Geosharded Recommendations Part 1: Sharding Approach

1 · Tinder · May 14, 2019, 8:33 p.m.
Authors: Frank Ren|Director, Backend Engineering, Xiaohu Li|Manager, Backend Engineering, Devin Thomson| Lead, Backend Engineer, Daniel Geng|Backend EngineerSpecial thanks to: Timothy Der |Senior Site Reliability Engineer, for operational and deployment supportIntroductionIn the earliest stages of Tinder’s explosive growth, the engineering team identified that search would be a strong component for supporting real-time recommendations. Since then, it has been an important part of the Tinder reco...