One of the questions we hear a lot from engineers in our recruiting process is what kind of career path exists for technical specialists within Criteo. Their concern stems from the fact that they have already reached the...
The conference… seen from the peaks 😉(Photo taken during Unconference ski day) A tech conference in the Alps In case you missed it, the 2019 edition of the SnowCamp conference took place this month in Grenoble, in sync with the arrival of...
We were happy to talk at home for the Paris Kafka meet-up on January 15th. Every month, we gladly host Meetups within our offices in Paris, and this January, we started the year right by welcoming the Kafka community. Being one of the...
From the early days of Criteo, giving back has been part of us, of our identity and DNA. We have grown, and our responsibilities have grown as well. In 2017, we launched the “Women In Engineering” (WIE) group, whose objective...
The 3rd edition of Aujourd’hui Je code, organized by Criteo’s Women in Engineering group in partnership with Foundation “CGenial“, was held on 30 November 2018! Students from three different high schools joined our engineers to discover software engineering, Criteo, and...
There has been plenty of talk lately about threadpool starvation in .NET: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/vancem/2018/10/16/diagnosing-net-core-threadpool-starvation-with-perfview-why-my-service-is-not-saturating-all-cores-or-seems-to-stall https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/vsoservice/?p=17665 or even on our own blog: https://labs.criteo.com/2018/09/monitor-finalizers-contention-and-threads-in-your-application/ What is it about? This is one of the numerous ways asynchronous code can break if you wait synchronously...
Looking for an internship from early 2019 ? There is chances you’ll see us around. We’re launching our Campus Program, visiting several engineering schools and universities to spot the best talents in town. We offer more than 35...
This post of the series details more complicated CLR events related to finalizers and threading. Part 1: Replace .NET performance counters by CLR event tracing. Part 2: Grab ETW Session, Providers and Events. Introduction In the previous post,...
In Criteo, hypergrowth is something we have gotten used to. Our business has grown from a single data center in Paris back in 2005, to a globally distributed, multi data center infrastructure, with over 35 000 servers and what is one of the largest Hadoop clusters in Europe. This blogpost...
