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Pinterest Uses Event Time Watermarks to Finalize Petabyte Scale Data Partitions

Leela Kumili — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 14:37:00 GMT

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 sufficiently complete for processing.

By Leela Kumili

AWS Reworks EventBridge Custom Buses for Enterprise-Scale Event-Driven Architectures

Craig Risi — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

AWS has introduced an enhanced Custom Event Bus for Amazon EventBridge, targeting a problem that often emerges when event-driven architectures move beyond a single team or AWS account: the event infrastructure itself becomes fragmented.

By Craig Risi

AWS Introduces Enhanced Custom Event Buses for EventBridge

Renato Losio — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 06:35:00 GMT

AWS recently announced enhanced custom event buses for Amazon EventBridge, allowing organizations to share a centralized bus across accounts with ordered delivery, simplified subscriber management, event replay, content-based deduplication, and a new publisher/subscriber-based pricing model.

By Renato Losio

Cloudflare K2 Builds Event Streams on R2 Object Storage, at a Second of Produce Latency

Steef-Jan Wiggers — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 05:06:00 GMT

Cloudflare has launched K2 in public beta, a serverless event streaming service implementing a durable log on R2 object storage. Cloudflare states produce latency of about one second at p99; a tester reported end-to-end p99 of 7.5 seconds, which a commenter answering for the team said was higher than expected. Consume charges match produce charges per GB.

By Steef-Jan Wiggers