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Reddit's 2021 home feed will include recommendations beyond user subscriptions
“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.”
Reddit runs production on AWS and analytics/ML on GCP
“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”
Reddit isolates malformed data events in an automated penalty box
“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 …”
Reddit is leaning heavily into becoming a Kafka shop for streaming
“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”
Hanlon: Reddit uses a hub-and-spoke model for data science
“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…”