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WeChat Backend Team
WeChat Backend Team
Jun 1, 2023 · Big Data

How WeChat Boosted Flink Stability with TaskManager Recovery and Load Balancing

This article details WeChat’s Gemini‑2.0 real‑time streaming platform built on Flink, explaining two key stability enhancements: a TaskManager‑level partial failure recovery that avoids data loss during node crashes, and a load‑balancing scheduler that evenly distributes tasks across TaskManagers to improve resource utilization and reduce latency.

Big DataFlinkKubernetes
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How WeChat Boosted Flink Stability with TaskManager Recovery and Load Balancing
JD Cloud Developers
JD Cloud Developers
May 30, 2023 · Big Data

ClickHouse & Flink: Choosing Engines, Tuning Queries, and Scaling Concurrency

This article details how JDQ, Flink, and ClickHouse were integrated to replace Elasticsearch for real‑time reporting, covering table‑engine selection, Flink sink implementation, performance bottlenecks, CPU hot‑spots, query optimization techniques, and strategies for handling high concurrency while ensuring data consistency and system stability.

ClickHouseFlinkSQL optimization
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ClickHouse & Flink: Choosing Engines, Tuning Queries, and Scaling Concurrency
Big Data Technology & Architecture
Big Data Technology & Architecture
May 29, 2023 · Big Data

Kuaishou Data Lake Construction with Apache Hudi: Architecture, Challenges, and Solutions

This article explains why Kuaishou built a data lake, describes its lake architecture based on Apache Hudi and Flink, outlines five major production challenges—including ingestion bottlenecks, snapshot queries, update bottlenecks, merge limitations, and operational reliability—and details the practical solutions and future roadmap.

Apache HudiFlinkdata engineering
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Kuaishou Data Lake Construction with Apache Hudi: Architecture, Challenges, and Solutions
DataFunSummit
DataFunSummit
May 28, 2023 · Big Data

Apache Hudi: Capabilities, Architecture, Use Cases, and Future Outlook

This article introduces Apache Hudi as a next‑generation streaming data‑lake platform, explains its core concepts, architecture, and table types, and showcases real‑world use cases at Tencent such as CDC ingestion, minute‑level real‑time warehousing, streaming analytics, multi‑stream joins, ad attribution, and stream‑to‑batch processing, while also outlining future directions.

Apache HudiCDCFlink
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Apache Hudi: Capabilities, Architecture, Use Cases, and Future Outlook
vivo Internet Technology
vivo Internet Technology
May 24, 2023 · Big Data

Kafka Real-time Data Archiving to Hive: Flink SQL and DataStream Implementation Solutions

The article explains how to archive Kafka real‑time data to Hive using either Flink SQL, which quickly creates partitioned ORC tables but requires timezone handling, or Flink DataStream for more complex pipelines, and offers best‑practice guidance on data quality, system complexity, security, and performance.

Big DataData ArchivingDataStream
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Kafka Real-time Data Archiving to Hive: Flink SQL and DataStream Implementation Solutions
NetEase Media Technology Team
NetEase Media Technology Team
May 23, 2023 · Cloud Native

How NetEase Media Scaled Flink with Kubernetes: Architecture, Optimizations, and Lessons Learned

This article details NetEase Media's migration of most Flink jobs to a self‑built real‑time platform on Kubernetes, covering the benefits of K8s isolation, the chosen native deployment mode, performance‑critical optimizations, monitoring, resource‑recommendation, and future directions for cloud‑native streaming workloads.

Cloud NativeFlinkKubernetes
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How NetEase Media Scaled Flink with Kubernetes: Architecture, Optimizations, and Lessons Learned
DataFunTalk
DataFunTalk
May 17, 2023 · Databases

Evolution of 360 Commercial Real-Time Data Warehouse and Apache Doris Deployment

This article details the three‑stage evolution of 360's real‑time data warehouse—from Storm + Druid + MySQL to Flink + Druid + TiDB and finally to Flink + Apache Doris—explaining architectural pain points, the reasons for choosing Doris, and how the new system delivers sub‑second query latency, strong consistency, and simplified operations across advertising scenarios.

Apache DorisBig DataData Consistency
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Evolution of 360 Commercial Real-Time Data Warehouse and Apache Doris Deployment
Tongcheng Travel Technology Center
Tongcheng Travel Technology Center
May 17, 2023 · Databases

StarRocks Production Practice at Tongcheng Travel: Architecture, Use Cases, and Technical Evaluation

This article details Tongcheng Travel’s production deployment of the StarRocks OLAP database, covering background, business scenarios, technical evaluation against ClickHouse and Greenplum, implementation with Flink SQL, real‑time analytics, offline reporting, CDP use cases, performance optimizations, and future cloud‑native plans.

Big DataFlinkOLAP
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StarRocks Production Practice at Tongcheng Travel: Architecture, Use Cases, and Technical Evaluation
Big Data Technology & Architecture
Big Data Technology & Architecture
May 11, 2023 · Big Data

Remote State Backend for Flink: Design, Optimization, and Deployment with Taishan KV Store

This article describes the motivation, challenges, design, and performance optimizations of a remote state backend for Flink that leverages Bilibili's Taishan distributed KV store to achieve storage‑compute separation, lighter checkpoints, faster rescaling, and improved resource utilization in large‑scale streaming jobs.

