How Not to Degrade an Ad-Serving Service When the World Goes Crazy
summary
Explains how an online ad-selection service works and which metrics to monitor, then describes tools and techniques to analyze service health, drill from general to specific metrics to find bottlenecks, and formulate hypotheses and experiments to measure business impact. Covers early-detection signs of service degradation and concrete mechanisms for graceful degradation and architectural optimizations applied to an ad-selection system.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction
- 3:58Architecture and load issues
- 10:43Ad selection optimization
- 17:11Degradation metrics and triggers
- 21:45Company disabling mechanisms
- 28:10Results and outcomes
- 30:20Q&A
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