On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 10:34 AM, Kostas Kloudas < k.klou...@data-artisans.com> wrote:
> Hello Alfred, > > As a first general remark, Flink was not optimized for multicore > deployments > but rather for distributed environments. This implies overheads > (serialization, > communication etc), when compared to libs optimized for multicores. So > there > may be libraries that are better optimized for those settings if you are > planning > to use just a multicore machine. > > Now for your suggestion: > ... If you're interested in a multi-core option, check out Akka Streams <http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/2.4.17/scala/stream/index.html> or perhaps the underlying Actor Model <http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/2.4.17/scala.html> . -- *Dean Wampler, Ph.D.* VP, Fast Data Engineering <http://lightbend.com> dean.wamp...@lightbend.com @deanwampler <http://twitter.com/deanwampler> https://www.linkedin.com/in/deanwampler https://github.com/deanwampler