Big DataFlinkRemote Storage
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Remote State Backend for Flink: Design, Optimization, and Deployment with Taishan KV Store
dbaplus Community
dbaplus Community
May 9, 2023 · Big Data

How a Bank Built a Near‑Real‑Time Data Platform with Kafka, Flink & Hudi

An in‑depth case study of a Chinese bank’s near‑real‑time data platform reveals its evolution from a monolithic CDC pipeline to a split architecture featuring a real‑time data lake and a data‑service bus, detailing component choices, schema‑registry integration, SDK development, observability, and future roadmap.

Big Data ArchitectureFlinkSchema Registry
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How a Bank Built a Near‑Real‑Time Data Platform with Kafka, Flink & Hudi
HelloTech
HelloTech
May 8, 2023 · Artificial Intelligence

One‑Stop AI Platform for Cloud, Edge, Mobile, Flink, and Application Intelligence: Architecture, Challenges, and Solutions

The article presents a comprehensive one‑stop AI platform that unifies training, model, feature, and decision services across cloud, edge, mobile, Flink, and application environments, detailing its architecture, the limitations of cloud‑centric inference, the advantages of localized inference, and the challenges and solutions for model and feature localization, SDK design, and future AutoML enhancements.

AI platformFlinkdistributed systems
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One‑Stop AI Platform for Cloud, Edge, Mobile, Flink, and Application Intelligence: Architecture, Challenges, and Solutions
DataFunTalk
DataFunTalk
May 5, 2023 · Big Data

NetEase Cloud Music Real-Time Data Warehouse Architecture and Low-Code Platform Practices

This article presents NetEase Cloud Music's real-time data warehouse architecture, covering its streaming and batch scenarios, layered design (ODS, CDM, ADS), technology stack choices, consistency mechanisms, the FastX low-code platform, and future development plans, offering a comprehensive technical overview for data engineers and architects.

Big DataClickHouseFlink
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NetEase Cloud Music Real-Time Data Warehouse Architecture and Low-Code Platform Practices
DataFunTalk
DataFunTalk
May 4, 2023 · Big Data

Tencent Content Ecosystem Real‑Time Signal System: Architecture, Challenges, and Optimization

This article explains how Tencent builds a trillion‑scale real‑time signal system for its content ecosystem, covering signal applications, data source and processing challenges, a layered architecture with Flink‑based streaming, dynamic topic detection, high‑throughput ID mapping, large‑window calculations, rule‑engine triggering, and future roadmap for scalability and cost reduction.

FlinkRule EngineTencent
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Tencent Content Ecosystem Real‑Time Signal System: Architecture, Challenges, and Optimization
DataFunTalk
DataFunTalk
May 3, 2023 · Big Data

Shuttle2.0: Enhancing Spark and Flink Shuffle with Distributed Sorting and Adaptive Broadcast

Shuttle2.0 extends OPPO's open‑source high‑availability Spark Remote Shuffle Service to support Flink, introduces a unified stream‑batch data model, pipelines shuffle with distributed sorting, and provides an Adaptive BroadcastJoin solution that dramatically improves performance and stability for large‑scale big‑data workloads.

Adaptive BroadcastBig DataDistributed Sorting
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Shuttle2.0: Enhancing Spark and Flink Shuffle with Distributed Sorting and Adaptive Broadcast
DataFunSummit
DataFunSummit
Apr 28, 2023 · Big Data

Building a Unified Streaming‑Batch Storage Architecture at Xiaohongshu

This article presents Xiaohongshu's design and implementation of a unified streaming‑batch storage system that integrates Lambda architecture, Kafka, Flink, Iceberg, and modern OLAP engines to solve real‑time data warehouse pain points and enable consistent, exactly‑once analytics across streaming and batch workloads.

Batch ProcessingFlinkIceberg
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Building a Unified Streaming‑Batch Storage Architecture at Xiaohongshu
Bilibili Tech
Bilibili Tech
Apr 28, 2023 · Cloud Native

Remote StateBackend for Flink: Design, Optimizations, and Cloud‑Native Migration

To enable Bilibili’s cloud‑native migration, the team built a RemoteStateBackend that moves Flink’s keyed state to the Taishan KV store, using deterministic KeyGroup placement, per‑shard snapshots, asynchronous write batching, off‑heap caching with Bloom‑filter filtering, and a fixed‑size memory model, which together reduce checkpoint overhead, improve disk utilization, and accelerate rescaling for more than one hundred production jobs.

CloudNativeFlinkPerformanceOptimization
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Remote StateBackend for Flink: Design, Optimizations, and Cloud‑Native Migration
dbaplus Community
dbaplus Community
Apr 11, 2023 · Big Data

How Autohome Built a Flink‑StarRocks Real‑Time Ad Data Warehouse

This article details Autohome's transition from an hourly offline ad data warehouse to a Flink‑StarRocks real‑time architecture, covering background, engine and storage selection, multi‑layer design, implementation steps, encountered issues, monitoring strategies, and future roadmap to achieve second‑level data freshness and high accuracy.

