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The next step was to pre-compute the feeds in Redis.
This solution was easy to setup and maintain, but it got expensive when they needed to store more data in Redis. As the user base grew, the queries to Postgres became slower and it would have been too expensive to move more data into Redis to speed up queries.
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Even though the performance of Cassandra was great, it was complex to optimize it and hard to diagnose it during slowdowns and other issues.
Also, after a point they often found themselves delegating logic to the database layer because it was hard to speed up the performance of Python.
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The first solution was to store all activities in a single Postgres table and build the feed at read-time with a query like:
SELECT * FROM love WHERE user_id IN (...)
This solution ran smoothly up to 10M rows and with some fine tuning it held...
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Next they moved the pre-computed feeds into Cassandra and stored the full activity data in them to avoid having to query Postgres when loading the feed.
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In 2018 they upgraded their architecture again. They haven't disclosed how their data is organized, but they mentioned what technologies they are using.
They replaced Cassandra with Rock...
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Activity feeds show activities from the people you follow and they represent the core of many popular products such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Pinterest.
Feeds are hard to scale because there is no clear way to shard the data across multiple machines. On...
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