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Written by Wenhao Su, Lida Li and Michael Ran Chen from Quora’s ML Platform team Introduction At Quora, we're constantly striving to enhance user experience by delivering relevant content efficiently. A key component in achieving this goal is our embedding search system, which powers content discovery…
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A journey of cost savings, tech debt reduction, and improved reliability Authors: Akshesh Doshi (अक्षेश), Nafiz Chowdhury from Quora’s Data Infrastructure team At Quora, we heavily rely on data to enhance user experiences and drive business growth. At the heart of our data-driven culture sits Apache S…
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Written by Eliza Pan and Gabriel Fernandes, from Quora’s Data Infrastructure team 1 Introduction: Quora State and Migration Motivation Redshift is an AWS-managed data warehouse system, it provides data storage and a SQL query engine. Trino (previously named PrestoSQL) is an open-source distributed que…
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Team: Vamsi Ponnekanti, Joungjin Lee, John Li, Mohammad Solaiman, Myungwoo Chun, and Hwanseung Yeo from core-infrastructure team. Jelle Zijlstra, Jian Gong, and Phillip Cole from other teams. Background In MySQL sharding at Quora we talked about our MySQL setup, and in Migration from HBase to MyRocks at…
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, worked at Facebook
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, VP of Engineering at Quora (2020-present)
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, Director of Engineering at Quora
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, Engineering manager at Quora (2015-present)
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, Engineer at Quora (2012-present)
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