Content recommendation method and apparatus

A content recommendation method applied to a recommendation server, comprising:

• receiving recommendation request information sent from an information flow server, wherein the recommendation request information is configured for requesting to acquire a recommendation content item corresponding to a target user;
• acquiring a recommendation content sequence corresponding to the target user according to a preset recommendation algorithm, wherein the recommendation content sequence comprise a plurality of recommendation content items, and the plurality of recommendation content items are ranked in a descending order according to relevance to the target user;
• and
• sending a second number of recommendation content item(s) ranked top in the recommendation content sequence to the information flow server, and writing the recommendation content sequence into a recommendation cache corresponding to the target user.

An electronic device, comprising:

• a memory;
• and
• a processor coupled to the memory, the processor being configured to, based on instructions stored in the memory, implement a content recommendation method comprising:
• receiving, from a terminal device, content request information for requesting to acquire a recommendation content item corresponding to a target user;
• determining whether a recommendation server is faulty;
• acquiring a first recommendation content item according to a recommendation cache corresponding to the target user in response to the recommendation server being faulty, wherein a plurality of recommendation content items are stored in the recommendation cache corresponding to the target user, and the plurality of recommendation content items are written when the recommendation server is not faulty;
• and
• sending the first recommendation content item to the terminal device.