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        <a href="/2016/12/19/apache-flink-in-2016-year-in-review/">Apache Flink in 2016: Year in Review</a>
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    <p><p>2016 was an exciting year for the Apache Flink® community, and the
  <a href="http://flink.apache.org/news/2016/03/08/release-1.0.0.html" target="_blank">release of Flink 1.0 in March</a>
   marked the first time in Flink’s history that the community guaranteed API backward compatibility for all
   versions in a series. Thi