VK Tech: Cloud Flink - Streaming Service

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2024: Cloud Flink Presentation

VK Tech on June 20, 2024 announced the launch of a service for working with streaming data - Cloud Flink. The solution processes arrays of information directly from the source in real time, which is important in the development of highly loaded products and artificial intelligence technologies . The service is based on Apache Flink and Kubernetes developed by VK Cloud.

Cloud Flink is pre-configured, available to run in the cloud in minutes, and requires no additional installation costs. This simplifies the use of the service both in active products and in test tasks. The service allows you to perform thousands of tasks at the same time and automatically allocate available resources. With a sharp increase in the load in the project, Cloud Flink itself will increase the consumption of cloud resources and reduce it when the need decreases.

Based on Cloud Flink, companies can develop IoT systems in which they need to constantly collect information from sensors, process and organize it. Advanced real-time processing capabilities allow you to analyze and respond to patterns of audience behavior. This is relevant in the development of recommendation systems, when it is important to offer the user relevant content on the video platform or the current product on the marketplace in a split second.

Apache Flink is a distributed, fault-tolerant open source information processing platform. To install it, qualified specialists are needed, and integration into the overall architecture of the solution requires significant time and financial investments. Cloud Flink simplifies access to data technologies for both small businesses and large companies. The service is completely ready for operation - it is deployed in the cloud and does not require additional resources for configuration and administration. It is also easy to integrate into the infrastructure and the current project, - said Alexander Vinogradov, director of data services, VK Cloud and Tarantool.

Cloud Flink supports popular big data languages ​ ​ - Java, Python and Scala. The solution easily integrates with other services of the VK Cloud platform. This simplifies the deployment of a comprehensive cloud infrastructure for working with data and allows you to build a data-driven approach in business.