Ivan Mushketyk has a few tips for speeding up programs using Apache Flink:
One more way to optimize your Flink application is to provide some information about what your user-defined functions are doing with input data. Since Flink can’t parse and understand code, you can provide crucial information that will help to build a more efficient execution plan. There are three annotations that we can use:
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@ForwardedFields: Specifies what fields in an input value were left unchanged and are used in an output value. -
@NotForwardedFields: Specifies fields that were not preserved in the same positions in the output. -
@ReadFields: Specifies what fields were used to compute a result value. You should only specify fields that were used in computations and not merely copied to the output.
Click through for his four tips.