Apache Beam Blog

This is the blog for the Apache Beam project. This blog contains news and updates for the project.

Feb 25, 2016 - posted by James Malone [@chimerasaurus]

When the Apache Beam project proposed entry into the Apache Incubator the proposal included the Dataflow Java SDK. In the long term, however, Apache Beam aims to support SDKs implemented in multiple languages, such as Python.

Feb 22, 2016 - posted by James Malone [@chimerasaurus]

One of the major benefits of Apache Beam is the fact that it unifies both both batch and stream processing into one powerful model. In fact, this unification is so important, the name Beam itself comes from the union of Batch + strEAM = Beam

When the project started, we wanted a logo which was both appealing and visually represented this unification.