With more than 460 million ‘ Pinners ’ using its platform each month , Pinterest is powered by its data architecture , ML and experimentation platforms
PINTEREST
With more than 460 million ‘ Pinners ’ using its platform each month , Pinterest is powered by its data architecture , ML and experimentation platforms
Pinterest is the visual inspiration platform people around the world use to shop for products personalised to their taste , find ideas and crafts to do offline , and discover the most inspiring creators .
Beginning as a tool to help people collect the things they were passionate about online , today more than 460 million people flock to Pinterest ’ s platform every month to explore and experience billions of ideas .
Central to powering this platform is data engineering on a vast scale – as Dr . Dave Burgess , VP of Data Engineering at Pinterest , explains .
“ In Data Engineering we create and run reliable and efficient planet-scale data platforms and services to accelerate innovation at Pinterest and sustain our business ,” he says . “ We do everything from online data systems to logging data , big data and stream processing platforms , analytics and experimentation platforms , machine learning ( ML ) platforms , and the Pinterest Developer Platform for external developers to build applications using Pinterest APIs .”
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