[ANNOUNCE] Weekly community update #45

[Till Rohrmann <tr...@apache.org>]

Dear community,

this is the weekly community update thread #45. Please post any news and
updates you want to share with the community to this thread.

# First release candidate for Flink 1.7.0

The community has published the first release candidate for Flink 1.7.0
[0]. Please help the community by giving the RC some exposure and report
any problems you might encounter.

# External shuffle service

Zhijiang started a proposal to add support for an external shuffle service
to Flink [1]. Please join the discussion to learn more.

# Flink operators for Kubernetes

Anand from Lyft shared his work on a Flink Kubernetes operator with the
community. If you want to learn more visit this document [2].

# Flink SQL DDL Design

Shuyi kicked off a discussion about adding support for SQL DDL to Flink
[3]. Chime in if you want to voice your opinion.

# Enhancing flink scheduler by implementing blacklist mechanism

Yingjie proposed to add a blacklisting mechanism to Flink [4]. It will
allow to black list unreliable TaskManagers which won't be used for further
scheduling. That way, the job execution will be more reliable.

# Flip-23: Model serving

Boris published his work on the model serving [5] library on Github [6].
Check it out!

# Flink web UI based on Angular 7

Yadong shared a web UI used at Alibaba with the community [7]. It is a
rework of the existing web UI based on Angular 7.

# Flip-27: Refactor source interface

Aljoscha started discussing the design of the new source interface [8].

# Enhance Table API functionality

Xiaowei and Jincheng started discussing potential improvements to Flink's
Table API and streaming SQL [9, 10]. If you want to learn more about the
Table API and streaming SQL's future, then join this discussion.

[0]
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/5383a813b21b67655f1982a48a5d131b213596c20343954f9ef53209@%3Cdev.flink.apache.org%3E
[1]
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/a64497d24b839a4c84dc29ddcf8bf43a34f13984ffa79a9bd64e858c@%3Cdev.flink.apache.org%3E
[2]
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_AITTq0fay-NwUIqNfqN0pum-erOmS_4kYZnlMxw6_o/edit?usp=gmail#heading=h.ge413lh374xj
[3]
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/cb696438e9bf7ff2a44953c438135db3b68ff7f96cff59847df0867d@%3Cdev.flink.apache.org%3E
[4]
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/c0a2057f8171e75734c15a3a45ca5177fce1e04a19b9a02ba064706c@%3Cdev.flink.apache.org%3E
[5]
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLINK/FLIP-23+-+Model+Serving
[6] https://github.com/FlinkML/flink-modelServer
[7] https://github.com/vthinkxie/flink-runtime-web
[8]
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/70484d6aa4b8e7121181ed8d5857a94bfb7d5a76334b9c8fcc59700c@%3Cdev.flink.apache.org%3E
[9]
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/a75f5d0a938333503a0f1881f800d37ba0ec662b44624d4be9c6fdd9@%3Cdev.flink.apache.org%3E
[10]
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/881b34fe79991870c099132b4723dde882cffcfff8e9a1f5bbe92bee@%3Cdev.flink.apache.org%3E


Cheers,
Till