Pinterest
Pinterest is a visual discovery engine for finding ideas like recipes, home and style inspiration, and more. The user base and the use cases that attract users to the platform have dramatically increased over the years. As of Q1 2022, Pinterest attracts over 433 million monthly active users —and these numbers continue to grow. This growth has resulted in an ever-increasing amount of generated data that requires transportation from the source to various systems, real-time and batch, for ingestion and processing. Pinterest’s huge company-wide data implementation is split into two parts below. Firstly their stable, scalable, efficient, and usable Apache Kafka platform to power business-critical functions at Pinterest. Then the second part talks about, Xenon, their stable and efficient stream processing platform for deploying, monitoring, and maintaining Apache Flink-based applications.