Lessons from Building and Scaling Reddit's Ad Serving Platform with Go

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Post by ngaut » Mon, Sep 10, 2018, 11:05 AM UTC

Lessons from Building and Scaling Reddit's Ad Serving Platform with Go
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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Sep 10, 2018, 11:18 AM UTC

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Post by minxomat » Mon, Sep 10, 2018, 11:27 AM UTC

> 12M posts per month, 2B posts per month

Curious, which one is it? I suspect the former.

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Post by alkonaut » Mon, Sep 10, 2018, 11:29 AM UTC

minxomat wrote: post #3

> 12M posts per month, 2B posts per month Curious, which one is it? I suspect the former.

2B must be ”pageviews per month”?

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Post by freecodyx » Mon, Sep 10, 2018, 11:41 AM UTC

i will add to not use the default http.Client/Server,

poor performance, instead use fasthttp

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Post by ainar-g » Mon, Sep 10, 2018, 11:51 AM UTC

freecodyx wrote: post #5

i will add to not use the default http.Client/Server, poor performance, instead use fasthttp

IIRC, fasthttp only supports a subset of HTTP. This may or may not be a deal-breaker for some people.

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Post by somethingroma » Mon, Sep 10, 2018, 11:53 AM UTC

Cool. Maybe these guys should get in touch with the redesign guys and get them fired. Also fire any executive that thought it was a good idea.

Because all the hard work to serve ads more efficiently goes to waste when the site is a mess and unusable.

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Post by acln » Mon, Sep 10, 2018, 11:55 AM UTC

freecodyx wrote: post #5

i will add to not use the default http.Client/Server, poor performance, instead use fasthttp

I like my HTTP package to actually speak as good an approximation of HTTP as it can, so fasthttp wouldn't be my first option.

Furthermore, the HTTP stack doesn't show up on most web servers' profiles. net/http is better understood by the community, interoperates with libraries better (e.g. golang.org/x/oauth2), and is better supported.

Use net/http.

Re: Lessons from Building and Scaling Reddit's Ad Serving Platform with Go

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Post by pjc50 » Mon, Sep 10, 2018, 12:00 PM UTC

A means for rapidly selecting and loading an advert which will then be blocked by the users' browser.

(Although even without adblock, are there actually all that many overt ads on Reddit, other than the sidebar ad which nearly always is an ad for a different subreddit?)

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Post by rawoke083600 » Mon, Sep 10, 2018, 12:02 PM UTC

pjc50 wrote: post #9

A means for rapidly selecting and loading an advert which will then be blocked by the users' browser. (Although even without adblock, are there actually all that many overt ads on Reddit, other than the sidebar ad which nearly always is an ad for a different subreddit?)

"rapidly blocked" :P