Hi Kostas, thank you very much for the fast response. This is what I thought, but now I have clarity :) Thanks a lot.
Best, Nico 2017-03-31 12:23 GMT+02:00 Kostas Kloudas <k.klou...@data-artisans.com>: > Hi Nico, > > No, you can have as many parallel tasks doing async IO operations as you > want. > What the documentation says is that in each one of these tasks, there is > one thread handling > the requests. > > Hope this helps, > Kostas > > On Mar 31, 2017, at 12:17 PM, Nico <nico.franz...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > I have a short question regarding the AsyncFunction of Flink 1.2.0. In the > documentation it says: > > "[...] that the AsyncFunction is not called in a multi-threaded fashion. > There exists only one instance of the AsyncFunction and it is called > sequentially for each record in the respective partition of the stream." > > Does it mean the there is only subtask of the Operator, so the parallelism > is always 1 for this Operator? > > Thank you :) > > Best, > Nico > > >