Engineering Practices and Performance Optimizations of Apache Druid for Real‑Time OLAP at Shopee
Shopee’s engineering team scaled a 100‑node Apache Druid cluster for real‑time OLAP by redesigning the Coordinator load‑balancing algorithm, adding incremental metadata pulls, introducing a segment‑merged result cache, and building exact‑count and flexible sliding‑window operators, while planning cloud‑native deployment.