AdvertisingFlinkStarRocks
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How Autohome Built a Flink‑StarRocks Real‑Time Ad Data Warehouse
Big Data Technology & Architecture
Big Data Technology & Architecture
Apr 10, 2023 · Big Data

Fine‑grained Configuration, State Migration, and Debugging Techniques for Flink SQL at Meituan

This article describes how Meituan addresses the rapid growth of Flink SQL jobs by introducing fine‑grained TTL and concurrency settings, an editable execution plan for state migration, pre‑analysis compatibility checks, and a bytecode‑instrumented debugging system that captures operator data and streams it to Kafka for analysis.

Big DataDebuggingFlink
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Fine‑grained Configuration, State Migration, and Debugging Techniques for Flink SQL at Meituan
ITPUB
ITPUB
Apr 8, 2023 · Big Data

How Bilibili Cut Data Pipeline Costs by 20% with Flink Real‑Time Incremental Computing

Facing daily terabyte‑scale data ingestion and costly duplicate reads in its ODS‑to‑DWD pipeline, Bilibili introduced a Flink‑based real‑time incremental computation and multi‑level partition shuffling, dramatically reducing read amplification, cutting resource usage by ~20%, improving latency to minutes, and enhancing scalability.

Big DataData PipelineFlink
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How Bilibili Cut Data Pipeline Costs by 20% with Flink Real‑Time Incremental Computing
DataFunTalk
DataFunTalk
Apr 7, 2023 · Big Data

Introducing Apache Paimon: An Open‑Source Streaming Lakehouse Storage Engine

Apache Paimon is an open‑source streaming data lake storage system that combines LSM‑based real‑time updates, open file formats, and deep integration with Flink, Spark, and Trino to deliver high‑throughput ingestion, low‑latency queries, and unified batch‑stream processing for modern big‑data workloads.

Apache PaimonBig DataFlink
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Introducing Apache Paimon: An Open‑Source Streaming Lakehouse Storage Engine
Big Data Technology & Architecture
Big Data Technology & Architecture
Apr 4, 2023 · Big Data

Understanding Flink’s Data Flow: Buffer Pools, Network Transfer, and Credit‑Based Flow Control

This article explains Flink’s internal data abstraction and transfer mechanisms, detailing how data moves between operators via network buffers, the role of ByteBuffer and NetworkBufferPool, the serialization process, Netty integration, and credit‑based flow control to handle backpressure.

Big DataCredit-based Flow ControlFlink
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Understanding Flink’s Data Flow: Buffer Pools, Network Transfer, and Credit‑Based Flow Control
Bilibili Tech
Bilibili Tech
Apr 4, 2023 · Big Data

How Bilibili’s Flink‑Based Real‑Time Incremental Pipeline Cuts Costs and Boosts Latency

This article details Bilibili’s migration from a Spark‑based offline ODS‑to‑DWD sharding process to a Flink real‑time incremental pipeline, explaining the background challenges, the design of multi‑level partitioning, small‑file optimizations, stability enhancements, and the measurable performance gains achieved.

Big DataFlinkIncremental Processing
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How Bilibili’s Flink‑Based Real‑Time Incremental Pipeline Cuts Costs and Boosts Latency
Big Data Technology & Architecture
Big Data Technology & Architecture
Mar 30, 2023 · Big Data

Apache Paimon (Incubating): A Streaming Lakehouse Storage Project Overview

Apache Paimon, newly incubated by the Apache Software Foundation, combines Flink's real‑time streaming capabilities with open lakehouse storage formats, offering high‑throughput, low‑latency data ingestion, partial‑update merges, and seamless integration with engines like Flink, Spark, and Trino for unified batch and streaming analytics.

Apache PaimonBig DataFlink
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Apache Paimon (Incubating): A Streaming Lakehouse Storage Project Overview
ITPUB
ITPUB
Mar 28, 2023 · Big Data

How We Turned a Hive Data Warehouse into a Real‑Time Lakehouse with Apache Hudi

This article details the migration from a traditional Hive‑based data warehouse to a lakehouse architecture using Apache Hudi, covering the original Lambda setup, its pain points, lake‑vs‑warehouse differences, Hudi features, integration challenges, practical solutions, and future roadmap.

Apache HudiBig DataFlink
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How We Turned a Hive Data Warehouse into a Real‑Time Lakehouse with Apache Hudi
DataFunTalk
DataFunTalk
Mar 28, 2023 · Artificial Intelligence

FeatHub: An Open‑Source Feature Store for Real‑Time and Offline Feature Engineering

This article introduces FeatHub, an open‑source feature‑store project from Alibaba Cloud that provides a Python SDK, flexible architecture, and execution engines such as Flink and Spark to simplify the development, deployment, monitoring, and sharing of real‑time and offline machine‑learning features across multi‑cloud environments.

Feature StoreFlinkPython SDK
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FeatHub: An Open‑Source Feature Store for Real‑Time and Offline Feature Engineering
DataFunTalk
DataFunTalk
Mar 25, 2023 · Artificial Intelligence

ZhongAn Financial Real‑Time Feature Platform: MLOps Practices, Architecture and Anti‑Fraud Applications

This article presents ZhongAn Financial’s end‑to‑end MLOps workflow and real‑time feature platform architecture, detailing team roles, data pipelines, Flink‑based processing, TableStore storage, anti‑fraud feature design, and answers to common implementation questions, offering a comprehensive guide for building scalable, low‑latency ML services in finance.

