SESSION + Live Q&A
Realtime & Personalized Notifications @Twitter
Twitter Notifications Infrastructure enables hundreds of millions of users to stay informed about what’s going on in their Twitter world. Our systems process large volumes of data (aka the Twitter firehose) and deliver realtime and personalized notifications to all kinds of users, ranging from Katy Perry with ~95M followers to brand new users trying out our product for the very first time. We will give an overview of unique challenges in building our notifications infrastructure, present how we solved our challenges, and share key lessons learned along the way.
Speaker
Gary Lam
Tech Lead Notifications, Staff Software Engineer @ Twitter
Gary Lam is the technical lead of the Notifications timeline team at Twitter. He and his team are responsible for Twitter's notifications platform and notifications timeline. Prior to working on Notifications he was the technical lead for Twitter's Machine Learning Platform and helped build out...
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Speaker
Saurabh Pathak
Leads Notifications Team @Twitter
Saurabh Pathak is an Engineering Manager at Twitter where he leads the Notifications timeline team which is a product & platform team rolled into one. Prior to joining Twitter, Saurabh was an engineer at Netflix where he architected & built their social infrastructure from scratch. He also worked...
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Location
Fleming, 3rd flr.
Track
Modern Distributed Architectures
Topics
ObservabilityScalabilityTwitterSilicon ValleyShare
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