Hi Henry, Batch mode is a new execution mode for batch Flink jobs where instead of pipelining the whole execution the job is scheduled in stages, thus materializing the intermediate result before continuing to the next operators. For implications see [1].
[1] http://www.slideshare.net/KostasTzoumas/flink-internals, page 18-21. On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 11:39 PM, Henry Saputra <henry.sapu...@gmail.com> wrote: > HI Stephan, > > What is "Batch mode" feature in the list? > > - Henry > > On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 5:03 AM, Stephan Ewen <se...@apache.org> wrote: > > Hi all! > > > > ApacheCon is coming up and it is the 15th anniversary of the Apache > > Software Foundation. > > > > In the course of the conference, Apache would like to make a series of > > announcements. If we manage to make a release during (or shortly before) > > ApacheCon, they will announce it through their channels. > > > > I am very much in favor of doing this, under the strong condition that we > > are very confident that the master has grown to be stable enough (there > are > > major changes in the distributed runtime since version 0.8 that we are > > still stabilizing). No use in a widely announced build that does not have > > the quality. > > > > Flink has now many new features that warrant a release soon (once we > fixed > > the last quirks in the new distributed runtime). > > > > Notable new features are: > > - Gelly > > - Streaming windows > > - Flink on Tez > > - Expression API > > - Distributed Runtime on Akka > > - Batch mode > > - Maybe even a first ML library version > > - Some streaming fault tolerance > > > > Robert proposed to have a feature freeze mid Match for that. His > > cornerpoints were: > > > > Feature freeze (forking off "release-0.9"): March 17 > > RC1 vote: March 24 > > > > The RC1 vote is 20 days before the ApacheCon (13. April). > > For the last three releases, the average voting time was 20 days: > > R 0.8.0 --> 14 days > > R 0.7.0 --> 22 days > > R 0.6 --> 26 days > > > > Please share your opinion on this! > > > > > > Greetings, > > Stephan >