FlinkMLOpsTablestore
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ZhongAn Financial Real‑Time Feature Platform: MLOps Practices, Architecture and Anti‑Fraud Applications
DeWu Technology
DeWu Technology
Mar 22, 2023 · Big Data

Analysis of Flink Scheduling Components and Slot Allocation

The article explains Flink’s post‑submission scheduling pipeline—from Dispatcher creating SchedulerNG and building the ExecutionGraph, through pipelined region construction and the PipelinedRegionSchedulingStrategy, to slot sharing allocation—identifying why slot and TaskManager overloads occur and proposing randomization or fine‑grained resource strategies to balance load.

DistributedSystemsExecutionGraphFlink
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Analysis of Flink Scheduling Components and Slot Allocation
ITPUB
ITPUB
Mar 13, 2023 · Big Data

What’s New in Apache Kyuubi 1.6.0? Server, Client, and Engine Enhancements

Apache Kyuubi 1.6.0 introduces major server‑side upgrades such as batch JAR task submission with RESTful APIs and a metadata store for HA, client‑side improvements including a unified JDBC driver and enhanced Beeline, plus mature Spark, Flink, Trino, and Hive engine plugins, while outlining the community’s roadmap.

Big DataEngine PluginsFlink
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What’s New in Apache Kyuubi 1.6.0? Server, Client, and Engine Enhancements
DataFunTalk
DataFunTalk
Mar 12, 2023 · Big Data

Apache Kyuubi 1.6.0 Feature Overview and Enhancements

The article provides a comprehensive walkthrough of Apache Kyuubi 1.6.0, detailing server‑side enhancements such as batch (JAR) task submission, metadata store and unified API/authentication, client‑side improvements to the built‑in JDBC driver and Beeline, as well as engine plugins for Spark, Flink, Trino and Hive, and concludes with the community’s roadmap and statistics.

Apache KyuubiBatch ProcessingBig Data
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Apache Kyuubi 1.6.0 Feature Overview and Enhancements
DataFunTalk
DataFunTalk
Mar 9, 2023 · Big Data

Real‑Time Data Platform Architecture and Cloud‑Native Flink Migration at Manbang

This article presents a comprehensive case study of Manbang's real‑time data platform, detailing its business background, cloud‑native Flink + Hologres architecture, migration from self‑built clusters, real‑time product features, decision‑making workflows, and future roadmap, highlighting performance and cost benefits.

FlinkStreamingcloud-native
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Real‑Time Data Platform Architecture and Cloud‑Native Flink Migration at Manbang
dbaplus Community
dbaplus Community
Mar 7, 2023 · Operations

How We Rescued a ClickHouse Logging Cluster After Zookeeper‑Induced Read‑Only Failure

A production logging system became unavailable due to Kafka backlog alerts, prompting an investigation that uncovered read‑only ClickHouse tables caused by mismatched Zookeeper metadata after a TTL policy change, leading to a step‑by‑step recovery involving Zookeeper restarts, metadata fixes, and table reconstruction.

ClickHouseCluster RecoveryFlink
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How We Rescued a ClickHouse Logging Cluster After Zookeeper‑Induced Read‑Only Failure
Alibaba Cloud Big Data AI Platform
Alibaba Cloud Big Data AI Platform
Mar 3, 2023 · Big Data

How Alibaba Cloud EMR Evolved from Open‑Source Compatibility to Enterprise‑Grade Performance

This article outlines Alibaba Cloud EMR's three‑stage evolution—compatibility, contribution, and beyond open source—detailing its early Hadoop adoption, Flink and Spark innovations, cloud‑native optimizations, and enterprise‑grade features such as Remote Shuffle Service, performance benchmarks, and integrated diagnostics.

Alibaba CloudBig DataCloud Native
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How Alibaba Cloud EMR Evolved from Open‑Source Compatibility to Enterprise‑Grade Performance
DataFunTalk
DataFunTalk
Mar 1, 2023 · Databases

Evolution and Optimization of Tencent Music Content Library Data Platform: From Architecture 1.0 to 4.0

This article details the evolution of Tencent Music's content library data platform from version 1.0 to 4.0, describing business requirements, architectural redesigns—including migration from ClickHouse to Apache Doris, introduction of a semantic layer, and extensive write, query, and cost optimizations—while sharing practical lessons and future directions.

Apache DorisBig DataFlink
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Evolution and Optimization of Tencent Music Content Library Data Platform: From Architecture 1.0 to 4.0
Alibaba Cloud Big Data AI Platform
Alibaba Cloud Big Data AI Platform
Mar 1, 2023 · Big Data

How We Built a Scalable Real‑Time Data Architecture for a Complex Supply Chain

This article describes the challenges of a highly complex supply‑chain system, the evolution from early MySQL‑based reporting to a modern real‑time data platform using Flink, Kafka, ClickHouse, Hologres and other cloud services, and the tools and lessons learned to achieve low‑latency, high‑throughput analytics.

ClickHouseFlinkKafka
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How We Built a Scalable Real‑Time Data Architecture for a Complex Supply Chain
DataFunSummit
DataFunSummit
Feb 28, 2023 · Big Data

Iceberg Technology Overview and Its Application at Xiaomi: Practices, Stream‑Batch Integration, and Future Plans

This article introduces the Iceberg table format, explains its core architecture and advantages such as transactionality, implicit partitioning and row‑level updates, details Xiaomi's practical deployments—including CDC pipelines, partition strategies, compaction services, and stream‑batch integration—and outlines future development directions.

