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Scaling Counting Infrastructure @Quora

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Summary

Chun-Ho Hung and Nikhil Garg discuss Quanta, Quora's counting system powering their high-volume near-real-time analytics that serves many applications like ads, content views, and many dashboards. They describe the high level architecture of Quanta and share their design goals, constraints, choices that enabled them to build it on top of their existing infrastructure systems in the cloud.

Bio

Nikhil Garg is an engineering manager at Quora where he is leading a team of great engineers working on various machine learning and infrastructure problems. Chun-Ho Hung is a Software Engineer at Quora.

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Software is changing the world. QCon empowers software development by facilitating the spread of knowledge and innovation in the developer community. A practitioner-driven conference, QCon is designed for technical team leads, architects, engineering directors, and project managers who influence innovation in their teams.

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Jan 22, 2017

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