Presenter - Siyuan Hua, Apache Apex PMC Member & DataTorrent Engineer Apache Apex provides a DAG construction API that gives the developers full control over the logical plan. Some use cases don't require all of that flexibility, at least so it may appear initially. Also a large part of the audience may be more familiar with an API that exhibits more functional programming flavor, such as the new Java 8 Stream interfaces and the Apache Flink and Spark-Streaming API. Thus, to make Apex beginners to get simple first app running with familiar API, we are now providing the Stream API on top of the existing DAG API. The Stream API is designed to be easy to use yet flexible to extend and compatible with the native Apex API. This means, developers can construct their application in a way similar to Flink, Spark but also have the power to fine tune the DAG at will. Per our roadmap, the Stream API will closely follow Apache Beam (aka Google Data Flow) model. In the future, you should be able to either easily run Beam applications with the Apex Engine or express an existing application in a more declarative style.