Tech & Innovation

Tech & Innovation

By Haixun Wang and Jagannath Putrevu Machine Learning (ML) is one of the most impactful technology levers we have at Instacart to make our services better and help our customers, shoppers, retailers, and brand partners....

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Authors: Brad Nicholson, Andrew Tanner, Marco Montagna Instacart runs one of the largest PostgreSQL fleets on top of AWS RDS, and part of managing a fleet like this is to keep it up to date....

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This is Part 2 of a three-part blog post series in which we outline how we addressed inventory challenges through product, machine learning, and engineering innovations. See Part 1 here . Introduction At Instacart, we...

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This is the part-1 of a three-part blog post series in which we outline how we addressed inventory challenges through product, machine learning, and engineering innovations. A few years ago, we introduced the problem of...

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Author: Jason Kim In today’s highly competitive digital marketplace, understanding the true value of the advertising effort is no longer a luxury but a necessity. While there are many methodologies used to evaluate the effectiveness...

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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,...