Here is a digestible read on some January activity in the Flink community: http://flink.apache.org/news/2015/02/04/january-in-flink.html
Highlights: - Flink 0.8.0 was released - The Flink community published a technical roadmap for 2015 - Flink was used to scale matrix factorization to extreme scale - Flink's graduation was advertised and picked up by several articles in the press - Flink Streaming won a community vote at the Hadoop Summit Europe - Flink was presented at meetups and events in Paris, the Bay Area, Berlin and FOSDEM in Brussels. - Notable code contributions include an off-heap memory mode, Gelly, Flink's new Graph API, semantic annotations, and a new YARN client.
