data Artisans Announces Flink Forward Conference Expansion to China

Flink Forward comes to Beijing in December 2018 and returns to San Francisco in April 2019 as enterprise adoption of stateful stream processing grows and uses cases expand to include ACID transactions


BERLIN and SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 19, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- data Artisans, founded by the original creators of Apache Flink®, announced the Flink Forward schedule, including expansion to China with the inaugural Flink Forward Beijing conference scheduled for December 20-21, 2018, followed by the third annual Flink Forward San Francisco on April 1-2, 2019.

Hosted by data Artisans, Flink Forward is the premier conference for the Apache Flink and stream processing community that brings together hundreds of enterprise developers, open source community members and Apache Flink core committers for hands-on training, technical and use case sessions, as well as international networking opportunities.

Flink Forward Berlin 2018 Highlights:

  • Flink Forward Berlin, held Sept. 3-5, saw delegates from 28 countries and commenced with a comprehensive training day including 15 training modules and 50 conference sessions with speakers from Alibaba, ING, Lyft, Microsoft, Netflix and Uber.
  • The content focused on new cases such as anomaly detection in cloud activities, smart city traffic monitoring, risk assessment for trades, performance and error analysis for service oriented architectures using distributed tracing techniques.
  • data Artisans Streaming Ledger launch bringing distributed ACID transactions to stream processing for the first time. With serializable transactions across multiple tables, rows, and streams, programmers can focus on the application logic, rather than worrying about consistency models. The technology is available in data Artisans Platform, River Edition, please visit https://data-artisans.com/streaming-ledger for more information.
  • data Artisans also announced the general availability of data Artisans Platform 1.2, which features major new enterprise security features. View our blog post to learn more at https://bit.ly/2xc2oKA
  • To view videos and presentations of all keynotes and sessions from Flink Forward Berlin, please visit: https://data-artisans.com/flink-forward-berlin-2018

About data Artisans
data Artisans was founded by the creators of open source Apache Flink® to bring real-time data applications to the enterprise. data Artisans Platform provides turnkey stream processing to businesses, enabling them to manage and deploy live data applications so they can react to data instantaneously and make better and faster business decisions. Global companies such as Alibaba, ING, Netflix and Uber use Flink as the stream processing engine to power large-scale stateful applications, including real-time analytics, machine learning, search and content ranking, and fraud detection.

Backed by Intel Capital, b-to-v Partners, and Tengelmann Ventures, data Artisans is based in Berlin, Germany with an office in San Francisco, Calif. For more information, visit https://data-artisans.com.

About Apache Flink
Apache Flink is used by developers to analyze and process data streams of very high volume. By adopting Flink and a data streaming architecture, enterprises can act on insights from data in a matter of milliseconds, as well as cover existing historical data processing needs within a single platform. Flink is developed and supported by the vibrant and growing Apache Software Foundation open source community with more than 420 contributors to Flink, of which data Artisans engineers are proud participants.

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