Dear community, happy to share a short community update this week. With one week to go to the planned feature freeze for Flink 1.10 and Flink Forward Asia in Beijing the dev@ mailing list pretty quiet these days.
Flink Development ============== * [releases] Hequn has started the vote on RC1 for Flink 1.8.3, which unfortunately has already received a -1 due to wrong/missing license information. Expecting a new RC soon. [1] * [sql] In the past timestamp fields in Flink SQL were internally represented as longs and it was recommended to use longs directly in user-defined functions. With the introduction of a new TimestampType the situation has changed and conversion between long and TIMESTAMP will be disabled. [2] [1] http://apache-flink-mailing-list-archive.1008284.n3.nabble.com/VOTE-Release-1-8-3-release-candidate-1-tp35401p35407.html [2] http://apache-flink-mailing-list-archive.1008284.n3.nabble.com/DISCUSS-Disable-conversion-between-TIMESTAMP-and-Long-in-parameters-and-results-of-UDXs-tp35269p35271.html Notable Bugs ========== * [FLINK-14930] [1.9.1] The OSS filesystem did not allow the configuration of additional credentials providers due to a shading-related bug. Resolved for 1.9.2. [3] [3] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-14930 Events, Blog Posts, Misc =================== * Flink Forward Asia took place this week at the National Congress Center in Beijing organized by Alibaba. Talks by Ververica, Tencent, Baidu, Alibaba, Dell, Lyft, Netflix, Cloudera and many other members of the Chinese Apache Flink community, and more than 1500 attendees as far as I heard. Impressive! [4] * At Flink Forward Asia Alibaba announced it has open sourced Alink, a machine learning library on top of Apache Flink[5,6] * Upcoming Meetups * The first meetup of the Apache Flink Meetup Chicago on 5th of December comes with four talks(!) highlighting different deployment methods of Apache Flink (AWS EMR, AWS Kinesis Analytics, Verveirca Platform, IBM Kubernetes). Talks by *Trevor Grant*, *Seth Wiesman*, *Joe Olson* and *Margarita Uk*. [7] * On December 17th there will be the second Apache Flink meetup in Seoul. Maybe Dongwon can share the list of speakers in this thread, my Korean is a bit rusty. [8] [4] https://m.aliyun.com/markets/aliyun/developer/ffa2019 [5] https://technode.com/2019/11/28/alibaba-cloud-machine-learning-platform-open-source/ [6] https://github.com/alibaba/Alink/blob/master/README.en-US.md [7] https://www.meetup.com/Chicago-Apache-Flink-Meetup-CHAF/events/266609828/ [8] https://www.meetup.com/Seoul-Apache-Flink-Meetup/events/266824815/ Cheers, Konstantin (@snntrable) -- Konstantin Knauf | Solutions Architect +49 160 91394525 Follow us @VervericaData Ververica <https://www.ververica.com/> -- Join Flink Forward <https://flink-forward.org/> - The Apache Flink Conference Stream Processing | Event Driven | Real Time -- Ververica GmbH | Invalidenstrasse 115, 10115 Berlin, Germany -- Ververica GmbH Registered at Amtsgericht Charlottenburg: HRB 158244 B Managing Directors: Timothy Alexander Steinert, Yip Park Tung Jason, Ji (Tony) Cheng
