Reddit

“So I would not advise to train a production bot on Reddit.”

“You can do stuff for event validation to say, ah, events that don't match certain things get dropped and sort of get put in the penalty box, which we've done and said, okay, developers, you can't actually join these to anything. You can't actually use them if …”

“By the end of the year, the data organization I just described will be probably the third largest organization at Reddit with a 120 or so people.”

“The companies I see, it feels like a number of the startups I see in the space get pressure to expand to be more horizontal solutions. And then frankly, like we want them for one thing, but not for the three other things that they want to do.”

“Redshift feels way behind, whereas a number of years ago, it was fantastic. The core architecture there has not kept up.”

“Last year was the first year that every Reddit surface saw personalization.”

“So, you know, I think we're ending up leaning heavily into being a Kafka shop, building more of the stuff into base plate, into more of these core services”

“I came in, we were doing probably about 55 or sixty billion events a day into a data warehouse that one person was managing.”

“When I got to Reddit overall, I'd say Reddit was maybe 600 people 14 months ago. Right now, oh, maybe 800.”

“Data science is hub and spoke. So so effectively that is all of those folks report into the director of data science, who's, who's one of my team members and, but they actually, when we're in a, when we're in an office setting, they sit with the downstream tea…”

“You'll see this year that the home feed and people's home feed will be breaking the subscription wall and having recommendations in there for people.”

“From the top view, I'd say we're AWS prod with originally a lot of Postgres For a variety of prod systems, we actually transit almost all that stuff over to GCP, and we use TensorFlow and BigQuery for our analytics and our model concerns”

“Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and OpenAI all used Reddit's data to train their conversational AI models.”

“These are not the tokens you're going to find online. Like you can't crawl Reddit and find out about what happened on a construction site, right? Nor can you do you know, test time reasoning about it. You can't just, you can simulate all kinds of environments,…”