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Building Native Bitmap Functions for Apache Fluss

How a documentation task opened a six-month journey through Apache governance, Flink internals, and the gap between code that works and code that ships.

GSoC Open Source Apache Fluss Distributed Systems Java RoaringBitmap

August 24, 2026 · 10 min read

What is Apache Fluss? And A GSoC project

Why real-time deduplication is hard, how RoaringBitmaps solve it, and what FIP-37 brings to Apache Fluss.

Apache Fluss Distributed Systems Streaming GSoC Java

May 28, 2026 · 4 min read

My Journey to Google Summer of Code 2026

From a small village in Karnataka to becoming a Google Summer of Code contributor with the Apache Software Foundation.

GSoC Apache Open Source Java Journey

May 5, 2026 · 9 min read