How Uber Cut Data Lake Freshness From Hours to Minutes With Flink

Why Uber moved ingestion from Spark batch to Flink streaming and what it took to run thousands of jobs reliably at petabyte scale.

Jan 02, 2026

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Today we will look at how Uber moved from batch to streaming in their data lake.

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