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How Changing a Few Lines of Query Reduced the Execution Time by 80%

How Taboola cut query time by 90% on a 45B-row Vertica job using smart pre-aggregation, ...

By Minka Bloch 6 Minutes read May 12 2025

Collaborative Trial: On Optimizing Recommendation Testing

Taboola is responsible for billions of daily recommendations, and we are doing everything we can ...

By Maoz Cohen 6 Minutes read Jan 14 2025

How Taboola Handles Deep Learning Training-Serving Features Discrepancies

Introduction In machine learning, one critical challenge is ensuring that the features used during model ...

By Itai Barel 7 Minutes read Jan 14 2025

Optimizing CTR Prediction through Clustering-Based Feature Engineering

With more than 500,000 recommendations per second, Taboola is the world’s leading native advertising platform ...

By Ofri Tirosh 8 Minutes read May 21 2024

Real-time Language Sync: Web App to Browser Extension

In previous articles, I went into an efficient implementation of internationalization using react-i18next for browser ...

By Eduardo Aparicio Cardenes 6 Minutes read Feb 20 2024

Breaking the Scale Barrier – Smarter Test Selection

A build process is a critical procedure triggered by new code changes (Git push). Its ...

By Shirel Hadad 4 Minutes read Aug 07 2023

GPU Integration Propels Data Center Efficiency and Cost Savings for Taboola

A year ago, we at Taboola kicked off a POC to migrate our Spark workload ...

By Eyal Hirsch 10 Minutes read Jun 19 2023

How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Kubernetes Release Cycle

Our Story and Humble Beginnings Taboola, a company that has more than 500 million daily ...

By Shahaf Benita 7 Minutes read Apr 10 2023

Insights From My First Year as Integration & Support Team Lead at Taboola

I never saw myself as the managerial type. Probably due to the manager typecast I ...

By Or Prat 4 Minutes read Mar 09 2023

Taboola’s shared GPU experience

What happens when you set a goal to increase Taboola’s critical data processing path capacity, ...

By Gilad Zamoscinski 7 Minutes read Feb 06 2023

Chasing Ghosts

Bugs can be annoying most of the time, but if you’re lucky enough (or unlucky, ...

By Tom Sisso 14 Minutes read Sep 26 2022

Detecting ANRs In Your Application

If there was a way to make any of my applications ANR proof, I would ...

By Tomer Ben Rachel 11 Minutes read Jun 13 2022