Rocket Fuel provides behavioral targeting at scale by analyzing user online activities and interests to deliver relevant ads. Their platform processes billions of daily user impressions across many websites and devices using predictive models trained on large amounts of user data stored in Hadoop and HBase clusters. Key challenges include ensuring user profile freshness at scale, addressing data storage and processing bottlenecks, and building robust systems to handle failures.
When an advertiser works with Rocket Fuel, it immediately has access to 145 RTB advertising supply partners, 21M sites, 20B ad serving opportunities, 3B users on 92000 devices.
Real Time Auction
Selecting the right ad for each auction
Automatically learning from every response & getting better
Nobody else is doing this as fast, precisely, consistently for our customers
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Mention that it runs round the clock, handles upwards of 100 TB per day, stages vary in frequency, dependencies vary in frequency, need to play catch up, bugs