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Apache Flink powers business-critical applications in many companies and enterprises around the globe. On this page, we present a few notable Flink users that run interesting use cases in production and link to resources that discuss their applications in more detail.

More Flink users are listed in the Powered by Flink directory in the project wiki. Please note that the list is not comprehensive. We only add users that explicitly ask to be listed.

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Alibaba, the world's largest retailer, uses a fork of Flink called Blink to optimize search rankings in real time.

Read more about Flink's role at Alibaba

BetterCloud, a multi-SaaS management platform, uses Flink to surface near real-time intelligence from SaaS application activity.

See BetterCloud at Flink Forward SF 2017

Bouygues Telecom is running 30 production applications powered by Flink and is processing 10 billion raw events per day.

See Bouygues Telcom at Flink Forward 2016

Capital One, a Fortune 500 financial services company, uses Flink for real-time activity monitoring and alerting.

Learn about Capital One's fraud detection use case

Comcast, a global media and technology company, uses Flink for operationalizing machine learning models and near-real-time event stream processing.

Learn about Flink at Comcast

Criteo is the advertising platform for the open internet and uses Flink for real-time revenue monitoring and near-real-time event processing.

Learn about Criteo's Flink use case

Drivetribe, a digital community founded by the former hosts of “Top Gear”, uses Flink for metrics and content recommendations.

Read about Flink in the Drivetribe stack

Ebay's monitoring platform is powered by Flink and evaluates thousands of customizable alert rules on metrics and log streams.

Learn more about Flink at Ebay

Ericsson used Flink to build a real-time anomaly detector with machine learning over large infrastructures.

Read a detailed overview on O'Reilly Ideas

Huawei is a leading global provider of ICT infrastructure and smart devices. Huawei Cloud provides Cloud Service based on Flink.

Learn about how Flink powers Cloud Service

King, the creators of Candy Crush Saga, uses Flink to provide data science teams a real-time analytics dashboard.

Read about King's Flink implementation

Lyft uses Flink as processing engine for its streaming platform, for example to consistently generate features for machine learning.

Read more about Streaming at Lyft

MediaMath, a programmatic marketing company, uses Flink to power its real-time reporting infrastructure.

See MediaMath at Flink Forward SF 2017

Mux, an analytics company for streaming video providers, uses Flink for real-time anomaly detection and alerting.

Read more about how Mux is using Flink

Otto Group, the world's second-largest online retailer, uses Flink for business intelligence stream processing.

See Otto at Flink Forward 2016

ResearchGate, a social network for scientists, uses Flink for network analysis and near-duplicate detection.

See ResearchGate at Flink Forward 2016

Telefónica NEXT's TÜV-certified Data Anonymization Platform is powered by Flink.

Read more about Telefónica NEXT

Uber built their internal SQL-based, open-source streaming analytics platform AthenaX on Apache Flink.

Read more on the Uber engineering blog

Yelp utilizes Flink to power its data connectors ecosystem and stream processing infrastructure.

Find out more watching a Flink Forward talk

Zalando, one of the largest e-commerce companies in Europe, uses Flink for real-time process monitoring and ETL.

Read more on the Zalando Tech Blog