Videos

Introduction

What is Apache Pinot?

Operations

How to set up a Pinot cluster

Apache Pinot on Kubernetes - A Practical Guide

Concepts

Pinot Segment Lifecycle

Segment Assignment in OFFLINE tables

Segment Assignment in REALTIME tables

Apache Pinot 101 Course

A comprehensive video course from StarTree covering Pinot fundamentals, architecture, indexes, ingestion models, the multi-stage query engine, and upserts. Available at the StarTree resources page.

Conference Talks and Meetups

Date	Title
2025/03	SREcon25 Americas - Fully Automated HW SKU Selection System to Optimize Apache Pinot's Cost-to-Serve at LinkedIn
2024	SREcon24 Americas - Strengthening Apache Pinot's Query Processing Engine with Adaptive Server Selection and Runtime Query Killing
2024/09	Azul Tech Talk - Big Data and Real-time Analytics with Apache Pinot - Tim Berglund & Pratik Patel
2023	RTA Summit 2023 - Query Processing Resiliency in Pinot - Vivek Iyer & Jia Guo (LinkedIn)
2023	GOTO Chicago - Introduction to Real-Time Analytics with Apache Pinot - Tim Berglund
2023	GOTO Copenhagen - Making Kafka Queryable with Apache Pinot - Tim Berglund
2023	QCon London - Speed of Apache Pinot at the Cost of Cloud Object Storage with Tiered Storage - Neha Pawar
2023	Current 2023 - Analytics: The Final Data Frontier
2023	Data + AI Summit - Optimizing Speed and Scale of User-Facing Analytics Using Apache Kafka and Pinot
2023/05/10	SF Meetup - Real-Time Analytics with Apache Pinot at Stripe and DoorDash - Lakshmi Rao (Stripe), Will Gan (DoorDash)
2022	Current 2022 - Introduction to Apache Pinot - Tim Berglund
2022	Kafka Summit London - Enabling Product Personalisation Using Apache Kafka, Apache Pinot and Trino
2021	Kafka Summit Europe - Analyzing Petabyte Scale Financial Data with Apache Pinot and Apache Kafka - Xiaoman Dong & Joey Pereira (Stripe)
2021	Kafka Summit Europe - From Events to Blazing-Fast Analytics - Neha Pawar
2021	Kafka Summit APAC - Real-time Analytics with Upsert Using Apache Kafka and Apache Pinot - Yupeng Fu (Uber)
2021	InfoQ - Building Latency Sensitive User Facing Analytics via Apache Pinot - Chinmay Soman (Uber)
2020/09/02	Apache Pinot Virtual Meetup at LinkedIn (Sep 02, 2020)
2020/08/25	Kafka Summit: Apache Pinot Case Study
2019/06/23	Building Real-Time Analytics Applications Using Apache Pinot
2019/04	Data Council SF - Building Real-Time Analytics Applications Using Apache Pinot - Kishore Gopalakrishna
2019/03/27	Supercharged OLAP", a Big Data meetup focused on the LinkedIn analytics stack of Pinot and Presto. Keynote: Shirshanka Das - 4:23 Architecture Overview: Neha Pawar and Jackie Jiang - 22:20 LinkedIn TalentInsights Powered by Pinot: Manzar Kazi and Sunitha Beeram - 34:40 Presto: Shardool - 52:00 Microsoft Teams and Pinot: Vish Balasubramaniam - 1:14:50 The Journey Towards Pinot: Ananth Packkildurai - 1:29:24 Closing Remarks: Ravi Aringunram - 1:43:17 Q&A - 1:48:45
2018/11/21	Scaling the wall of real-time analytics with Pinot
2018/06/05	Uber Tech Day: Powering Real-time Analytics at Uber
2017/04/26	Pinot: Near Real-time Analytics @ Uber

Podcasts

• Data Engineering Podcast, Episode 273 - Accelerate Your Embedded Analytics With Apache Pinot - Kishore Gopalakrishna & Xiang Fu

• The Data Stack Show - Building Pinot for Real-Time, Interactive User Analytics - Kishore Gopalakrishna (StarTree)

• Developer Voices - How Apache Pinot Achieves 200,000 Queries Per Second

• Open Source Data Podcast - Apache Pinot and Real-Time Analytics with Neha Pawar

Online Courses

• Apache Pinot 101 (StarTree) - Free course covering Pinot fundamentals

• Apache Pinot: A Hands on Course (Udemy) - Hands-on course covering cluster setup, Kafka integration, ingestion, and indexing

• Realtime Analytics with Apache Pinot and Apache Flink (Udemy) - Covers Pinot-Flink integration