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Counting is Hard: Probabilistic Algorithms for View Counting at Reddit
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Summary
Krishnan Chandra explains the challenges of building a view counting system at scale, and how Reddit used probabilistic counting algorithms to make scaling easier.
Bio
Krishnan Chandra is a data engineer at Reddit, and has been working in data engineering for 4 years. Before joining Reddit, Krishnan worked on backend engineering at Optimizely and LinkedIn. He holds bachelor's degrees in computer science and math from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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May 15, 2018