Hi, somebody recently asked on the ML for a Cassandra connector:
http://apache-flink-user-mailing-list-archive.2336050.n4.nabble.com/Sink-Cassandra-td4107.html In that thread you'll also find this repository: https://github.com/rzvoncek/flink/tree/2b281120f4206c4fd66bec22090e0b6d62ebb8ad/flink-staging/flink-cassandra On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 2:20 PM, Stefano Baghino < stefano.bagh...@radicalbit.io> wrote: > Hi Robert, > > thanks for the quick reply and for the tips. > > Most of my past experience has been on geographical information systems, > I'm currently evaluating the possibility of making some experiments at > using Flink to process georeferenced data. > > Cassandra is a very interesting area and we'll surely look into it, do you > know of any active effort to bring a Cassandra connector to Flink? > > > On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 12:15 PM, Robert Metzger <rmetz...@apache.org> > wrote: > > > Hi Stefano, > > > > awesome news. New contributors are always very welcome. I saw recently > that > > you've recently looked into different starter issues, but you were a bit > > out of luck because others were already working on them. > > > > I saw your request on the "Rework examples" issue. I'll respond to it > soon. > > > > I think an interesting field for new contributors are connectors to other > > systems. > > For example the elastic search connector is lacking a source. There were > > also requests for a connector to Cassandra. > > > > But it also depends on what you are interested in. If you have a lot of > > experience with a certain field or system, you can maybe bring that > > knowledge to the Flink community. > > > > Regards, > > Robert > > > > > > On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 11:55 AM, Stefano Baghino < > > stefano.bagh...@radicalbit.io> wrote: > > > > > Hello everyone, > > > > > > I’m Stefano Baghino and I’m a Software Engineer at Radicalbit ( > > > www.radicalbit.io). Our company is working on a brand new OSS > > distribution > > > focused on distributed, low-latency processing (“Fast Data”). Flink > will > > > play a pivotal role on our platform and we’re starting to work on > > > integrating it with the other components. As part of this effort I and > a > > > couple of colleagues are getting a deeper understanding of Flink; we’re > > > also looking forward to become active contributors. > > > > > > I and Andrea Sella would like to contribute on the whole platform, > > starting > > > from the APIs; Simone Robutti (that will join us in February) will > focus > > on > > > FlinkML. > > > > > > We’re all actively looking for starter issues to work on, but would > also > > > appreciate some suggestions from the community; if you would like to > > point > > > out areas of interest on which we can work on or cooperate with you, > feel > > > free to give us your feedback. > > > > > > Thank you all in advance, we look forward to join the community as > active > > > contributors! > > > > > > Best, > > > Stefano Baghino > > > > > > > > > -- > > > BR, > > > Stefano Baghino > > > > > > Software Engineer @ Radicalbit > > > > > > > > > -- > BR, > Stefano Baghino > > Software Engineer @ Radicalbit >
