Tag: 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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Inside OLX India: Strategies for Effective Monitoring & Observability
Inside OLX India: Strategies for Effective Monitoring & Observability – Observability and monitoring are crucial for maintaining a robust and efficient system. Monitoring provides real-time alerts and performance metrics, helping to identify and address issues before they escalate quickly. Observability goes deeper, offering insights into the internal workings and interactions within the system, making it…
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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.