Hi Gordon (and others), I'm also using this project for stateful messaging, including messaging among functions.
I've contributed a small amount of code in the past and have also enabled Flink 1.15 compatibility in a local fork, so I might be able to help out here. Thanks, Galen On Wed, Oct 26, 2022 at 1:34 PM Ken Krugler <kkrugler_li...@transpac.com> wrote: > Hi Gordon, > > We’re using it for stateful messaging, and also calling remote > Python-based functions. > > So yes, also very interested in what is going to happen with the this > subproject in the future. > > — Ken > > > > > Begin forwarded message: > > > > From: "Tzu-Li (Gordon) Tai" <tzuli...@apache.org> > > Subject: Re: Stateful Functions with Flink 1.15 and onwards > > Date: October 26, 2022 at 10:25:26 AM PDT > > To: dev@flink.apache.org > > Reply-To: dev@flink.apache.org > > > > Hi Filip, > > > > Thanks for bringing this up. > > > > The hard truth is that committers who were previously active on the > > StateFun subproject, including myself, all currently have other focuses. > > Indeed, we may need to discuss with the community on how to proceed if > > there seems to be no continued committer coverage. > > > > If it's just a matter of upgrading the supported Flink version, I'm still > > familiar enough with the subproject to probably be able to drive this (or > > if your team is up to it, I can assist you on that). > > > > For the long-term, as a data point I'm curious to see how many users are > > using StateFun in production today, and how you're using it? > > > > - Do your applications have arbitrary / cyclic / bi-directional > > messaging between individual functions? > > - Or are you utilizing StateFun simply to allow your stateful functions > > to run remotely as separate processes? > > > > If the majority is only the latter category, there might be a case to > > support remote functions natively in Flink (which has been a discussion > in > > the past). > > > > Thanks, > > Gordon > > > > On Wed, Oct 26, 2022 at 3:30 AM Filip Karnicki <filip.karni...@gmail.com > > > > wrote: > > > >> Hi, I noticed that the development on stateful functions has come to a > bit > >> of a halt, with a pull request to update statefun to use Flink 1.15 > being > >> in the `open` state since May 2022. > >> > >> What do we think is the future of this sub-project? > >> > >> The background to this question is that my team is on a shared Flink > >> cluster which will soon be upgrading to Flink 1.15. If I need to > re-write > >> all our code as a native Flink job (rather than a remote stateful > function) > >> then I need to get started right away. > >> > >> Many thanks, > >> Fil > >> > > -------------------------- > Ken Krugler > http://www.scaleunlimited.com > Custom big data solutions > Flink, Pinot, Solr, Elasticsearch > > > >
