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
Confession: I’m not a walking dictionary. If you test me on textbook IT definitions, I might fail. After transitioning through Law and Banking into Tech, I’ve realized that terminology is often just a high-tech "smoke screen" for professional ego. But for many of us, the problem is deeper: it's about the language of logic itself. In my first year of Law school, I spent nights memorizing the "Theor