FlinkIcebergSpark
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Iceberg Technology Overview and Its Application at Xiaomi: Practices, Stream‑Batch Integration, and Future Plans
macrozheng
macrozheng
Feb 28, 2023 · Big Data

How Tencent Music Scaled Its Content Data Platform with Apache Doris: From ClickHouse to 4.0 Architecture

This article details the evolution of Tencent Music's content data platform from version 1.0 to 4.0, describing the migration from ClickHouse to Apache Doris, the introduction of a semantic layer, optimization of data ingestion, query performance, and cost reduction strategies that dramatically improved data timeliness, operational efficiency, and storage costs.

Apache DorisBig DataFlink
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How Tencent Music Scaled Its Content Data Platform with Apache Doris: From ClickHouse to 4.0 Architecture
DeWu Technology
DeWu Technology
Feb 24, 2023 · Big Data

Real-Time Data Architecture Evolution for a Complex Supply Chain

The article traces Dewu’s supply‑chain data platform from slow MySQL reporting through early CDC‑based wide tables to a Flink‑Kafka‑ClickHouse 1.0 design, then to a more scalable Flink‑Kafka‑Hologres 2.0 architecture that solves upsert and compute‑storage separation, while detailing key operational tricks, code‑generation tools, and future plans for lake‑house integration.

Big DataClickHouseFlink
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Real-Time Data Architecture Evolution for a Complex Supply Chain
Big Data Technology & Architecture
Big Data Technology & Architecture
Feb 24, 2023 · Big Data

Common Flink Task Submission Issues and Solutions on YARN

This article compiles frequent Flink job submission problems on YARN—including WordCount jar errors, HBase dependency conflicts, MySQL timeout, checkpoint restoration failures, parallelism limits, and unexpected container termination—provides root‑cause analysis and step‑by‑step remediation instructions.

Big DataCheckpointFlink
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Common Flink Task Submission Issues and Solutions on YARN
dbaplus Community
dbaplus Community
Feb 15, 2023 · Big Data

How Bilibili Scaled User Behavior Analytics with ClickHouse, Flink, and Iceberg

This article details Bilibili's 北极星 user behavior analysis platform, tracing its evolution from early Spark‑Jar models to Flink‑ClickHouse pipelines and Iceberg‑based full aggregation, and explains the technical solutions for event, retention, funnel, path analysis, data ingestion, cluster rebalancing, and performance optimizations that enable massive real‑time analytics on billions of daily events.

ClickHouseFlinkIceberg
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How Bilibili Scaled User Behavior Analytics with ClickHouse, Flink, and Iceberg
ITPUB
ITPUB
Feb 7, 2023 · Big Data

How Kuaigou Built a Scalable Real‑Time Data Warehouse with Spark, Flink, and Cloud

Facing massive, multi‑source traffic and the need for instant analytics, Kuaigou’s real‑time data warehouse evolved from Spark on‑premise to a cloud‑native stack using Alibaba Blink, Flink, and layered OLAP models, streamlining development, cutting costs, and enabling diverse real‑time applications.

FlinkOLAPSpark
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How Kuaigou Built a Scalable Real‑Time Data Warehouse with Spark, Flink, and Cloud
Big Data Technology & Architecture
Big Data Technology & Architecture
Feb 6, 2023 · Big Data

Real-Time Data Warehouse Solutions with Hudi: Scenarios, Challenges, and Optimizations

This article presents an in‑depth overview of real‑time data‑warehouse scenarios, discusses challenges such as timeliness, update efficiency, and resource consumption, and details practical solutions using Apache Hudi, Flink, Presto, and related optimizations for ingestion, indexing, compaction, and query performance.

Big DataFlinkHudi
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Real-Time Data Warehouse Solutions with Hudi: Scenarios, Challenges, and Optimizations
Bilibili Tech
Bilibili Tech
Jan 31, 2023 · Big Data

Design and Optimization of Real-Time Data Quality Control (DQC) Platform on Bilibili's Big Data System

Bilibili redesigned its real-time data-quality control platform by replacing per-rule Flink jobs with a unified, dynamically-configured architecture that classifies Kafka topics, aggregates via InfluxDB full-table and continuous queries, mitigates data inflation, adds a high-performance proxy, and implements robust monitoring and recovery to ensure scalable, reliable data quality for its big-data services.

Big DataDQCFlink
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Design and Optimization of Real-Time Data Quality Control (DQC) Platform on Bilibili's Big Data System
ITPUB
ITPUB
Jan 26, 2023 · Big Data

How NetEase’s Arctic Unifies Streaming and Batch with Iceberg for Real‑Time Lakehouse

This article explains the challenges of a Lambda‑architecture data pipeline, introduces NetEase’s Arctic lakehouse built on Apache Iceberg, details its table‑store design, optimization cycles, consistency mechanisms, real‑time features, practical use cases, and future roadmap, highlighting its advantages over similar solutions.

ArcticData IntegrationFlink
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How NetEase’s Arctic Unifies Streaming and Batch with Iceberg for Real‑Time Lakehouse
ITPUB
ITPUB
Jan 22, 2023 · Big Data

How Flink Table Store Powers Real‑Time Financial Data Warehousing

This article details a banking‑focused real‑time data‑warehouse solution that leverages Flink Table Store to handle both incremental fact‑table updates and full‑table dimension calculations, compares three traditional approaches, and explains data ingestion, query modes, export options, and future streaming‑warehouse directions.

