The Evolution of Reddit.com's Architecture

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Read the transcript of the presentation on InfoQ: bit.ly/2ChUYGm
Neil Williams discusses the history of the systems that power reddit.com, looking at things that worked, things that didn't, and where they're going next.
This presentation was recorded at QCon San Francisco 2017.

[@ilyanaoumov5425]

What I like about this talk is that it is honest. You can tell this guy wasn't sitting in an ivory tower telling the peons how to fix the problems, he actually lived it.

[@juanok2775]

thats what I do, I tell them peasants what to fix...

[@karanmittal1774]

@@juanok2775 nice

[@MMetalRain]

Number of times "thing" is mentioned during this talk is amazing.

[@BrunoCoelho]

He has the "Daily Dose of Internet" voice! That's pretty cool. Always love to hear from people who actually got their hands dirty and solved problems.

[@MoBeigi]

Great talk. Although I think 'thing' has be one of the worst named components of all time.

[@imaginarynoise3218]

Pfft. Just means they've moved the schema definition into the content of the table. That's exactly what they are: Things. It's just a different data architecture.

[@kimchi_taco]

even though I'm working on totally different area, now I feel hand-on experiences on server side work.

[@rakeshbalan9556]

Neil Williams is a calm speaker.

[@obiwan_smirnobi]

Great talk, thank you!

[@ragingpahadi]

Awesome video !

[@varunh93]

This is gold!

[@mulllhausen]

really inspiring!

[@SiddharthKulkarniN]

Good talk. The audio could be louder.

[@8Trails50]

So.. what exactly are they storing in Cassandra? Just whatever they cache?

[@ahmadtibi7744]

i'm 100% sure they store votes in cassandra

[@johnnm3207]

Comments and Votes

[@zacklight]

Amazing talk!

[@smonkey001]

Waited for years! Haha

[@kaushikvelidandla7010]

CDN to make decisions ? Sounds a lot like an API gateway. What content is the CDN delivering ?

[@yashthatte6137]

THINGS!

[@liuauto]

22:01 comment trees

[@user-ud8hw4gp6t]

but why start a single pod for every single vote via messeage broker?

[@bharat_arora]

Reddit is all about cult :)

[@rainsynth]

"front page of the internet" HA HA HA HA HA HA

[@iamworstgamer]

front end application in node? Say its served by node. its not node. I was not expecting it from reddit. People like you made our life miserable by seeing front end node.js developer job posts. Which does not make sense .

[@mc3newsmcocconcierge504]

Server node my dude