Re: Kafka + Flink, Basic Questions

2016-10-31 Thread Robert Metzger
Hi Matt, This is a fairly extensive question. I'll try to answer all of them, but I don't have the time right now to extensively discuss the architecture of your application. Maybe there's some other person on the ML who can extend my answers. (Answers in-line below) On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at

Kafka + Flink, Basic Questions

2016-10-30 Thread Dromit
Hello, I'm writing an application to generate reports of a real time stream of sale records (product, quantity, price, time) that I get from a websocket, and I plan to use Kafka and Flink to do so. The result of the pipeline should be, for instance, "the average price for a certain product in the