Unified Flink Source at Pinterest: Streaming Data Processing

1 · Pinterest · July 15, 2021, 7:05 p.m.
Lu Niu & Chen Qin | Software Engineers, Stream Processing Platform TeamTo best serve Pinners, creators, and advertisers, Pinterest leverages Flink as its stream processing engine. Flink is a data processing engine for stateful computation over data streams. It provides rich streaming APIs, exact-once support, and state checkpointing, which are essential to build stable and scalable streaming applications. Nowadays Flink is widely used in companies like Alibaba, Netflix, and Uber in mission criti...