Re: TCP streams to multiple clients

2020-04-08 Thread Robert Metzger
Hey Nick, Yes, Flink is able to send data to many destinations (we call them sinks). You don't need to manually replicate the data. In pseudocode, it would look like this: DataStream stream = env.source(ProxyReader()) // potentially do data processing such as filtering, cleaning, windowing, .. on

TCP streams to multiple clients

2020-04-07 Thread Simec, Nick
I'd like to put flink on a proxy server to read in a stream from an external source and then distribute that stream to multiple servers. Is that possible with Flink? Would I have to replicate the data or anything? I want source -> proxy-server -> (FLINK) -> -> -> -> -> 5 servers Flink reads th