How Facebook Audience Insights Are Real-Time

Facebook introduced audience insights in May as a way for brands to learn more about the audiences they target with their ads on the social network in order to refine their strategies, but what technical challenges did it face, and how were they overcome? Software engineers Deniz Demir, Islam AbdelRahman, Liang He and Yingsheng Gao answered those questions in a post on Facebook’s engineering blog.

AudienceInsightsQueryEngine650Facebook introduced audience insights in May as a way for brands to learn more about the audiences they target with their ads on the social network in order to refine their strategies, but what technical challenges did it face, and how were they overcome? Software engineers Deniz Demir, Islam AbdelRahman, Liang He and Yingsheng Gao answered those questions in a post on Facebook’s engineering blog.

Please see the blog post for all of the details, but the basics follow:

Audience insights needs to process queries over tens of terabytes of data in a few hundred milliseconds.

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