Author: Dave Troiano

Confluent Cloud for Apache Flink®️ supports AI model inference and enables the use of models as resources in Flink SQL, just like tables and functions. You can use a SQL statement to create a model resource and invoke it for inference in streaming queries.

Learn why data at rest sometimes needs to be transformed into a stream of data, and learn how to turn a REST API into a data stream using Apache Flink and Apache Kafka. Along the way, you’ll also find out the advantages of having your REST API data in streaming format.

Learn about the role of batch.size and linger.ms in Kafka message compression.