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Recommendation Systems
Retrieval, ranking, embeddings, candidate generation — how the feeds you love are built.
Roadmap
stage 1
Foundations
stage 2
Core patterns
stage 3
Advanced
stage 4
In production
Articles
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Recommendation Systems From Scratch
Design a recommender from first signals, build a concrete worked example, then dissect TikTok's Monolith — retrieval vs ranking, cold start, and the tradeoffs every real system makes.
- intermediate 6m
Designing a recommendation system from scratch
Retrieval vs ranking, candidate generation, freshness vs relevance — the tradeoffs every real recommender lives by.