Thanks Stavros (and everybody else involved) for starting this effort and bringing the discussion back to the mailing list.
As I said before, a model serving module/component would be a great feature for Flink. I see the biggest advantage for such a module in the integration with the other APIs and libraries, such as DataStream, CEP, SQL. A FLIP would be a great way to continue your efforts and work on a design for the component. However, we should keep in mind that we need a committer to bootstrap the new module. As people are contributing to the model serving module, the number of committers should hopefully grow after some time. Best, Fabian 2017-06-30 10:58 GMT+02:00 Stavros Kontopoulos <st.kontopou...@gmail.com>: > Hi all, > > After coordinating with Theodore Vasiloudis and the guys behind the Flink > Model Serving effort (Eron, Radicalbit people, Boris, Bas (ING)), we > propose to start working on the model serving over Flink in a more official > way. > That translates to capturing design details in a FLIP document. > > Please let's discuss and vote whether you think this FLIP would be viable. > > Model Serving as a Flink component might involve a lot of work and we need > to commit to support it in future Flink releases. > > In the mean time a lot of people have joined Flink ml slack channel ( > https://flinkml.slack.com, https://flinkml-invites.herokuapp.com/) and I > think its time to try get them gradually on board. > > So far we have several efforts hosted here: https://github.com/FlinkML > > Related documents for what we are doing: > > Flink ML roadmap > > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1afQbvZBTV15qF3vobVWUjxQc49h3U > d06MIRhahtJ6dw/edit > > Flink MS > > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CjWL9aLxPrKytKxUF5c3ohs0ickp0 > fdEXPsPYPEywsE/edit# > > PS. I will work on the last document the next few days to consolidate > effort results to some extend and break work down. > Our target is to provide a generic API based on some plugin architecture to > serve different popular models/pipelines along with custom ones over flink. > > Best, > Stavros >