Better to Give and to Receive: Alibaba’s #open-source Contributions to Flink
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Between its #sql and Runtime layers, Alibaba has helped optimize Apache Flink for large-scale production environments like its ownThis article is part of Alibaba’s Flink series.As an open-source framework for big data #computing, Apache Flink has undergone extensive optimization to meet a range of users’ demands for enhancement. For Alibaba Group, where the framework is deployed in a large-scale production environment, the need for these changes has motivated its real-time computing team to contribute many of Flink’s most valuable optimizations, benefiting the Flink community and Alibaba alike.In this article, we look at Alibaba’s contributions in two key aspects of the framework’s architecture, tracing developments including Flink’s Query Processor, BinaryRow, and AsyncOperator (...)
