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Technical articles and stack decisions from Criteo
The web graph as seen by Criteo
A few months ago, we constructed our own map of the web. We wanted to add new variables to our prediction engine. T his engine o ptimize...
Twitter openconf
by Justin Coffey ( @jqcoffey ) Last week, Mickaël Lacour and Justin Coffey went to Twitter's OSS #conf to talk about our work migrati...
Improving C# test coverage
As all big companies, Criteo developers have to provide unit tests to ensure a good code quality. One month before my annual perfor...
Criteo GeekTrip – February 9th – February 17th, 2014
The starting point: winning the Criteo Code of Duty 3 In late October 2013, Criteo organized Code of Duty, a big hackathon in its Par...
Criteo Talk at Paris Datageeks
Nicolas Le Roux gave a talk about Machine Learning at Criteo at the Paris Datageeks meetup. Machine learning at Criteo - Paris Datagee...
Criteo Talk at WSDM 2014
Last week, Olivier Chapelle gave an invited talk about CTR prediction at the WSDM conference. More technical details can be found in the c...
Prototype: GPU for real-time prediction server
A few months ago, we tried to move our real-time prediction component to dedicated GPU servers. The basic operations are simple enough: ...
Criteo Talk at Takeoffconf 2014
During the Takeoff 2014 conferencein Lille , I presented an introduction to managing datacenters at scale. This is heavily based on Crite...
Criteo invites the French tech community to hack digital advertising
Criteo organizes a hackathon for the developer community to showcase their talent and for a chance to win a US geektrip. Any skills for comp...
We don't like outages...
Using Hive for Mahout Experimentation
At Criteo, we do a lot of machine learning to predict quantities critical to our daily business. In this article, we will show you how we us...
Two Internet pioneers @Criteolabs this morning
This morning we hosted a conference @Criteolabs about the Genesis and Evolution of Ethernet and Internet. Bob Metcalfe and G...
Scaling the Criteo network infrastructure with Cisco Nexus
This is a quick post to let you know that we recently released a case study with Cisco. Criteo has been using Cisco gear since the early day...
Monitoring your web services latency on the load-balancer side
As a technology company we care a lot about Quality of Service and Experience: - No impact on our publishers by serving ads too slowly ...
A Crash Course on Data Centers
Data centers are fascinating. High-tech strongholds designed to survive pretty much any natural or man-made disaster. Dull and unremarkable ...
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