Introduction In this article, I will describe how Yelp predicts the waiting time for restaurants around the world. In this setting, latency of the system is paramount: when users want to know the current waiting time, they expect an immediate answer. However, they don't particularly care for the system to...
Introduction The harsh reality of new graduates joining a Machine learning team is that the "model development" part of the job dwarfs in comparison to everything else the team needs to support. The priority of the team is often: improving models' up-time, optimizing the data pipeline, adding new monitoring dimensions...
Introduction In today's article, I am going to dive deep into the paper [1] published by TikTok engineers describing how TikTok real time recommendation system is built. The paper has many topics that are worth learning in more detail, but I am going to focus on: * How the design supports...
