Scaling for 2 Billion Events Per Day with Principal Software Engineer at Red Ventures


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Jun 25 2024 36 mins   6
With a growing library of media properties including CNET, Lonely Planet, and Bankrate, Red Ventures’ data platform has scaled from handling 16 million events per day to nearly 2 billion. To dive into the evolution of their architecture and understand how data effortlessly travels through their systems, our host David Joy sat down with Principal Software Engineer Majid Fatemian.

Join as we discuss:
  • Why Red Ventures migrated from SQL Server to Amazon Redshift
  • How the data landscape has changed over the last two decades
  • The challenges every leader should expect when running a data platform
  • Majid’s time at Ubisoft and his involvement in one of David’s favorite games, Far Cry 2