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I recently went through a surgery for treating my sleep apnea. I have documented my experience here. Happy to answer any of your questions https://www.quora.com/profile/Kartik-Sura…

In summary, my struggles with focus, learning, and low energy during the day led me to seek professional help, resulting in a journey over the past 5 years that involved taking sup…

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RIBS2 (Robust Infrastructure for Backend Systems, ver. 2) https://github.com/Adaptv/ribs2 Great framework to build highly scalable, low latency service (developer friendly). It wou…

Very good work. How about a video/blog where you can describe use-cases where redis has been creatively used to solve a tough problem. With some redis design patterns included?

I see. I would suggest you explore the following: 1. CitusDB (an offshoot of postgres with high ingestion rate, cloudflare used it) 2. Druid.io (popular in ad-tech) 3. Linkedin Pin…

I work in subsecond latency domain. Can you elaborate what do you want to achieve in the sub-second: Does the ingestion have to be subsecond? or the entire cycle of ingestion and d…

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Aah finally a good clue about reading material. Thanks a ton.

It might seem standard among some circles. And i have learnt them on the floor. But could never find a book or blog which describes some more examples. I was curious if others had …

Real time bidding. It is used to trade ads with exchanges. When you dont have your own ads from your sales team.

Yes. It is intuitive to some. But I never learnt it from a text book. Thats why I was curious about such other tricks.

This is really neat. You need to take only 1/N of the locks. Maybe the N can be started small and changed gradually as the views increase.

Ad 1 has to be shown 30% of the traffic Ad 2 has to be shown 40% of the traffic Remaining has to be given to RTB generate a random number between 0:100 if the number is 0-30 the Ad…

For solving the problem of proportioned distribution of ads into sites at internet-scale, we had used a random number generator within a segmented number range. It was elegant and …

I find redis-cluster spec one of the simplest ways to explain clustering, HA, leader election. https://redis.io/topics/cluster-spec

I am a developer in the bay area, who has worked on distributed systems (ad-tech). Most of the skills have been gained through real-life experience. I want to use the christmas vac…