General
Reflections on Flink Forward 2015
Flink Forward 2015 was the inaugural conference around the Apache Flink™ community and took place at the beautiful Kulturbrauerei in Berlin, a former brewery turned into a fantastic event space. Overall, we are both delighted and overwhelmed by the success of the conference, and how the Flink community is rapidly growing and connecting.

- Mohamed Amine Abdessemed (Bouygues Telecom): Real-time data integration with Flink & Apache Kafka
- Ignacio Mulas Viela (Ericsson): Applying Kappa architecture in the telecom industry
- Anwar Rizal (Amadeus): Implementing Streaming Decision Tree Using Approximative Algorithms in Flink
- Christian Kreuzfeld (Otto Group): Static vs Dynamic Stream Processing
- Alexander Kolb (Otto Group): Flink? Yet another streaming framework?
- Marton Balassi (Hungarian Academy of Sciences): Stateful Stream processing
- Till Rohrmann (data Artisans): Fault Tolerance and Recovery of Flink Jobs
- Aljoscha Krettek (data Artisans): Notions of Time – How Apache Flink™ Handles Time and Windows
- Assaf Araki (Intel): Real Time Analytics at Scale – Smart Data Pipes for the Internet of Things
- Matthias Sax (HU Berlin): A tale of Squirrels and Storms
- Maximilian Michels (data Artisans): Google Cloud Dataflow on top of Apache Flink™
- Ufuk Celebi (data Artisans): Stream and Batch Processing in One System — Apache Flink™’s Streaming Data Flow Engine
- Albert Bifet (Huawei): Apache SAMOA: Mining Big Data Streams with Apache Flink™
- Fabian Hueske (data Artisans): Cascading on Apache Flink™
- Slim Baltagi (Capital One): Flink and Spark: Similarities and Differences
- Dongwon Kim (POSTECH): A comparative performance evaluation of Flink
- Christopher Hillman (University of Dundee): Beyond MapReduce, Scientific data processing in real-time
- Vyacheslav Zholudev (ResearchGate): Flink – a convenient abstraction layer for YARN?
- Vasia Kalavri (KTH): Automatic Detection of Web Trackers at Telefonica Research
- Mikio Braun (Zalando): Procedural Programming vs. Data Flow
- Martin Junghans (University of Leipzig): Gradoop: Scalable Graph Analytics with Apache Flink
- Moon soo Lee (NFLabs): Data science lifecycle with Apache Flink™ and Apache Zeppelin
- Sebastian Schelters (TU Berlin): Declarative Machine Learning with the Samsara DSL
- Stefano Bortoli & Flavio Pompermaier (OKKAM): A Semantic Big Data Companion
- Kamal Hakimzadeh (KTH): Karamel – Reproducing distributed systems and experiments on cloud
- Jim Dowling (SICS): Interactive Flink Analytics with Hopsworks and Apache Zeppelin
- Nam-Luc Tran (Euranova): Stale Synchronous Parallel Iterations on Flink
- Romeo Kienzler and Simon Laws (IBM): Apache Flink™ Cluster Deployment on Docker using Docker-Compose
- Suneel Marthi (RedHat): BigPetStore: A Comprehensive Blueprint for Apache Flink™
- Marc Schwering (MongoDB): Using Flink with MongoDB to Enhance Relevancy in Personalization
