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Kafka App? There’s a Skill for That
Our short summary of Etsy’s engineering write-up. The full story, with all the detail, is on their blog.
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Shoppers needed up‑to‑date recommendations, but data lagged behind their browsing activity.
Solution
Implemented a Kafka streaming pipeline that continuously updates feature vectors and embeddings, feeding them into the recommendation engine in near real‑time.
Want the architecture, code and numbers? They’re in the original post.
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