fhueske commented on a change in pull request #8607: [FLINK-12652] [documentation] add first version of a glossary URL: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/8607#discussion_r291627017
########## File path: docs/concepts/glossary.md ########## @@ -0,0 +1,166 @@ +--- +title: Glossary +nav-pos: 3 +nav-title: Glossary +nav-parent_id: concepts +--- +<!-- +Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one +or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file +distributed with this work for additional information +regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file +to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the +"License"); you may not use this file except in compliance +with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at + + http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 + +Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, +software distributed under the License is distributed on an +"AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY +KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the +specific language governing permissions and limitations +under the License. +--> + +#### Flink Application Cluster + +A Flink Application Cluster is a dedicated [Flink Cluster](./glossary#flink-cluster) that only +executes a single [Flink Job](./glossary#flink-job). The lifetime of the +[Flink Cluster](./glossary#flink-cluster) is bound to the lifetime of the Flink Job. Formerly +Flink Application Clusters were also known as Flink Clusters in *job mode*. Compare to +[Flink Session Cluster](./glossary#flink-session-cluster). + +#### Flink Cluster + +The distributed system consisting of (typically) one Flink Master process and one or more Flink +Taskmanagers processes. + +#### Event + +An event is a statement about a change of the state of the domain modelled by the +application. Events can be input and/or output of a stream or batch processing application. +Events are special types of [records](./glossary#Record) Review comment: Add `.` at the end ---------------------------------------------------------------- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: us...@infra.apache.org With regards, Apache Git Services
