Alibaba Cloud Releases Alink Machine Learning Platform on GitHub CDOTrends

Alibaba Cloud (Alibaba) has released the source code its Alink machine learning platform on GitHub. Developed by Alibaba, Alink offers a broad range of algorithm libraries that support both batch and stream processing, vital for machine learning tasks such as online product recommendation and intelligent customer services. According to Alibaba, Alink was developed based on Flink, a unified distributed computing engine. With seamless unification of batch and stream processing, Alibaba says Alink offers a more effective platform for developers to perform data analytics and machine learning tasks. The platform supports open-source data storage such as Kafka, HDFS and HBase, as well as Alibaba's proprietary data storage format.