Category: Backend
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Logging at OLX with ClickHouse & Grafana
At OLX India, our services generate huge volumes of logs that are essential for developers, particularly when debugging or addressing incidents. Historically, we’ve utilized a mix of both open-source and licensed tools, including ELK, NewRelic, and CloudWatch, to manage and analyze these logs. However, over time, we encountered several challenges with these tools that hindered…
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Free Text Search At OLX
Explore the inner workings of our OLX India search system, delving into the technologies and concepts that power the OLX search engine. We’ll take a closer look at how our search handles the terms you enter into our search box as free-text queries.
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Building a Highly Scalable Media Server
Here are some insights into how we built a highly scalable media server from scratch in just one month. Which processes over 650M requests daily, with peaks reaching more than 15,000 image fetch requests per second, featuring real-time image processing like watermarking and resizing. It also efficiently serves document and audio media files.