Improvements to Flink operations: Snapshots Ownership and Savepoint Formats
Source :
flink.apache.org
Author :
Dawid Wysakowicz & Daisy Tsang
Flink has become a well established data streaming engine and a mature project requires some shifting of priorities from thinking purely about new features towards improving stability and operational simplicity. In the last couple of releases, the Flink community has tried to address some known friction points, which includes improvements to the snapshotting process. Snapshotting takes a global, consistent image of the state of a Flink job and is integral to fault-tolerance and exacty-once proce