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Why Pinterest Moved to HTTP/3?
About a month ago (Feb 24, 2023), Pinterest published a blog that they moved to HTTP/3 HTTP/3 will help in cases of large payload transmissions such as image/video downloading. (No HOL in HTTP/3) Connection Migration across IP address, such as mobile use cases. (No Handshakes in HTTP/3) Congested network or limited bandwidth. (Less RTT in…
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MemQ Pub/Sub + Kafka @ Pinterest
The story comes from Pinterest in Mid 2020 that used Kafka to publish Logging data to interested parties. Data Flow Systems generating data –> Producer Logging Platform –> Pub/Sub (Kafka) –> Consumer Logging platform–> Extract data from related systems Separating storage and serving components which may have different parameters and requirement Custom replications and rebalancing…