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# Unicorn: A System for Searching the Social Graph

* System
  * Change the storage
  * Change the workload 
  * What would it look like? 
* Recommendation 
  * Going across the logical structure (logical entities are divided) 
  * Too much data movement, and the aggregator will burn out 
  * Filtering based system --> recommendation serving system 
* Query workload 
  * Queries? 
* Matters for designing a system to serve this type of queries