Shankara Narayana

A twitter user recommendation system based on historical twitter data. Uses hashtag and keyword similarity to determine recommendations.

Project Details

• Implemented Extract, Transform and Load (ETL) on a large data set (~ 1 TB) with budget constraints and loaded the data into MySQL.
• Designed a functional schema for a specific problem using MySQL databases.
• Designed, developed, orchestrated, tested and optimized a fully functional web service using managed services to handle different requirements.
• Evaluated and compared cloud managed services and cloud-hosted solutions.
• Designed an optimized database schema for a specific problem and optimized MySQL databases to increase throughput when responding to a large scale of requests.
• Evaluated the importance of the storage hierarchy and its impact on performance.
• Explored various methods, tools, configurations, and optimizations to improve the performance of a web service deployed on cloud managed services.
• Developed fault-tolerant web-servers to respond to an intensive live load over a long period of time (~ 2hrs).