title: “Overview of Flink System Architecture & Internals”

This documentation provides an overview of the architecture of the Flink system and its components. It is intended as guide to contributors, and people that are interested in the technology behind Flink.

This documentation is maintained by the contributors of the individual components. We kindly ask anyone that adds and changes components to eventually provide a patch or pull request that updates these documents as well.

Architectures and Components