Apache Stateful Functions is one of the quietly powerful frameworks in the Flink ecosystem - durable per-key state, exactly-once messaging, polyglot remote functions, all on top of Apache Flink. It's also been functionally dormant since October 2024, and it doesn't run on Flink 2.x. We needed it on Flink 2.x. So we maintained the continuation: kzmlabs/flink-statefun. This post is the why and the h
If you’ve ever waited 12 seconds for a git clone of a 5GB monorepo behind a corporate firewall, you know the cost of poor Git server performance: $47k annual productivity loss for a 50-person engineering team, per our 2024 internal benchmark. For 15 years, I’ve tuned Git infrastructure for teams from 4-person startups to 10k+ engineer orgs, and the debate between lightweight Gitea and feature-heav