Flink

Back-end & Platform Engineering Technology Enabler

Apache Flink represents a revolution in the field of real-time data processing, establishing itself as the open source framework of choice. This technology allows companies to process and analyze large volumes of data with minimal latency, while guaranteeing reliability and scalability.

Over the years, Bitrock has developed unique expertise in applying this technology to a wide range of scenarios. We offer consulting, development and support services to help companies maximize Flink’s potential to gain real-time insights from their data.

OVERVIEW

Flink is a tool for processing large amounts of data in real time. It allows you to create customized data processing flows by acquiring information from different sources, such as files and databases, and routing it to various destinations for analysis and processing. In addition, Flink supports complex transformations such as aggregations, joins between flows, and windowing on streaming data.

The fault tolerance of Flink is based on state saving mechanisms, such as periodic checkpoints and savepoints, to create snapshots of the application state, allowing automatic recovery in case of failures and guaranteeing processing continuity.

solution

Apache Flink is the ideal platform for modern data-driven architectures. Thanks to its scalable and flexible architecture, Flink allows you to build data-intensive applications capable of adapting to dynamic and complex workloads. Its distinctive features include:

  • Optimized Performance: In-Memory processing and automatic query optimization allow for high performance even with large datasets.
  • Massive Scalability: Flink can be distributed across thousands of nodes, managing terabytes of data and dynamically adapting to available resources.
  • Enterprise-Grade Reliability: Checkpoint and automatic recovery mechanisms guarantee operational continuity and data consistency, even in case of failure.
  • Operational Flexibility: It integrates with different technological ecosystems and can be deployed in cloud, on-premise or hybrid environments.
  • Interoperability: It offers a wide range of connectors to integrate heterogeneous systems.
 

The advantages of adopting Flink are many and significant for modern companies. The implementation of this technology allows for a significant acceleration of time-to-market for data-intensive applications, together with a substantial reduction in operating costs and an optimization of available resources. The use of Flink also allows for a significant improvement in decision-making quality thanks to real-time analytics, paving the way for the enablement of new business models and intelligent services that fully exploit the potential of IoT and Machine Learning.

use cases

Flink is the ideal choice for companies that need to analyze large volumes of data in motion and make decisions in real time. Its distributed and fault-tolerant architecture makes it particularly suitable for business-critical applications.

fraud detection

Thanks to its ability to process streaming data from different sources and apply complex analysis logics, Flink is widely used in scenarios such as fraud detection, where it is essential to identify suspicious activity in real time. Its dynamic scaling and exactly-once processing capabilities ensure system reliability, even during peak loads.

FINANCIAL SECTOR

Where banks use Flink to monitor credit card transactions. The system analyzes parameters such as transaction frequency, geographical location and amount in real time, comparing them with the customer’s historical patterns. A European bank has implemented a Flink system that processes over 1 million transactions per second, identifying potential fraud with a latency of less than 100 milliseconds.

TELECOMMUNICATion sector

Operators use Flink for service quality analysis. The system monitors parameters such as latency, packet loss and bandwidth, processing data from millions of connected devices. This allows network problems to be identified and resolved proactively, improving the user experience.

E-COMMERCE sector

Companies such as Alibaba use Flink for their real-time recommendation system. The framework processes users’ browsing data, recent purchases and market trends to dynamically update product suggestions, processing terabytes of data per day.

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Franco Geraci

Franco Geraci

Head of Engineering

Bonelli Daniele

Daniele Bonelli

Team Lead Engineering

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