Authors : Marsan Ma, Nikhil Lopes, Raj Amrit, Hong Lu, Dipankar Biswas, Trent Kyono Leadership: Iris Wang, Madhu Kurup Recommendation and ranking systems power many of the most important experiences on large internet platforms. Yet the models that run in production are rarely the largest models we can train. They are usually compact, latency-sensitive supervised […]
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The Importance of Using a Composite Metric to Measure Performance
In the past, Indeed has used a variety of metrics to evaluate our client-side performance, but we’ve tended to focus on one at a time. Traditionally, we chose a single performance metric and used it as the measuring stick for whether we were improving or degrading the user experience. This made it simple to track […]
Indeed SRE: An Inside Look
Photo by Kevin Ku on Unsplash Indeed adds over 30 million jobs online every month, which helps connect 250 million job seekers to prospective employers. How do we keep our services available, fast, and scalable? That’s the ongoing challenge for our site reliability engineering (SRE) team. What is SRE? The idea behind SRE is simple: […]