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Jan 5, 2021 · Big Data

Highlights of Flink Forward Asia 2020: Stream‑Batch Integration, AI Fusion, and Cloud‑Native Advances

The 2020 Flink Forward Asia conference showcased Apache Flink's rapid growth, community milestones, industry adoption, and technical breakthroughs such as unaligned checkpoints, approximate failover, the Nexmark benchmark, stream‑batch unification, AI integration via PyFlink and Alink, and deep cloud‑native support on Kubernetes, illustrated through case studies from Alibaba, Meituan, Kuaishou, and Dell.