The Question
ML Design
Large-Scale Ad Ranking System
Design an end-to-end advertising ranking and auction system capable of handling 100k QPS and 10M+ candidates. The system must optimize for eCPM while maintaining sub-100ms latency, specifically addressing the challenges of feature sparsity, multi-stage filtering, and the feedback loop between impressions and conversions.
Two-Tower
DCN-V2
Faiss
Kafka
Flink
Spark
Redis
Isotonic Regression
Platt Scaling
PyTorch
ANN
GSP Auction
March 18, 2026