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Adopting PgCat: A Nextgen Postgres Proxy

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,...

Mar 13, 2023

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Getting to Know the Data Scientists at Instacart

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,...

Dec 21, 2022

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Personalizing Recommendations for a Learning User

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...

Dec 5, 2022

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From Postgres to Amazon DynamoDB 

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....

Nov 21, 2022

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How Instacart Uses Embeddings to Improve Search Relevance

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How Instacart Uses Embeddings to Improve Search Relevance

Authors: Xiao Xiao , Taesik Na , Tejaswi Tenneti , Guanghua Shu As a fast-growing e-commerce platform and the leading grocery technology company, Instacart has an ever-expanding catalog of over 1 billion products from 900+...

Sep 15, 2022

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Lessons Learned: The Journey to Real-Time Machine Learning at Instacart

Authors: Guanghua Shu and Sahil Khanna Instacart incorporates machine learning extensively to improve the quality of experience for all actors in our “four-sided marketplace” — customers who place orders on Instacart apps to get deliveries...

Sep 7, 2022

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