Accurate, Validated, and Real Time: Diving into Reddit’s Druid-powered Ad Platform with Lakshmi Ramasubramanian

How do ads work on the “front page of the internet?” On today’s episode, staff software engineer at Reddit Lakshmi Ramasubramanian discusses Reddit’s ad platform, including how it handles ad pacing, real-time data, and more. We’ll dive into the challenges they needed to solve and why Apache Druid was the right database for the job.