Centro processes 3M queries per second and stores 7B audience profiles
Sean Riegsecker · 913 Adtech: Revenues of $110m on $500m Spend, How it breaks down · Jan 23, 2018 · at 18:46
Sean Riegsecker details the technical infrastructure and scale required to power Centro's ad tech platform in real time.
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“Now we're processing about three million single queries and auctions every single second of every single day. At the same point, we have to store Audience profiles. So we have, we're storing about seven billion audience profiles in what we call hot, you know, it's hot storage.”
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