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 layout: post
 title:  "April 2015 in the Flink community"
 date:   2015-05-14 10:00:00
 categories: news
 author: "Kostas Tzoumas"
 author-twitter: "kostas_tzoumas"
 excerpt: "<p>The monthly update from the Flink community. Including the availability of a new preview release, lots of meetups and conference talks and a great interview about Flink.</p>"
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 April was an packed month for Apache Flink.

 ## Flink 0.9.0-milestone1 release

 The highlight of April was of course the availability of [Flink 0.9-milestone1]({{site.baseurl}}/news/2015/04/13/release-0.9.0-milestone1.html). This was a release packed with new features, including, a Python DataSet API, the new SQL-like Table API, FlinkML, a machine learning library on Flink, Gelly, FLink's Graph API, as well as a mode to run Flink on YARN leveraging Tez. In case you missed it, check out the [release announcement blog post]({{site.baseurl}}/news/2015/04/13/release-0.9.0-milestone1.html) for details

 ## Conferences and meetups

 April kicked off the conference season. Apache Flink was presented at ApacheCon in Texas ([slides](http://www.slideshare.net/fhueske/apache-flink)), the Hadoop Summit in Brussels featured two talks on Flink (see slides [here](http://www.slideshare.net/AljoschaKrettek/data-analysis-with-apache-flink-hadoop-summit-2015) and [here](http://www.slideshare.net/GyulaFra/flink-streaming-hadoopsummit)), as well as at the Hadoop User Groups of the Netherlands ([slides](http://www.slideshare.net/stephanewen1/apache-flink-overview-and-use-cases-at-prehadoop-summit-meetups)) and Stockholm. The brand new [Apache Flink meetup Stockholm](http://www.meetup.com/Apache-Flink-Stockholm/) was also established.

 ## Google Summer of Code

 Three students will work on Flink during Google's [Summer of Code program](https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2015) on distributed pattern matching, exact and approximate statistics for data streams and windows, as well as asynchronous iterations and updates.

 ## Flink on the web

 Fabian Hueske gave an [interview at InfoQ](http://www.infoq.com/news/2015/04/hueske-apache-flink?utm_campaign=infoq_content&utm_source=infoq&utm_medium=feed&utm_term=global) on Apache Flink.

 ## Upcoming events

 Stay tuned for a wealth of upcoming events! Two Flink talsk will be presented at [Berlin Buzzwords](http://berlinbuzzwords.de/15/sessions), Flink will be presented at the [Hadoop Summit in San Jose](http://2015.hadoopsummit.org/san-jose/). A [training workshop on Apache Flink](http://www.meetup.com/Apache-Flink-Meetup/events/220557545/) is being organized in Berlin. Finally, [Flink Forward](http://flink-forward.org), the first conference to bring together the whole Flink community is taking place in Berlin in October 2015.
	---
	layout: post
	title: "April 2015 in the Flink community"
	date: 2015-05-14 10:00:00
	categories: news
	author: "Kostas Tzoumas"
	author-twitter: "kostas_tzoumas"
	excerpt: "<p>The monthly update from the Flink community. Including the availability of a new preview release, lots of meetups and conference talks and a great interview about Flink.</p>"
	---


	April was an packed month for Apache Flink.

	## Flink 0.9.0-milestone1 release

	The highlight of April was of course the availability of [Flink 0.9-milestone1]({{site.baseurl}}/news/2015/04/13/release-0.9.0-milestone1.html). This was a release packed with new features, including, a Python DataSet API, the new SQL-like Table API, FlinkML, a machine learning library on Flink, Gelly, FLink's Graph API, as well as a mode to run Flink on YARN leveraging Tez. In case you missed it, check out the [release announcement blog post]({{site.baseurl}}/news/2015/04/13/release-0.9.0-milestone1.html) for details

	## Conferences and meetups

	April kicked off the conference season. Apache Flink was presented at ApacheCon in Texas ([slides](http://www.slideshare.net/fhueske/apache-flink)), the Hadoop Summit in Brussels featured two talks on Flink (see slides [here](http://www.slideshare.net/AljoschaKrettek/data-analysis-with-apache-flink-hadoop-summit-2015) and [here](http://www.slideshare.net/GyulaFra/flink-streaming-hadoopsummit)), as well as at the Hadoop User Groups of the Netherlands ([slides](http://www.slideshare.net/stephanewen1/apache-flink-overview-and-use-cases-at-prehadoop-summit-meetups)) and Stockholm. The brand new [Apache Flink meetup Stockholm](http://www.meetup.com/Apache-Flink-Stockholm/) was also established.

	## Google Summer of Code

	Three students will work on Flink during Google's [Summer of Code program](https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2015) on distributed pattern matching, exact and approximate statistics for data streams and windows, as well as asynchronous iterations and updates.

	## Flink on the web

	Fabian Hueske gave an [interview at InfoQ](http://www.infoq.com/news/2015/04/hueske-apache-flink?utm_campaign=infoq_content&utm_source=infoq&utm_medium=feed&utm_term=global) on Apache Flink.

	## Upcoming events

	Stay tuned for a wealth of upcoming events! Two Flink talsk will be presented at [Berlin Buzzwords](http://berlinbuzzwords.de/15/sessions), Flink will be presented at the [Hadoop Summit in San Jose](http://2015.hadoopsummit.org/san-jose/). A [training workshop on Apache Flink](http://www.meetup.com/Apache-Flink-Meetup/events/220557545/) is being organized in Berlin. Finally, [Flink Forward](http://flink-forward.org), the first conference to bring together the whole Flink community is taking place in Berlin in October 2015.