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 <p>This is the blog for the Apache Beam project. This blog contains news and updates
 for the project.</p>
 
+<h3 id="a-classpost-link-hrefblog20170816splittable-do-fnhtmlpowerful-and-modular-io-connectors-with-splittable-dofn-in-apache-beama"><a class="post-link" href="/blog/2017/08/16/splittable-do-fn.html">Powerful and modular IO connectors with Splittable DoFn in Apache Beam</a></h3>
+<p><i>Aug 16, 2017 •  Eugene Kirpichov 
+</i></p>
+
+<p>One of the most important parts of the Apache Beam ecosystem is its quickly
+growing set of connectors that allow Beam pipelines to read and write data to
+various data storage systems (“IOs”). Currently, Beam ships <a href="/documentation/io/built-in/">over 20 IO
+connectors</a> with many more in
+active development. As user demands for IO connectors grew, our work on
+improving the related Beam APIs (in particular, the Source API) produced an
+unexpected result: a generalization of Beam’s most basic primitive, <code class="highlighter-rouge">DoFn</code>.</p>
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 <h3 id="a-classpost-link-hrefblog20170517beam-first-stable-releasehtmlapache-beam-publishes-the-first-stable-releasea"><a class="post-link" href="/blog/2017/05/17/beam-first-stable-release.html">Apache Beam publishes the first stable release</a></h3>
 <p><i>May 17, 2017 •  Davor Bonaci [<a href="https://twitter.com/BonaciDavor">@BonaciDavor</a>] &amp; Dan Halperin 
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