Flink as a general reactive application framework

[Atle Prange <at...@gmail.com>]

Hi, i am exploring the possibility to use Flink as the main framework to
drive a (highly reactive) application. I started out with Akka and RxJava,
but it seemed to me that Flink in general supports the same features, but
is more robust and has more potential. I would also get an excellent
runtime platform. Any thoughts? Is Flink "to heavy", or are there other
caveats? When you go for flink you basically leave vanilla java runtime
features behind, and leave it up to Flink to figure out (but also optimize)
threading, concurrency and so on.

-atle