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Why Flink is so popular
VC Funding
▸ Data Artisans/Ververica
acquired by Alibaba
▸ eventador.io acquired by
Cloudera
▸ Immerok acquired by
Confluent in early 2023 and
Flink integrated in Confluent
Cloud Platform
▸ Other Companies building
managed streaming solutions
on top of Flink like Decodable,
Aiven.io, Deltastream
Strong Community
▸ Community support with
large organizations using
Flink
▸ Also support and contribution
from managed service
providers
▸ Top Apache project in terms
of user activity
USP
▸ Leading choice for large scale
stateful stream processing with
high throughput and low latency
▸ Powerful and battle tested
runtime
▸ Support for multiple
programming languages and
connectors
▸ Streaming first approach for both
stream & batch processing
▸ Useful extensions like Flink CDC,
Flink SQL, Flink ML, PyFlink etc.
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