Tutorial by Topics: checkpoint

(tested on Flink 1.2 and below) Every function, source or operator in Flink can be stateful. Checkpoints allow Flink to recover state and positions in the streams to give the application the same semantics as a failure-free execution. It is the mecanism behind the guarantees of fault tolerance and...

Savepoints are "fat", externally stored checkpoints that allow us to resume a stateful flink program after a permanent failure, a cancelation or a code update. Before Flink 1.2 and the introduction of externalized checkpoints, savepoints needed to be triggered explicitly.