How Xiaohongshu Cut Data Architecture Costs by Two‑Thirds with Incremental Computing
This article analyzes Xiaohongshu's data platform evolution—from a simple ClickHouse‑based analytics layer to a Lambda architecture and finally a lakehouse design—highlighting how adopting a new incremental computing model reduced architecture complexity, resource consumption, and development effort each to roughly one‑third while delivering sub‑second query performance on petabyte‑scale data.
