I'd be happy to read such a blog. Big +1 as a potential reader. ;-) – Ufuk
On Mon, Mar 2, 2020 at 11:53 AM Arvid Heise <ar...@ververica.com> wrote: > Dear devs, > > development speed of Flink has steadily increased. Lots of new concepts are > introduced and technical debt removed. However, it's hard to keep track of > these things if you are not directly involved. Especially for new > contributors, it's often not easy to know what the best practices are or if > there are related work streams going on. > > In the runtime team, we had the idea to set up a dev blog where we could > introduce newest developments. The scope should be expert users that > contribute to the project. Of course, some articles may have a broader > scope and even be linked from release notes. > > Examples from our team to give a more specific idea: > * Deprecated checkpoint lock and mailbox model > * Revised interface for two phase commit sinks and new JDBC sink > * N-ary input operators > * Unaligned checkpoints > * Operator factories > * Plugins > > These articles would be less formal than a FLIP (but could link to them to > avoid redundancy) and focus more on how other developers are actually > impacted by the changes. It can also be used to share experiences during > the implementation. > > We would like to ask the other teams if they see a benefit of such a blog > and would like to contribute. Bonus points if you could provide examples of > your topics. > > Best, > > Arvid >
