e directly possible with the Window API.</p>
<p>The goal of this blog post was to illustrate the power and flexibility
of Apache Flink&rsquo;s APIs. At the core of it are the pillars of Flink, that
spare you, as a developer, very significant amounts of work and
generalize well to a wide range of use cases by providing:</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Efficient data exchange in a distributed cluster</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Horizontal scalability via data partitioning</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fault-tolerant state with quick, local acces