Running Flink in Production

  • 8/11/2019
  • One-minute read

Takeaways

  • Invest in checkpointing and savepoints; they are critical for safe upgrades and restarts.
  • Monitor backpressure and task slot utilisation to stay ahead of bottlenecks.
  • Automate job deployment, alerting, and failure recovery to keep operational overhead manageable.

Next Steps

  • Build staging clusters that mirror production capacity for realistic testing.
  • Document on-call runbooks covering job restarts, state recovery, and data replay procedures.
  • Evaluate managed offerings or platforms (e.g., Ververica Platform) if running your own cluster becomes unwieldy.
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