--- title: Best Quastor Daily posts — August 2023 | daily.dev description: The most upvoted Quastor Daily posts from August 2023, curated by the daily.dev community. canonical: https://daily.dev/sources/quastor/best-of/2023/08 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:url: https://daily.dev/sources/quastor/best-of/2023/08 og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Best Quastor Daily posts — August 2023 | daily.dev og:description: The most upvoted Quastor Daily posts from August 2023, curated by the daily.dev community. og:image: https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--VAY5ToZt--/f_auto/v1724209435/public/daily.dev%20-%20open%20graph --- # Best of Quastor Daily — August 2023 1. 1 [](https://daily.dev/posts/how-quora-scaled-mysql-to-100k-queries-per-second-pgq3glkbj "How Quora scaled MySQL to 100k+ Queries Per Second") Article Quastor Daily · 3y How Quora scaled MySQL to 100k+ Queries Per Second 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. 47 2. 2 [](https://daily.dev/posts/the-engineering-behind-instagram-s-recommendation-algorithm-wzg2cmecq "The Engineering behind Instagram's Recommendation Algorithm") Article Quastor Daily · 3y The Engineering behind Instagram's Recommendation Algorithm The Engineering behind Instagram’s Recommendation Algorithm Plus, 5 properties of healthy software projects. We’ll go through each of the layers in the system and talk about how they work. Instagram has over 500 million daily active users, so this means billions of recommendations have to be generated every day. 36 1 [See all Quastor Daily archives](/sources/quastor/best-of) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"CollectionPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/sources/quastor/best-of/2023/08#page","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/quastor/best-of/2023/08","name":"Best Quastor Daily Posts — August 2023","description":"The most upvoted Quastor Daily posts from August 2023, curated by the daily.dev community.","isPartOf":{"@type":"WebSite","url":"https://daily.dev"}},{"@type":"ItemList","@id":"https://daily.dev/sources/quastor/best-of/2023/08#items","numberOfItems":2,"itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"url":"https://daily.dev/posts/how-quora-scaled-mysql-to-100k-queries-per-second-pgq3glkbj","name":"How Quora scaled MySQL to 100k+ Queries Per Second"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"url":"https://daily.dev/posts/the-engineering-behind-instagram-s-recommendation-algorithm-wzg2cmecq","name":"The Engineering behind Instagram's Recommendation Algorithm"}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Sources","item":"https://daily.dev/sources"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Quastor Daily","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/quastor"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":4,"name":"Best of","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/quastor/best-of"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":5,"name":"August 2023"}]}]} ```