InfoQ - Data Pipelines

Dropbox Evolves Riviera Content Processing Platform to Support AI Workloads

Leela Kumili — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 14:42:00 GMT

Dropbox has evolved Riviera from a file preview service into a universal content processing platform supporting more than 300 file formats and over 100 transformation capabilities. Processing hundreds of thousands of transformations per second, Riviera now supports Search, Replay, Sign, and Dash, while its APIs enable asynchronous content extraction for AI and RAG workflows.

By Leela Kumili

Netflix Moves toward Open Source Flink Autoscaler for 30,000+ Streaming Jobs

Leela Kumili — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 14:06:00 GMT

Netflix is moving toward the open-source Apache Flink Autoscaler for more than 30,000 streaming jobs across multiple AWS regions. The operator-level approach addresses limitations of Netflix’s cluster level autoscaler for complex, stateful pipelines. Netflix reports a 58% reduction in annualized Flink compute expenditure for one team, saving approximately $1.1 million annually.

By Leela Kumili