Scaling Pinterest • Marty Weiner • GOTO 2014

This presentation was recorded at GOTO Aarhus 2014
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Marty Weiner - Cloud Ninja @ Pinterest
ABSTRACT
It's been an amazing ride building Pinterest from the early beginnings to today. We've watched it grow from a handful of engineers to 150+ and from hundreds of users to hundreds of millions, in just a few years.
We'd like to take you on a tour of our evolution, with specific focus on the early days. We'll discuss how the team and technology evolved, the challenges we faced, the (many!) mistakes we made, and the successes. We go into depth about how we made technology decisions and what we would have done differently, and try to leave you with tons of info you can use immediately to improve your infrastructure.
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[@reallywhoami]

Thank you for sharing this journey, learned technical parts and also learned about building company and culture.

[@jagadees_me]

Funny and interesting talk!

[@DeepestValue]

what a weird way of dismissing LB and replacing it with ZK! he didn't mention any engineering reason,,

[@cagriAs]

Actually in the Q&A part he gave a reason for selecting ZK by telling because of its configuration management. But he also says that he could've chosen cache to do the same thing.

[@user-fm4vm7fv4l]

as if he mentioned any engineering reasons -_-

[@gillfromamritsar]

Is sharding available in the free version of MYSQL ?

[@mageshv4848]

Nope, need to install sharding sphere

[@xinghaozhou5221]

Pinterest is an amazing company!

[@anilkurmi5966]

cool

[@CatchTheBus]

Not very useful tbh

[@ameyjain3462]

Poor quality talk, hardly anything to learn. They just did something because it is easier to hire or cheaper to maintain.