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ASF GitHub Bot commented on FLINK-2034: --------------------------------------- Github user tillrohrmann commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/688#discussion_r30784588 --- Diff: docs/libs/ml/index.md --- @@ -20,8 +20,100 @@ specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License. --> +The Machine Learning (ML) library for Flink is a new effort to bring scalable ML tools to the Flink +community. Our goal is is to design and implement a system that is scalable and can deal with +problems of various sizes, whether your data size is measured in megabytes or terabytes and beyond. +We call this library FlinkML. + +An important concern for developers of ML systems is the amount of glue code that developers are +forced to write [1] in the process of implementing an end-to-end ML system. Our goal with FlinkML +is to help developers keep glue code to a minimum. The Flink ecosystem provides a great setting to +tackle this problem, with its scalable ETL capabilities that can be easily combined inside the same +program with FlinkML, allowing the development of robust pipelines without the need to use yet +another technology for data ingestion and data munging. + +Another goal for FlinkML is to make the library easy to use. To that end we will be providing +detailed documentation along with examples for every part of the system. Our aim is that developers +will be able to get started with writing their ML pipelines quickly, using familiar programming +concepts and terminology. --- End diff -- A good documentation should be self-evident IMHO. Guess we can merge this paragraph with the previous, can't we? > Add vision and roadmap for ML library to docs > --------------------------------------------- > > Key: FLINK-2034 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-2034 > Project: Flink > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: Machine Learning Library > Reporter: Theodore Vasiloudis > Assignee: Theodore Vasiloudis > Labels: ML > Fix For: 0.9 > > > We should have a document describing the vision of the Machine Learning > library in Flink and an up to date roadmap. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)