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Pinterest

Pinterest is a discovery engine. It saves the data about a user’s interest and recommends posts according to it. For example, if a person wants to know how they want to style for an event, Pinterest helps them see what items they should buy that resonate with their personality.

Requirements

The requirements for the Pinterest logging system are:

• Availability— The infrastructure should be always up and running allowed.

• Scalability— To maximize efficiency, we want the best utilization of our computation resources. The system should keep working even if the traffic goes up ten times.

• Low latency — We want to add the logs generated due to an event within a threshold of a few seconds.

• Minimum human intervention — The system should be up and running with minimal human help.

• Robust system —The ...