How Pinterest Manages 20 Terabytes of Data a Day

Handling the huge data load is expensive but Pinterest puts the data to work, so it essentially pays for itself.

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It’s not enough to just be a social network anymore — just ask Myspace and Bebo. Now social networking startups need to be a data companies in addition to connecting people and being an advertising platform for brands. To that end, Pinterest has released some information about how it does its big data business.

A major part of Pinterest’s success both in scaling its network and maintaining stability is through the use of an open source project called Hadoop.

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