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What’s up guys?  You’re listening to g33ktalk.  Coming up, we’ve got a recording from the recent Meetup at Redis.  Aren Sandersen is going to talk to us about Redis at Pinterest.  And if you’re not there already, be sure to check out our website for more great start-up engineering content at g33ktalk.com.

Aren:  Hi everybody.  My name’s Aren Sandersen.  I’m the head of technical operations at Pinterest right down the street here actually, at 7^th and Brannan, just moved to the city not too long ago.  I give, some of you who might have seen this at Redis Conf.  I gave a similar overview of what we do with Redis at Pinterest at you know a fairly large scale.  Things to keep in mind that we learned sort of the hard way.  So as your sites grow, you don’t hit a lot of the same mistakes that we do.

All right, so a little bit about Pinterest, if you don’t know what it is.  It’s an online pin board to organize and share what inspires you.  So I’ll give you an example of, this is my Pinterest board.  I’ve got my Pinterceptors and projects I’ve done, watch collection.  Things I’m interested in and want to hang onto.  So here’s an example of one of my pins.  This is my air compressor powered Nerf gun that I built.  Nobody in the office will play Nerf with me anymore.  Can you guys see over here enough?  Okay, I don’t want to block it.  Yeah, needless to say, nobody wants to play Nerf gun with me anymore in the office.
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