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Why Pinterest Bet on Sharded MySQL Over NoSQL
Pinterest hit early scaling walls, tried NoSQL alternatives, then built ID-encoded sharded MySQL instead — and it outlasted the exotic options.
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The Feature Infrastructure Behind Pinterest's Home Feed Ranking
How Pinterest built shared machine learning feature infrastructure to rank home feed content consistently across training and real-time serving.
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Moving Pinterest's Fleet to Kubernetes
How Pinterest migrated thousands of services onto Kubernetes and built internal platform abstractions so product teams didn't need to become infrastructure experts.
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The HBase Era: When Pinterest Served Boards and Pins from Wide-Column Storage
A look back at the years Pinterest ran core data on HBase, why the wide-column model fit some of its access patterns, and where the friction showed up.
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Teaching Pinterest to See What's Inside a Pin
How Pinterest built visual search and object detection to let people discover products and ideas by tapping on specific items inside an image.
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Pixie: Real-Time Recommendations from an In-Memory Graph Walk
Pinterest's Pixie system serves billions of recommendations in real time by running random walks over an enormous pin-and-board graph held in memory.
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