Lyft

“These on-demand marketplaces, similarly like Lyft, it's challenging where you need to control the amount of people who can even see your promotional materials let alone who are acting on it.”

“Most of the world's ride-sharing companies around the world actually run Presto for their analytics because of that, so You know, that's Lyft here in the US that's GrabTaxi in Singapore, that's OlaCabs in India, that's Kareem in the Middle East.”

“And so a way to create a feature store whereby we can consolidate the training data with the prediction serving time data is a common sort of holy grail for all the companies I've been at in their pursuit.”

“I would say at all three places, there was a desire for a centralized stack so that iterative improvements sort of helped all models.”

“From that day, which is probably mid 2018 till today, this product is the single highest CSAT scoring internal product, right?”

“In my years of data engineer at Lyft, I was unlucky to break down, well, actually blow up the entire data platform by making a three line SQL code hotfix that filtered a little bit more rights than I anticipated.”

“Druid is an example where Lyft recently, the ride-sharing company, migrated off of Druid and onto ClickHouse.”