BankingELTFlink
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How Flink Table Store Powers Real‑Time Financial Data Warehousing
Ctrip Technology
Ctrip Technology
Jan 12, 2023 · Big Data

Real-Time Data Warehouse Architecture and Practice at Ctrip Hotel

The article explains why enterprises need real-time data warehouses, compares Lambda and Kappa architectures, describes Ctrip Hotel's Lambda‑plus‑OLAP variant built with Flink and StarRocks, and details practical solutions for ordering, wide‑table generation, and data validation that enable billion‑row, low‑latency analytics.

CtripFlinkLambda Architecture
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Real-Time Data Warehouse Architecture and Practice at Ctrip Hotel
DataFunSummit
DataFunSummit
Jan 10, 2023 · Big Data

Exploring Iceberg in Huawei Terminal Cloud: Architecture, Features, and Future Plans

This article presents a comprehensive overview of Iceberg's adoption in Huawei Terminal Cloud, covering its architectural overview, key features such as Git‑style data management, real‑time processing, acceleration layers, and future development directions, along with a Q&A session addressing performance and implementation details.

Big DataFlinkGit-style Data Management
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Exploring Iceberg in Huawei Terminal Cloud: Architecture, Features, and Future Plans
Bilibili Tech
Bilibili Tech
Jan 10, 2023 · Big Data

Technical Evolution of Bilibili's PolarStar User Behavior Analysis Platform

Bilibili’s PolarStar platform evolved from Spark‑based batch jobs to a Flink‑driven real‑time pipeline and finally to a unified Iceberg‑on‑ClickHouse model, cutting query latency to seconds, saving thousands of CPU cores and hundreds of gigabytes of Redis memory while enabling complex, near‑real‑time user‑behavior analyses and scalable data‑import, rebalancing, and compression optimizations.

ClickHouseFlinkIceberg
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Technical Evolution of Bilibili's PolarStar User Behavior Analysis Platform
Alibaba Cloud Big Data AI Platform
Alibaba Cloud Big Data AI Platform
Jan 10, 2023 · Big Data

How Alibaba’s Dolphin Engine Uses Flink + Hologres for Real‑Time Big Data

The Dolphin engine, built by Alibaba’s Data Engine team, combines Flink and Hologres to deliver ultra‑large‑scale OLAP, streaming, batch, and AI capabilities for real‑time advertising analytics, offering smart materialization, intelligent indexing, and vector recall while supporting millions of advertisers and petabyte‑level data.

AIBig DataFlink
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How Alibaba’s Dolphin Engine Uses Flink + Hologres for Real‑Time Big Data
DataFunTalk
DataFunTalk
Jan 6, 2023 · Big Data

ZhongAn's Hundred‑Billion‑Scale Data Integration Service: Architecture, Business Support, and Evolution

This article presents the architecture and practical experience of ZhongAn's hundred‑billion‑scale data integration service, covering common integration technologies, business support scenarios for offline and real‑time data, technical challenges, evolution from single‑machine to service‑oriented designs, and future directions using Flink and DataX.

Data IntegrationDataXETL
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ZhongAn's Hundred‑Billion‑Scale Data Integration Service: Architecture, Business Support, and Evolution
Big Data Technology & Architecture
Big Data Technology & Architecture
Jan 3, 2023 · Big Data

Migrating Hive SQL Jobs to Flink Using the SQL Gateway

This article explains how to use Apache Flink 1.16's SQL Gateway to migrate Hive SQL tasks to Flink, covering the underlying Hive‑on‑Flink architecture, dialect compatibility, streaming and batch demos, configuration details, and practical tips for developers and platform engineers.

Batch ProcessingBig DataFlink
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Migrating Hive SQL Jobs to Flink Using the SQL Gateway
DataFunTalk
DataFunTalk
Jan 1, 2023 · Big Data

Zhihu's Real-Time Computing Platform: From Skytree 1.0 to Mipha 2.0

Zhihu’s real‑time computing platform, initially built as Skytree 1.0 on Kubernetes and later re‑engineered as Mipha 2.0 with Flink SQL, unified metadata management, dynamic jar loading, UDF support, Protobuf format, CDC integration, and extensive operational optimizations, now processes petabyte‑scale data with high reliability.

FlinkKubernetesReal-Time Computing
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Zhihu's Real-Time Computing Platform: From Skytree 1.0 to Mipha 2.0
Alibaba Cloud Big Data AI Platform
Alibaba Cloud Big Data AI Platform
Dec 30, 2022 · Big Data

How Manbang Built a Cloud‑Native Real‑Time Data Platform with Flink & Hologres

Manbang's logistics platform leverages a cloud‑native architecture built on Alibaba Cloud Flink and Hologres to deliver minute‑level real‑time data, feature computation, and decision‑making that dramatically improves SLA, reduces operational costs, and powers intelligent driver‑cargo matching across the ecosystem.

