Amazon Kinesis makes it easy to speed up the time it takes for you to get valuable, real-time insights from your streaming data. Apache Flink is an open source framework and engine for processing data streams. In this chalk talk, we provide an overview of streaming data, Amazon Kinesis, and Apache Flink. We then go deep into a specific example of when to use Apache Flink for building streaming application. Our customer, John Deere, then dives deep into their specific Amazon Kinesis and Apache Flink use case and discusses best practices for processing streaming data in real time.