Engineering at Quora
Quora's engineering space, publishing a handful of detailed posts a year on data infrastructure: optimising its MySQL databases, moving from HBase to MyRocks, running Trino at scale, revamping Spark, building embedding search and migrating from x86 to AWS Graviton. Infrequent, but each post is a solid case study in cost and performance work at a large consumer site.
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Quora's engineering space, publishing a handful of detailed posts a year on data infrastructure: optimising its MySQL databases, moving from HBase to MyRocks, running Trino at scale, revamping Spark, building embedding search and migrating from x86 to AWS Graviton. Infrequent, but each post is a solid case study in cost and performance work at a large consumer site.
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