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Importance of Graceful Shutdown in Kubernetes
Have you ever deployed a new version of your app in Kubernetes and noticed errors briefly spiking during rollout? Many teams do not even realize this is happening, especially if they are not closely monitoring their error rates during deployments. There is a common misconception in the Kubernetes world that bothers me. The official Kubernetes…
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From Socca to Software: RivieraDev 2025 in Review
A sun-soaked celebration of tech, talent, and taste in Sophia Antipolis Set against the sun-drenched backdrop of Sophia Antipolis, RivieraDev 2025 once again proved why it’s one of the most beloved developer conferences in the region. Held in July at the SKEMA Business School, the event brought together around 700 attendees for three days of…
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Inside Devoxx France 2025: Engineering at Scale with Criteo
A look at our talks on Kubernetes, Aerospike, CI/CD, and frontend reactivity. One more year, we participated in a new Devoxx France edition in Paris last April. This conference is an important milestone every year, and we are always excited to support the tech community in Paris and across France. This year, as proud Gold…
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Pareto-Optimality, Smoothness, and Stochasticity in Learning-Augmented One-Max-Search
A rule for choosing when to sell/buy an asset when facing a sequence of prices This Research Card explains a rule for choosing when to sell/buy an asset when facing a sequence of prices. The key feature is that the algorithm has access to “predictions” on the optimal price. The objectives are to take “safe” decisions,…
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Our Experience at DevTalks Bucharest 2025
A Vibrant Hub of Connection and Community Building Authors: Alex Morus, Alexandru Tudor, Andreea Dragomirescu, Andrei-Cornel Porumb, Catalin Stan, Cornel-Dumitru Petrescu, George Patrascu, Nicu Murgu, Sergiu Petrescu & William Sarivan DevTalks Bucharest 2025, held at Romexpo’s pavilion at the beginning of this month, proved to be one of Romania’s most significant tech events. With eight…
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Improving Consistency Models with Generator-Augmented Flows
Delivering more personalized ads in real-time — boosting engagement and cutting infrastructure costs. This Research Card presents Generator-Augmented Flows (GC), a technique improving consistency models, which are state-of-the-art models for fast image and video generation. For Criteo, this could mean delivering more personalized ads in real time — boosting engagement and cutting infrastructure costs. Title: Improving Consistency Models with…
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Our Experience at ALT 2025
A Journey into Algorithmic Learning Theory Authors: Marc Abeille, Julien Zhou & Corentin Pla. The Algorithmic Learning Theory (ALT) 2025 conference, held in Milan at the end of February, was a significant event in the field of machine learning and theoretical computer science. This one-track conference brought together hundred researchers and practitioners to discuss the latest…
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KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 Recap: Lessons From the Field
A look back at the talks, trends, and tech that defined this year’s CNCF anniversary summit — plus what we’re bringing back to Criteo. Authors: Hamza Boudouche, Basha MOUGAMADOU, Jean-Francois Weber-Marx & Benjamin Arezki KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 took place from April 1–4 at the ExCeL London convention center and brought together over 12,000 attendees from across…
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Criteo R&D Hits the Stage at Voxxed Days Bucharest 2025
What we learned, shared, and loved at this year’s conference. Authors: Benjamin Degerbaix Diana Carmen Cibu Alex Morus Alexandru Tudor Andreea Dragomirescu Catalin Stan George Patrascu Mihai Iacob Nicu Murgu Ovidiu Badea Rareș Nicolaide Sergiu Petrescu Voxxed Days Bucharest 2025 brought together an exceptional mix of industry professionals, passionate developers, and thought leaders in a…
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Bringing NeRFs to the Latent Space: Inverse Graphics Autoencoder
A novel IG-AE that creates a 3D-aware latent space compatible with Neural Radiance Fields This Research Card introduces a novel Inverse Graphics Autoencoder (IG-AE) that creates a 3D-aware latent space compatible with Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs), enabling efficient 3D object reconstruction from 2D images and facilitating high-quality 3D ads. Title: Bringing NeRFs to the Latent Space:…