Flink Updates: Topic Actions, Terraform support, GCP and Azure Availability
Feb 27, 2024Derek Nelson

Summary
Introduces 'Topic Actions' for Apache Flink, a feature that simplifies common stream processing tasks like topic deduplication and field masking by generating Flink SQL templates. Details the internal mechanism of Actions, which are templatized SQL statements submitted to Flink. Also announces Terraform support for deploying Flink statements and expanded availability of the managed Flink service to GCP, in addition to existing AWS and Azure support.
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