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Practical Real-time Data Processing and Analytics

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Product type Book
Published in Sep 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787281202
Pages 360 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Toc

Table of Contents (20) Chapters close

Title Page
Credits
About the Authors
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Preface
1. Introducing Real-Time Analytics 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

Flink basic components and processes


As per the official documentation of Flink https://ci.apache.org/projects/flink/flink-docs-release-1.3/concepts/runtime.html and https://ci.apache.org/projects/flink/flink-docs-release-1.3/internals/components.html, the following are some of the processes and basic components of Flink.

Processes: There are two types of processes in Flink, as shown in the following figure:

  • JobManagers (Master): It is responsible for distributing the task among the TaskManagers, maintaining check points and for recovery in case of any failure. To achieve high availability, we need to set up more than one JobManager where one acts as a leader and the other as standby. The leader and standby JobManager are always in sync and in case of leader failure, the standby JobManager becomes the leader.
  • TaskManagers (workers): TaskManagers are responsible for executing the tasks, maintaining buffers for operators, and so on. TaskManager is a JVM process and subtasks are executed in multiple...
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