Neil Menne on WTF: The Who to Follow Service at Twitter
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Link: https://stanford.edu/~rezab/papers/wtf_overview.pdf
Description: This paper offers a pragmatic but deep exploration of the user recommendation service and its architectural trade-offs. It not only covers how they made the initial recommendation algorithm work but also how they were able to adapt the graph algorithms to a production setting.
Bio: Neil is some kind of engineer at Bleacher Report where he works on services that were long forgotten, lightweight formal methods, and systems design.