This section details a full working example using Flink. Towards the end of this section, it also brings a connection of our use case with Flink and how its features are used.
At the time of authoring this book, we had Flink Release Candidate 3 source code available for download, while official release of Flink 1.3.0 was just about to be released. As we observed Flink Release Candidate 3 (RC3) was versioned as 1.3.0, and its implementation is expected to be very close to the official release of Flink 1.3.0.