Migration to Google Cloud Platform — New Geostore

Yik Yak’s primary use case is to quickly return the most recent N messages posted, relative to a user’s current location, as bounded by either a circle of arbitrary radius or an arbitrary polygon. In this post we discuss how we built a geostore…

Yik Yak Feed System Architecture (Golang)

Background

At its core, Yik Yak is a service where users can create posts at their location and ask “What are people saying near me”? It’s the responsibility of the Feed Service to answer that question and return a set of content…