January 2015 in the Flink community

[Kostas Tzoumas <kt...@apache.org>]

Here is a digestible read on some January activity in the Flink community:

http://flink.apache.org/news/2015/02/04/january-in-flink.html

Highlights:

- Flink 0.8.0 was released

- The Flink community published a technical roadmap for 2015

- Flink was used to scale matrix factorization to extreme scale

- Flink's graduation was advertised and picked up by several articles in
the press

- Flink Streaming won a community vote at the Hadoop Summit Europe

- Flink was presented at meetups and events in Paris, the Bay Area, Berlin
and FOSDEM in Brussels.

- Notable code contributions include an off-heap memory mode, Gelly,
Flink's new Graph API, semantic annotations, and a new YARN client.