Hi Fabian, Thank you so much for your quick response, I appreciate it.
Since I'm working with a very large number of files of small sizes, I don't necessarily need to read each file in parallel. I need to read a my large list of files in parallel - that is, split up my list of files into smaller subsets and have each task manager read a subset of them. I implemented it like this: env.fromCollection(fileList).rebalance().flatMap(new ReadFiles()); where ReadFiles is a map function that reads each of the files from S3 using the AWS S3 Java SDK and parses and emits each of the protobufs. Is this implementation an efficient way of solving this problem? Is there a more performant way of reading a large number of files from S3 in a distributed manner, with perhaps env.readFile()? -- Sent from: http://apache-flink-user-mailing-list-archive.2336050.n4.nabble.com/
