2026 Flink Community Checkpoint
Robert Metzger, Confluent
Thu, Nov 5, 9:30–9:45 AMInnovation Theater
Join this fast-paced session through major themes in the Flink community: What are the most important FLIPs around Flink SQL, core engine improvements or LLMs?
Flink is a big project, it is difficult to keep track of the main developments. In this talk, we will give a high level overview over the most important developments in the community, providing "tl;dr" summaries on important topics so that you can decide what to dive deeper on.
Attendees will get a good overview over the recent and upcoming developments in Flink, and how they relate each other. We won’t be able to go very deep into each FLIP, but attendees will get an overview of what is going on in Flink and which FLIPs are worth exploring further.
Speaker
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Robert Metzger
Principal Engineer, Confluent
Robert Metzger is a committer and PMC member at Apache Flink. Recently, he has focused on improving the deployment and operation experience of Flink, with a focus on autoscaling and generally working towards cloud native Flink.
Robert Metzger is currently a Principal Engineer at Confluent. He previously co-founded and successfully exited data Artisans (now Ververica), the company originally creating and commercializing Flink. He is a frequent speaker at conferences such as the QCon, ApacheCon and meetups around the world.