By Julian de Ruiter, Machine Learning Engineer In this blog post, learn how we designed and built a machine learning (ML) platform on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to empower Adevinta’s data scientists to quickly and independently develop end-to-end data science solutions. …

Benjamin Riou, SRE In this article, I share best practices in how to fully capitalise on your migration efforts. I take you through the steps of our Redis cluster update, explain the challenges I faced and highlight potential pitfalls. After all, operating safely comes with experience. What is Redis and how do we use it? Our service is in…

José Antonio Díaz, Backend engineer Machine learning (ML) is a technology that has been on the rise for a while. There are many production services and solutions based on ML and many top dogs in the IT world have it in their toolkit. In Adevinta, we have built a lot…

From Jeremy Chamoux, Jordi Mas, Engineering Managers, Victor Codina, Data Scientist and Sacha Verrier, Data Engineer Introduction Adevinta started the journey of Machine Learning (ML) many years ago, when it was still part of Schibsted. The ML initiatives were taken both in our marketplaces and within the Global Teams. …

By Benjamin Riou, DevOps engineer Introduction In this post, you’ll learn why we decided to deprecate our legacy configuration management system, AWS CloudFormation, towards another one, Terraform. We also share the process followed to ensure the switch went smoothly.

By Marco Lijoi, Software Architect If you want to know more about Test Driven Development (TDD) you can search the web and you’ll find mostly technical descriptions about this topic. But in this post, you’ll read about how to implement it into your daily work, the impact it has on…

Jordi Mas, Engineering Manager Over the last six months, the Personalisation team tried out a new team model in an effort to become more efficient. …

By Sandra Garcia, Data Scientist Innovation is key for building and evolving great user products as well as growing the business. Business innovation has shown to improve team productivity, reduce costs, keep you ahead of competition and most importantly, keep your employees engaged [reference]. At Adevinta, this is something we…

By Elena Moreno, Data engineer, Jose San Pedro and Jordi Esteve, Data scientists In this blog post, you’ll read about online experimentation, why it’s key to measure the impact of recommender models on our marketplaces and you’ll know more about the different types of experiments we lead. We’ll also deep…