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How Medium Powers Real-Time Recommendations at 1M OPS

Aug 11, 2026Cynthia Dunlop
How Medium Powers Real-Time Recommendations at 1M OPS
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Medium migrated its feature store from relational features to list features in ScyllaDB to handle 1M OPS for real-time recommendations. This involved redesigning the data model to use list features for storing time-series user activity, improving query performance and scalability for their recommendation system.

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