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Understanding Real-time Conversations on Facebook
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Summary
Janet Wiener talks about the Chorus of Facebook conversations – the aggregated, anonymized voice of the people – which leads to incredible insights. To do that, Facebook built a data pipeline that produces visual graphs within 10 seconds of content production. Wiener describes how they extract the Chorus in real time.
Bio
Janet Wiener is a software engineer at Facebook. She has worked on a variety of projects at Facebook, including Scuba, a fast in-memory data store; Chorus, a real-time data pipeline for reporting what people are saying in aggregate on Facebook; and Quick Promotion, a tool for running promotions on behalf of Facebook.
About the conference
Software is Changing the World. QCon empowers software development by facilitating the spread of knowledge and innovation in the developer community. A practitioner-driven conference, QCon is designed for technical team leads, architects, engineering directors, and project managers who influence innovation in their teams.
Apr 17, 2016