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Product announcements, engineering deep-dives, and customer stories from the Punchbowl team.

Product February 18, 2026

Introducing Punchbowl v4.0: The most significant release in our history

Today we're announcing v4.0 of the Punchbowl platform — a ground-up redesign of our analytics engine, new multi-region active-active architecture, and the launch of our natural-language query interface. Here's everything you need to know.

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Jordan Liu

CEO & Co-founder

Engineering February 11, 2026

How we achieved sub-50ms p99 latency across five global regions

Building a globally distributed system that feels local is hard. In this deep-dive, our infrastructure team walks through the routing layer, cache hierarchy, and consensus protocol changes that shaved 80% off our tail latency over 18 months.

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Anika Kapoor

VP Engineering

Customer Story January 28, 2026

How Stratum Group reduced operational costs by 34% in 90 days

When Stratum Group's COO Sarah Reinhardt set a goal to cut costs without cutting headcount, the answer wasn't another spreadsheet. It was Punchbowl. Here's how they did it.

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Sarah Reinhardt

COO, Stratum Group

Security January 14, 2026

Zero-trust by default: Why we rebuilt our auth layer from scratch

Legacy perimeter-based security models assume that anything inside the network is trusted. In 2026, that assumption is dangerous. Here's how we redesigned Punchbowl's authentication and authorization layer around zero-trust principles — and what it means for you.

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Marcus Weller

Head of Security

Product December 19, 2025

Announcing 40 new integrations — including Snowflake, Databricks, and SAP

Connectivity is table stakes. We just added 40 new pre-built connectors to the Punchbowl marketplace, with Snowflake streaming sync, full Databricks Unity Catalog support, and SAP S/4HANA integration available today.

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Priya Ramaswamy

Product Manager

Engineering November 30, 2025

Building our ML pipeline: from prototype to 10 billion events per day

Our predictive analytics engine processes over 10 billion events daily. Starting from a Python prototype that crashed at 100k events, here's the full story of how we got there — including the three complete rewrites and the hard lessons along the way.

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Tariq Nasser

Staff ML Engineer