Re: Question on watermark

2017-06-16 Thread Haibo Chen
Thanks for the clarification, Ben! That makes a lot of sense to me. On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 2:50 PM, Ben Chambers wrote: > Your understanding seems roughly correct. When the watermark is talked > about as a timestamp or "one dimensional" concept it is because we're > implicitly talking about the

Re: Question on watermark

2017-06-15 Thread Ben Chambers
Your understanding seems roughly correct. When the watermark is talked about as a timestamp or "one dimensional" concept it is because we're implicitly talking about the watermark *at the current processing time*. As the current processing time moves forward, the value of the watermark changes too.

Question on watermark

2017-06-15 Thread Haibo Chen
Hi all, While I was going over The Beam Model [model evolution] to learn the basics of the model, I found the explanation of watermark (in slide 27), "No timestamp earlier than the w