FlinkHologrescloud-native
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How Manbang Built a Cloud‑Native Real‑Time Data Platform with Flink & Hologres
Big Data Technology & Architecture
Big Data Technology & Architecture
Dec 28, 2022 · Big Data

Flink 1.16 Highlights: Adaptive Batch Scheduling, Speculative Execution, Hybrid Shuffle, Dynamic Partition Pruning, Hive SQL Migration, Checkpoint Enhancements, CDC Integration, and Table Store

Flink 1.16 introduces adaptive batch scheduling, speculative execution, hybrid shuffle, dynamic partition pruning, improved Hive SQL compatibility, advanced checkpoint mechanisms including changelog backend, and integrates CDC with Kafka and Table Store, offering faster, more stable, and easier-to-use stream‑batch processing capabilities.

Big DataCDCCheckpoint
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Flink 1.16 Highlights: Adaptive Batch Scheduling, Speculative Execution, Hybrid Shuffle, Dynamic Partition Pruning, Hive SQL Migration, Checkpoint Enhancements, CDC Integration, and Table Store
DataFunTalk
DataFunTalk
Dec 27, 2022 · Big Data

Multi‑Stream Join and Concurrency Control in Apache Hudi: Design, Implementation, and Usage

This article presents a comprehensive solution for multi‑stream joins in Apache Hudi, detailing the challenges of dimension and multi‑stream joins, the novel storage‑layer join approach, timeline‑based concurrency control, marker mechanisms, early conflict detection, payload customization, and practical usage with Flink and Spark, along with performance benefits and future directions.

Apache HudiFlinkMarkers
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Multi‑Stream Join and Concurrency Control in Apache Hudi: Design, Implementation, and Usage
Tencent Advertising Technology
Tencent Advertising Technology
Dec 27, 2022 · Big Data

Design and Optimization of Tencent Advertising Log Data Lake Using Iceberg, Spark, and Flink

The article details how Tencent Advertising re‑architected its massive log pipeline by consolidating heterogeneous real‑time and offline logs into an Iceberg‑based data lake, introducing multi‑level partitioning, Spark and Flink ingestion, and numerous performance and cost optimizations for scalable big‑data analytics.

Big DataFlinkIceberg
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Design and Optimization of Tencent Advertising Log Data Lake Using Iceberg, Spark, and Flink
Data Thinking Notes
Data Thinking Notes
Dec 23, 2022 · Big Data

How Real-Time Data Warehouses Power Modern Business: Architecture, Cases, and Best Practices

This article explains why real‑time data warehouses are becoming essential, outlines their goals, compares them with traditional offline warehouses, and presents detailed design patterns, naming conventions, and case studies from Didi, Kuaishou, Tencent, Youzan and other enterprises, highlighting challenges and solutions for streaming, storage, and query layers.

Big Data ArchitectureETLFlink
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How Real-Time Data Warehouses Power Modern Business: Architecture, Cases, and Best Practices
DataFunTalk
DataFunTalk
Dec 23, 2022 · Big Data

Building a Lakehouse on Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB (ADB) with Apache Hudi: Architecture, Challenges, and Practices

This article presents a comprehensive technical overview of Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB's Lakehouse edition, detailing its unified architecture, key advantages, the challenges of ingesting billions of records with Apache Hudi, and the engineering solutions—including Flink integration, hotspot mitigation, memory optimization, OSS throttling handling, concurrent write support, lifecycle management, and TableService—that enable a cost‑effective, high‑performance lake‑to‑warehouse platform.

Apache HudiFlinkLakehouse
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Building a Lakehouse on Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB (ADB) with Apache Hudi: Architecture, Challenges, and Practices
ITPUB
ITPUB
Dec 21, 2022 · Big Data

How Bilibili Optimized Flink Runtime for Massive Real‑Time Jobs

This article details Bilibili's extensive enhancements to the Flink runtime—including checkpoint recoverability, max‑parallelism calculations, State Processor API extensions, Full and Regional Checkpoints, hybrid HA, task‑level recovery, load‑balanced partitioners, and large‑scale cluster maintenance—to improve reliability and performance of its billion‑scale streaming workloads.

Big DataCheckpointFlink
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How Bilibili Optimized Flink Runtime for Massive Real‑Time Jobs
DataFunTalk
DataFunTalk
Dec 20, 2022 · Big Data

ByteDance's Practices for Tracking Data Governance and Pipeline Management

This article explains ByteDance's end‑to‑end tracking data lifecycle management, including pre‑report validation, the rationale for using BMQ over Kafka, quality governance examples, and how Flink‑based pipelines ensure data accuracy through SLA monitoring and checkpoint strategies.

Data TrackingFlinkMQ
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ByteDance's Practices for Tracking Data Governance and Pipeline Management
ITPUB
ITPUB
Dec 18, 2022 · Big Data

How to Build a Real‑Time Data Warehouse with EasyData: A Step‑by‑Step Guide

Learn how to design and implement a real‑time data warehouse for an app’s AB‑test monitoring using EasyData, covering data flow layers, CDC task creation, stream table registration, Flink SQL processing, and BI reporting, with detailed steps, code snippets, and practical tips.

CDCEasyDataFlink
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How to Build a Real‑Time Data Warehouse with EasyData: A Step‑by‑Step Guide
Big Data Technology & Architecture
Big Data Technology & Architecture
Dec 15, 2022 · Big Data

Migrating Hive SQL to Flink SQL: Motivation, Challenges, Practice, Demo, and Future Plans

This technical article presents a comprehensive overview of migrating Hive SQL to Flink SQL, covering the motivations behind the migration, key challenges such as compatibility, stability and performance, practical implementation steps, a detailed demo, future development directions, and a Q&A session addressing common concerns.

