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Highlights of RecSys 2022
As every year since 2014, Criteo went to RecSys 2022! We were happy and proud to be a gold sponsor of this conference, especially as it had a lively onsite part in the beautiful city of Seattle. Criteo and Recommendation Systems Many know Criteo as a world leader in AI-driven Performance Advertising (now subsumed in…
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Highlights of ICML 2022
Follow us to Baltimore…. The 39th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) took place in Baltimore, the USA, from 17th to 23rd July. ICML is one of the most prestigious conferences in machine learning, and covers a wide range of topics in machine learning from both practical and theoretical viewpoints. As one of the largest…
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Scheduling Data Pipelines at Criteo — Part 3
The Proven Model in Production Building a successful Platform is a quest of the good abstraction level. If you’ve missed it, check out the previous articles in this series: Scheduling Data Pipelines at Criteo — Part 2 This week we deep dive into the key ideas leveraged by BigDataFlow medium.com Scheduling Data Pipelines at Criteo — Part 1 Introducing…
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Scheduling Data Pipelines at Criteo — Part 2
The key ideas leveraged by BigDataFlow Bringing database query planner inside Workflow Management Systems Going back to the goal we introduced in Part 1 for our data pipeline platform: Users should only write the task How does the project infer statically ? the type of inputs and outputs the DAG of tasks The first idea leveraged…
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Using AI and NLP to Tackle Advertisement Spreading Disinformation on the Conflict in Ukraine
Disinformation* and glorification of violence in the context of the war in Ukraine At Criteo, we strive to provide rigorous Supply Partner Guidelines to create a safe and efficient advertising solution that benefits our marketers and media owners. Our guidelines state that ”sharing or propagating false information or fabricated information designed to deceptively imitate news media…
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Scheduling Data Pipelines at Criteo — Part 1
Introducing Criteo’s BigDataFlow project Data @ Criteo Data is a core asset for Criteo as it feeds our ML engine, it is the source of the reports that we provide to our clients and it is explored internally to gain insights.Every interaction of our clients with the Criteo platform is logged and all this data is…
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Highlights of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2022
An article by Daphnée Bestel, Harold Dost, Khalil Kooli, Thomas Langé & Thibaut Sarion The global cloud-native developer population has grown by 1 million in the last 12 months, according to the 2021 State of Cloud-Native Development Report developed for CNCF by SlashData. The estimated number of cloud-native developers is about 7.1 million worldwide. That represents…
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Highlights of Snowcamp 2022
Last month, 7 engineers from Criteo attended the SnowCamp in Grenoble, 2 of us coming all the way from Paris. SnowCamp is unique concept because it’s a 3-day technical conference (Workshops on Wednesday and Talks on Thursday and Friday) with a bonus day in the snowy mountains around Grenoble on Saturday. This 6th edition gathered…
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Highlights of Devoxx 2022
Devoxx is over and yet we already miss it! It was 3 intense days of meets, talks and fun! Devoxx is one of the biggest developer conferences in the Paris area with over 3000 attendees per day coming from Paris and all over the country. This conference is almost exclusively in French but some talks…
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Hackathon 2020: Dare to Inspire — Our first virtual Hackathon!
A report by Chai Ei Lai, Maya Noguchi, Olivier Koch & Sebastian Riera Innovation has always been an important part of Criteo. Every year, for 48h, we “run” a marathon exploring ideas, challenging assumptions and bringing new concepts to life. With the concept of Hackathons, we have made an Impact to our business in many…