Video: What 0-50 million users in 7 days can teach us about big data

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This video accompanies our recent blog post on the topic of the viral How-Old.net app and our learnings from that.

Watch Joseph Sirosh present a behind-the-scenes peek into the creation of the viral How-Old.net phenomenon at Strata + Hadoop NYC 2015. Joseph talks about how this app reached 50 million users in record time, the unexpected big data challenges along the way, and some surprising findings about people and systems.

The video is just under 11 minutes long.

ML Blog Team