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Pinterest Uses Event Time Watermarks to Finalize Petabyte Scale Data Partitions

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  • InfoQ · October 19, 2026 14:37
    Pinterest has introduced event time-based partition finalization for its database ingestion framework. The mechanism uses Apache Flink to track event time and Apache Iceberg metadata to publish a non-regressing watermark, helping downstream jobs determine when continuously ingested CDC data is…