Software Engineering
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Criteo R&D Supporting The DevOps Community At DevCon 2025
Earlier this month, I had the chance to attend DevCon 2025, one of Romania’s leading technology conferences. Held on November 5–6 in Bucharest, the event gathered IT professionals, developers, and industry leaders for two packed days of sessions, demos, and discussions. For me, it was also a great opportunity to meet my teammates in person,…
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Our recap from SRECon 2025
From October 7–9, 2025, the Convention Centre Dublin hosted SREcon EMEA, the premier gathering for engineers dedicated to site reliability, distributed systems, and operational excellence. Organized by USENIX, this event brought together hundreds of SREs, platform engineers, and infrastructure leaders from across tech companies based in EMEA. The conference is known for its culture of…
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Insights from Kernel Recipes 2025
Supporting tech communities should be a cornerstone of the software industry. The digital products we use daily have been created by software engineers who are very passionate about what they build, but especially about how they build it. The Linux kernel is, without a doubt, one of those essential pieces of software that enable the…
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The Future is Now: Key Insights from the AI Engineer Paris Conference
When I walked into the conference, there was a mix of excitement and unease in the air. Everyone seemed to sense it: we weren’t just talking about “what’s coming someday”, we were already living through a shift. The main idea came up again and again, in different words and contexts: we’re moving from writing code…
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Building an Internal Developer Portal: Insights from the Journey So Far
At Criteo, the Platform department in R&D provides the set of common technical building blocks used to build all Criteo products and shared services. The main users are all the software engineering and analytics teams across Criteo. Over the past few years, the Platform teams have made significant strides in enhancing self-service capabilities to improve…
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Why And How We Organize Coding Dojos
If you are looking for a way to both have fun and improve your coding skills (or those of your team), I have some good news: we have open-sourced a repo that contains material to organize coding dojos! 🎉 👇 GitHub – criteo/coding-dojo: Some content to organize some coding dojos Some content to organize some…
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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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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…