Apache Flink® FAQs
Here are some of the questions that you may have about Apache Flink and its surrounding ecosystem.
If you’ve got a question that isn’t answered here then please do ask the community.
What is Apache Flink?
Apache Flink® is a powerful, scalable stream processing framework for running stateful, low-latency streaming applications on large volumes of data. Flink excels at high-performance, mission-critical streaming workloads and is used by many companies for production stream processing applications. Flink is the de facto industry standard for stream processing.
How do I learn Flink?
To get started with Flink check out the free Flink 101 training course, join the community, and try the quick start.
What is Flink used for?
Flink is used to power event-driven applications, such as
- Fraud detection
- Anomaly detection
- Rule-based alerting
- Business process monitoring
as well as for building data products.
How do Flink and Kafka fit together?
Flink is designed to process event streams, and it relies on other systems, such as Kafka, to store those event streams. Flink uses the Kafka client library to read and write events stored in Kafka.
Learn more with these free training courses
Apache Flink® 101
Learn how Flink works, how to use it, and how to get started.