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John Rak
John Rak is a software engineer working on the detection serving and signals team at Abnormal Security. Prior to joining Abnormal Security, he spent two years working on streaming data pipelines for email threat detection at Agari. He currently focuses on building systems for Abnormal’s real-time ML pipelines as well as tooling to improve daily workflows of ML engineers and increase ML engineering effectiveness.
As we’ve scaled our customer base, the size of our datasets has also grown. With our rapid expansion, we were on track to hit the data storage limit of our Redis server in two months, so we needed to figure out a way to scale beyond this—and fast!