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Pull request overview

This PR adds a new blog post about Apache Hudi 1.1's async instant time generation feature for Flink writers, including supporting image assets.

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  • New blog post explaining the asynchronous instant generation mechanism that eliminates throughput fluctuations in streaming ingestion
  • Addition of 4 PNG image files illustrating timeline concepts, file slicing mechanisms, TrueTime architecture, and async instant generation workflow

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website/blog/2026-01-09-hudi-11-deep-dive-flink-async-instant-gen.md Main blog post covering background, instant time concepts, completion time, TrueTime API, and async instant generation for Flink writers
website/static/assets/images/blog/2026-01-09-hudi-11-deep-dive-flink-async-instant-gen/truetime.png Image illustrating TrueTime architecture and distributed clock synchronization
website/static/assets/images/blog/2026-01-09-hudi-11-deep-dive-flink-async-instant-gen/file-slicing-instant-time.png Image showing file slicing based on instant time
website/static/assets/images/blog/2026-01-09-hudi-11-deep-dive-flink-async-instant-gen/file-slicing-completion-time.png Image showing file slicing based on completion time

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To address these issues, starting from version 1.0, Hudi introduced a new file slicing model based on a time interval defined by requested time and completion time. In release 1.x, each commit has two important time concepts: requested time and completion time. All generated timestamps are globally monotonically increasing. The timestamp in the log file name is no longer the base instant time, but rather the requested instant time of the write operation. During the file slicing process, Hudi looks up the completion time for each log file using its instant time and applies a new file slicing rule:

> _A log file belongs to the file slice with the maximum base requested time that is less than or equal to the log file's completion time._ [5]
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Missing space between the period and the citation. Should be "time. [5]" instead of "time._[5]"

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