The Evolution of Data at Reddit
redditblog.com
redditblog.com
Used Redshift for our large data needs. No reason to look to anything else, given our time-shifted data could easily be fit into Redshift. For larger data, we would have to have some other solution.
I'm currently planning something very similar at my company and any reference to how other smaller-scale companies handle this when scaling is invaluable. Are there any other blogs from other companies which have talked about similar things?
These types of posts pop up there pretty frequently
The backdated stuff is weird I'll admit, but they also posted a bunch of things in the last couple days so could be screwing with the ranking algo. I'll check it out.
Did Reddit try setting up Presto? Analytics, not just visualization, with Hive is really hard.
One thing that has made me sad is that there is that Rails / Ruby has little to no support. Many of the repos are over four to five years old.