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Practical Real-time Data Processing and Analytics

You're reading from   Practical Real-time Data Processing and Analytics Distributed Computing and Event Processing using Apache Spark, Flink, Storm, and Kafka

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787281202
Length 360 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Shilpi Saxena Shilpi Saxena
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Saurabh Gupta Saurabh Gupta
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Preface 1. Introducing Real-Time Analytics FREE CHAPTER 2. Real Time Applications – The Basic Ingredients 3. Understanding and Tailing Data Streams 4. Setting up the Infrastructure for Storm 5. Configuring Apache Spark and Flink 6. Integrating Storm with a Data Source 7. From Storm to Sink 8. Storm Trident 9. Working with Spark 10. Working with Spark Operations 11. Spark Streaming 12. Working with Apache Flink 13. Case Study

Setting up and a quick execution of Flink


There are different ways to set up Flink, that is building from source or downloading and extracting it. Both ways are explained in the following sections.

Build Flink source

Download the source from http://Flink.apache.org/downloads.html or clone Git repository https://github.com/apache/Flink.

To clone from Git, enter the following command:

git clone https://github.com/apache/Flink

Maven 3.0.3 and Java 8 are required to build Flink. Use the following command to build Flink using Maven:

mvn clean install -DskipTests 
If you want to build Flink with different version of hadoop then use: 
mvn clean install -DskipTests -Dhadoop.version=2.6.1

Download Flink

Download the latest version of Flink (1.1.4) from http://Flink.apache.org/downloads.html, as shown in the following screenshot:

Extract the downloaded Flink-1.1.4-bin-hadoop27-scala_2.11.tgz file using the following commands:

mkdir demo 
mv /home/ubuntu/downloads/Flink-1.1.4-bin-hadoop27-scala_2.11.tgz ~/demo...
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