On a cold and rainy morning of April, our beloved CTO, Romain Niccoli, came to the R&D team and asked us if we were ready to prove our value to the rest of the world in a contest...
A few months ago, we constructed our own map of the web. We wanted to add new variables to our prediction engine. This engine optimizes, in real-time, many components of our banners: it selects the best campaign, calculates...
Last week, Mickaël Lacour and Justin Coffey went to Twitter’s OSS #conf to talk about our work migrating over 1PB of data from RCFile to Parquet. We import over 30B records per day into our Hadoop cluster and...
Talk given by Ana Din, Jean-Baptiste Note and Loïc Le Bel at the Hadoop Summit in Amsterdam (2014/04/03) Hadoop summit-ams-2014-04-03 from SDanzanvilliersCriteo Share on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on Linkedin
As all big companies, Criteo developers have to provide unit tests to ensure a good code quality. One month before my annual performance interview, and one week before my Christmas holidays, my manager pointed out to me that most...
The starting point: winning the Criteo Code of Duty 3 In late October 2013, Criteo organized Code of Duty, a big hackathon in its Paris office for the third edition, which 120+ coders attended. As the lucky mentors...
Nicolas Le Roux gave a talk about Machine Learning at Criteo at the Paris Datageeks meetup.\n\n \n Machine learning at Criteo – Paris Datageeks from Nicolas Le Roux Share on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on Linkedin
Last week, Olivier Chapelle gave an invited talk about CTR prediction at the WSDM conference. More technical details can be found in the corresponding paper.\n\n \n Response prediction for display advertising – WSDM 2014 from Olivier Chapelle Share on...
A few months ago, we tried to move our real-time prediction component to dedicated GPU servers. The basic operations are simple enough: hashes, scalar products, plus some specific operations for our prediction algorithm. Some of our coworkers were...
During the Takeoff 2014 conferencein Lille, I presented an introduction to managing datacenters at scale. This is heavily based on Criteo’s experience with infrastructure. It opens a discussion about open source distributed resource managers like Apache Mesos and Apache...
