Quora is a social media site where you can post questions for the community to respond to. They have over 300 million monthly active users with tens of thousands of questions posted per day. Quora scaled this with improving their caching strategy (changing the structure to minimize cache misses) and also by optimizing inefficient read queries.

13m read timeFrom blog.quastor.org
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Read VolumeReducing Disk Space used by DatabaseOptimizing Writes

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