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Open-source distributed engine for stateful stream and batch processing, used to build real-time data pipelines and event-driven applications.
Iceberg 1.11.0 ships a File Format API that sends Spark, Flink, Hive and plain-Java reads and writes through one registry of format models. A dev.to walkthrough says the file format list stays fixed, so Vortex and Lance still need a change inside Iceberg.
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Restate, the Berlin startup built by Apache Flink's creators, raised a $20 million Series A led by Singular, lifting its total funding to $27 million. The money pays for engineers and a San Francisco commercial hub to sell software that lets AI agents resume work after a crash.
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One SaaS team's rebuild of incident detection on Kafka and Flink cut telemetry lag from over 40 seconds to under 10, according to its CNCF post. Over eighteen months its recall ran from about 60% to 86% and back to 64%, so speed alone says little about which outages get caught.
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Apache Flink covers most of what Google's managed Dataflow does. A dev.to deployment guide prices the swap in prerequisites: cert-manager goes in before the operator, and the exactly-once path ends in a bucket whose keys you hold.
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A GCP walkthrough put Spark, Trino and BigQuery on the same orders table through Google's Iceberg REST catalog. The 409 ConflictException it logged is the part of the demo a production pipeline has to plan for.
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Control Center 2.0 works against unchanged Confluent Platform 7.5 through 7.9 clusters. That compatibility line says the old limit was in the monitoring tier, not the data plane.
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The format ships compaction and expiry primitives without a scheduler. Netflix needed four internal services to cover that gap, and the arithmetic explains why.
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Two decisions made on public mailing lists this week change what a safe lakehouse upgrade plan looks like. Streaming writers and anyone queued behind Parquet 1.18.0 need to re-read their notes.
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AWS published the architecture behind Jumio's real-time feature store. Three of the four problems it starts from are about duplicated definitions and hand-copied code, not milliseconds.
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