Weekly Digest #119

Articles

The Secret Sauce of Tik-Tok’s Recommendations

1. They crafted a collisionless embedding table while further optimizing it by adding expirable embeddings and frequency filtering to reduce its memory consumption, making it efficient and suitable for deployment to users;
2. They provided a production-ready online training architecture with high fault-tolerance
3. They experimentally proved that system reliability could be traded-off for real-time learning

Devpod: Improving Developer Productivity at Uber with Remote Development

advantages

• performance improves productivity
• zero setup and maintenance
• secure

what’s next

• devpod-on-demand
• ephemeral devpod: short-lived devpod environments
• non-disruptive auto-upgrade and maintenance workloads
• seamless IDE experience
• centralized Build Farm for All Environments (CI/ Devpod/Local)
• team-specific devpod configuration
• seamless file transfer between laptops and devpods
• android emulator support for devpod