Hi! We are working on more docs for that. Here is a start that has a section about the TaskManager task execution.
Until then, here is a bit from our wiki: Data Exchange: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLINK/Data+exchange+between+tasks Serialization for Data Exchange: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLINK/Type+System%2C+Type+Extraction%2C+Serialization Coordiation with Actors: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLINK/Akka+and+Actors Some WIP documentation on the Task execution: - https://github.com/StephanEwen/incubator-flink/blob/docs/docs/internals/fig/taskmanager_task.svg - https://github.com/StephanEwen/incubator-flink/blob/docs/docs/internals/through_stack.md Greetings, Stephan On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 3:38 PM, Vincenzo Gulisano < vincenzo.gulis...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, is there any document describing how streaming operators are run by > the TaskManagers and how communication (intra-node and inter-node) is > managed. The closest documention I found is > https://ci.apache.org/projects/flink/flink-docs-release-0.9/internals/general_arch.html > but it is still pretty high-level. > > Thank you for your help > > >