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Vinted

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Orchestrating Success (opens on the source site)

TL;DR: How Vinted standardizes large-scale decentralized data pipelines. When we started migrating Vinted’s data infrastructure to the cloud, we set out to create a decentralized way of working. The idea was simple: teams know their data best, so they should be fully empowered to build, own, and operate their pipelines without a central platform team getting in the way. In that early phase, this worked reasonably well. Teams were moving fast, experimenting, and shipping value. They orchestrated their pipelines independently, inside their own domain. But as the platform grew, reality caught up…

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Dense Retrieval (opens on the source site)

TL;DR: integrating embedding-based retrieval into the e-commerce search application is a significant undertaking. Introduction The low-recall aspect of the keyword-based search is challenging when dealing with the content which is both very visual and multilingual. Returning “no results” even when there are relevant items is a missed business opportunity. To address the challenge, the initial experimentation with the dense embeddings-based retrieval can be tracked back to internal hackathons as early as 2022. To prove the business value and to maximise learning, we implemented filling of…

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