There are some retailers with physical presence I truly enjoy shopping from. Perusing the aisles of Home Depot is always fun and a good way to start a DIY project you didn't know you needed to start. Playing with cooking gadgets and shiny pots & pans at Williams-Sonoma is a great way to quickly run out of counter-space. The workout clothes at Lululemon are buttery soft. And the truly helpful and knowledgeable people working at REI are always there to help fit a hiking backpack properly.

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I wrote a follow-up on Tubi's Ad Server build-out on our engineering blog.

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I wrote a post on Tubi's Engineering blog on how we build out our ad server.

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I wrote a guest post on Tubi's Engineering blog on using Spark Structured Streaming to power real-time data pipelines at Tubi.

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I attended RecSys'17 for the first time this year in Lake Como. I am not really an ML practitioner and RecSys is an academic conference, so I was largely out of my element. That being said, it was extremely beneficial to be exposed to so much innovation happening in the field of recommendations.…

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Back in the days of print & TV advertising, it was practically impossible to accurately measure the effectiveness of an advertising campaign. Today with digital ads we can accurately track how many people saw an ad, for how long, whether they clicked on it and if they ended up purchasing the advertised product. Given that advertisers can close the loop, it makes sense for advertising technology to try and systematically make better choices about what ads it displays to whom in as real-time as possible.…

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