Hello squirrels, with some colleagues and students here at KTH, we have started 2 projects to evaluate (1) performance and (2) behavior in the presence of memory interference in cloud environments, for Flink and other systems. We want to provide our students with a workload of representative applications for testing.
While for batch applications, it is quite clear to us what classes of applications are widely used and how to create a workload of different types of applications, we are not quite sure about the streaming workload. That's why, we'd like your opinions! If you're using Flink streaming in your company or your project, we'd love your input even more :-) What kind of applications would you consider as "representative" of a streaming workload? Have you run any experiments to evaluate Flink versus Spark, Storm etc.? If yes, would you mind sharing your code with us? We will of course be happy to share our results with everyone after we have completed our study. Thanks a lot! -Vasia.
