > > learn how it works internally. > > > > > > I'm particularly interested in what classes are involved in the barrier > > > mechanism and state and where these are found, but it's a large > codebase > > so > > > I'm sure it would be helpful for new developers to have pointers to > what > > > does what inside the codebase or where to start looking for details of > > > certain things. > > > > > > Many thanks, > > > > > > John > > > > > >