Batch ProcessingBig DataFlink
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Migrating Hive SQL to Flink SQL: Motivation, Challenges, Practice, Demo, and Future Plans
Alibaba Cloud Big Data AI Platform
Alibaba Cloud Big Data AI Platform
Dec 9, 2022 · Operations

How Alibaba’s Flink Cluster Inspector Eliminates Hotspot Machines in Real‑Time Streaming

This article details Alibaba Cloud's Flink Cluster Inspector, explaining the business challenges of hotspot machines, the analysis of resource over‑use, and the four‑stage solution—pre‑profiling, in‑process self‑healing, post‑recovery, and observability—that reduces latency, cuts costs, and improves operational efficiency.

ClusterFlinkHotSpot
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How Alibaba’s Flink Cluster Inspector Eliminates Hotspot Machines in Real‑Time Streaming
DataFunTalk
DataFunTalk
Dec 8, 2022 · Big Data

Arctic: NetEase’s Real-Time Lakehouse System Built on Apache Iceberg

This article introduces NetEase’s Arctic, a real‑time lakehouse system built on Apache Iceberg that unifies streaming and batch processing, explains the challenges of Lambda architecture, details Arctic’s features such as change/base stores, hidden queue, transaction handling, and shares internal practice cases and future roadmap.

Apache IcebergArcticFlink
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Arctic: NetEase’s Real-Time Lakehouse System Built on Apache Iceberg
DataFunSummit
DataFunSummit
Dec 2, 2022 · Big Data

BitSail: ByteDance’s Open‑Source Unified Data Integration Engine – Architecture, Evolution, and Capabilities

BitSail, ByteDance’s open‑source data integration engine, unifies batch, streaming, and incremental data synchronization across heterogeneous sources, detailing its evolution from early Flink‑based prototypes to a mature, plugin‑driven architecture with multi‑engine support, low‑cost co‑development, and robust CDC lakehouse capabilities.

Big DataCDCFlink
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BitSail: ByteDance’s Open‑Source Unified Data Integration Engine – Architecture, Evolution, and Capabilities
Tencent Cloud Developer
Tencent Cloud Developer
Dec 2, 2022 · Big Data

Design and Implementation of a Hundred‑Billion‑Scale Real‑Time Monitoring System

The paper presents the design and deployment of a hundred‑billion‑scale real‑time monitoring platform that meets stringent data‑collection, analysis, storage, alerting and visualization requirements, compares Oceanus + Elastic Stack against a Zabbix‑Prometheus‑Grafana stack, selects the former, and details performance‑and cost‑optimizations that enable massive, low‑latency monitoring while maintaining high availability.

ElasticsearchFlinkMonitoring
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Design and Implementation of a Hundred‑Billion‑Scale Real‑Time Monitoring System
Bilibili Tech
Bilibili Tech
Nov 29, 2022 · Big Data

How Bilibili Supercharged Flink: Checkpoint, HA, and Runtime Optimizations

This article details Bilibili's extensive enhancements to Flink's runtime—including checkpoint recoverability, operator ID stability, state processor extensions, hybrid high‑availability, regional checkpointing, and load‑based channel selection—to improve scalability, reliability, and operational efficiency of large‑scale streaming jobs.

Big DataCheckpointFlink
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How Bilibili Supercharged Flink: Checkpoint, HA, and Runtime Optimizations
DaTaobao Tech
DaTaobao Tech
Nov 23, 2022 · Big Data

Real-time Log Aggregation and Monitoring with Blink (Flink) on Mobile Endpoints

The article explains how Blink, Alibaba’s optimized Flink variant, uses dynamic tables and streaming‑SQL to ingest mobile telemetry via source tables, compute per‑minute metrics such as API success rates with tumbling windows, and write results to Alibaba Cloud Log Service, enabling real‑time dashboards and extensible use cases like fraud detection.

Data ProcessingFlinkSQL
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Real-time Log Aggregation and Monitoring with Blink (Flink) on Mobile Endpoints
21CTO
21CTO
Nov 20, 2022 · Big Data

How Meituan’s Logan Real‑Time Log System Boosts Debugging Across Mobile, Web, and IoT

This article details the design, architecture, and implementation of Meituan's Logan real‑time logging platform, covering its workflow, multi‑terminal collection SDK, ingestion, Flink‑based processing, consumption layers, stability measures, and future roadmap, illustrating how it improves fault diagnosis and system reliability.

ElasticsearchFlinkKafka
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How Meituan’s Logan Real‑Time Log System Boosts Debugging Across Mobile, Web, and IoT
ITPUB
ITPUB
Nov 18, 2022 · Big Data

How Xiaomi Uses Iceberg for Real‑Time Streaming and Batch Data Lakes

This article introduces Iceberg’s table‑format fundamentals, details Xiaomi’s large‑scale deployment of Iceberg for CDC and log ingestion, explores their streaming‑batch integration experiments, outlines future roadmap items, and provides a comprehensive Q&A covering practical challenges and solutions.

Batch ProcessingBig DataFlink
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How Xiaomi Uses Iceberg for Real‑Time Streaming and Batch Data Lakes