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Authors: David Vengerov , Vinesh Gudla , Tejaswi Tenneti , Haixun Wang , Kourosh Hakhamaneshi At Instacart, we strive to provide our customers with the most personalized experience possible by combining multiple considerations they may...

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Author: Sylvia Lin At Instacart, we have a number of data pipelines with low-latency needs that handle over two trillion events a year. Those events help our engineering and product teams to make better decisions...

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How Instacart uses distributed Machine Learning to efficiently train thousands of models in production Author: Han Li At Instacart, we take pride in offering a diverse range of machine learning (ML) products that empower every...

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Authors: Mostafa Abdelraouf, Zain Kabani, Andrew Tanner In this post, we’ll be talking about PgCat , an open-source Postgresql Proxy that we have been using in production and contributing to. It provides connection pooling, load-balancing,...

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Our Data Science team at Instacart is responsible for all data analytics, insights and experimentation at the company. The team partners with our Product and Engineering teams on all stages of the product life cycle,...

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Authors: James Cha, Vickie Li, Shashank Mirji, and Frank Filho Let’s face it, there is no such thing as 100% bug-free code. And there is particularly no such thing as 100% security. That’s why a...

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A talk by Prof. Hongning Wang as part of Instacart’s Distinguished Speaker Series Co-authored by Haixun Wang and Jagannath Putrevu Recommendation systems are at the heart of Instacart: we want to surface the most appropriate...

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Authors: Andrew Tanner, Manas Paldhe, Stefan Wild, Tristan Fletcher Instacart is the leading online grocery company in North America. Users can shop from more than 75,000 stores with more than 500 million products on shelves....

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Authors: Blake Hoge, Sr Governance, Risk, and Compliance Engineer, and James Cha, Sr Security Engineer Building trust with our retailer partners is one of Instacart’s highest priorities. Instacart CEO Fidji Simo sets the tone at...