REROUTING THE STREAM: HOW LYFT MOVED TO THE APACHE FLINK OPERATOR

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Lyft retired its internally built Flink Kubernetes operator and migrated its streaming fleet to the open-source Apache Flink Kubernetes Operator. The useful lesson is the migration pattern: run both operators in parallel, preserve the user-facing deployment contract, patch gaps such as default restart behavior, and then use the move to simplify ownership and upgrades.