blogpost about graduation

Author: zkaoudi

blog/2025-12-11-graduation.md

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+slug: wayang-graduation
+title: Apache Wayang Graduation
+authors: zkaoudi
+tags: [wayang, ASF, graduation, TLP]
+---
+
+# Apache Wayang Graduates to a Top-Level Project!
+
+The Apache Wayang community is proud to announce a major milestone in our journey: **Apache Wayang has officially graduated from the Apache Incubator and is now a Top-Level Project (TLP) at the Apache Software Foundation (ASF)**!
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+This graduation rewards the community-driven effort, research, innovation, and collaboration of many years. It reflects our shared commitment to open-source development and the growing importance of cross-platform data processing in the broader data ecosystem nowadays.
+Graduating as an Apache Top-Level Project is an important recognition of the project’s maturity and ensures that Apache Wayang is backed by the full support and oversight of the ASF, guaranteeing openness, meritocracy, and a sustainable development model for years to come.
+
+---
+
+## What Is Apache Wayang?
+
+Apache Wayang (formerly known as Rheem) is a **cross-platform data processing system** designed to give developers and organizations a unified way to execute pipelines over multiple data processing engines—such as Apache Spark, Apache Flink, PostgreSQL, and more.
+
+Instead of forcing users to choose a single execution backend, Wayang:
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+- **Abstracts data processing engines** through a unified API  
+- **Can automatically choose the best execution platform** based on workload characteristics  
+- **Optimizes performance** by distributing tasks across engines if necessary
+- **Provides a flexible plugin architecture** for integrating new platforms and optimizers  
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+In other words, Wayang enables interoperability across the diverse data landscape and empowers teams to focus on application logic and not infrastructure decisions.
+
+---
+
+## Thank You to Our Community
+
+Apache Wayang wouldn’t exist without its community of developers, users, mentors, and advocates who contributed code, documentation, feedback, and support. A special thanks goes to our Incubator mentors, who helped guide the project through the Apache processes and best practices.
+Your contributions made this milestone possible, and we’re just getting started.
+
+---
+
+## Get Involved!
+
+Whether you want to try Wayang for your next project, contribute code, write documentation, or share your ideas, your participation is welcome. Here’s how to get started:
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+- Explore the documentation  
+- Join our community mailing lists  
+- Contribute to discussions and development  
+- Try Wayang on your data workloads  
+
+
+Welcome to Apache Wayang — where data platforms work together!