SAR-569 - Add Pinot 2024 review (#139)

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+name: Peter Corless
+occupation: Director of Product Marketing
+---
+
+Apache Pinot.
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+title: 'Apache Pinot Year in Review 2024'
+date: 2024-12-20
+authors: ['corless']
+summary: 'Highlights Apache Pinot’s 2024 achievements, community developments, and future direction for real-time analytics.'
+
+tags:
+    [
+        Apache Pinot,
+        real-time analytics,
+        open source,
+        StarTree,
+        community updates,
+        cloud infrastructure,
+        data ingestion,
+        scalability
+    ]
+---
+
+![Apache Pinot: One of 2024’s Top 3 Big Data and AI Open Source Projects to Watch!](https://startree.ai/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fstartree.wpenginepowered.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2024%2F12%2FPinot-YearinReview24-8.png&w=3840&q=75)
+
+Discover Apache Pinot’s 2024 highlights, including community milestones, performance enhancements, and new integration capabilities. This retrospective offers insight into Pinot’s growth and a glimpse of its roadmap, showcasing how real-time analytics continues to evolve.
+
+Read more at [StarTree](https://startree.ai/resources/apache-pinot-year-in-review-2024)