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51 min read
AI•2026-05-12

An Engineer’s Guide to Better AI Skills: Implementing a Testing Process to Optimize Agent…

This article presents testing methods to measure and improve AI agent skill invocation reliability using Pinterest's internal agents and Claude Code.

engineering-culture
engineering
ai
agentic-coding
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11 min read
Machine Learning•2026-05-08

Enhancing Ad Relevance: Integrating Real-Time Context into Sequential Recommender Models

This paper presents a Contextual Sequential Two-Tower Model for Pinterest ads that integrates real-time context into sequential recommender systems.

engineering
pinterest
ads-retrieval
transformers
monetization
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31 min read
Machine Learning•2026-05-01

Optimizing ML Workload Network Efficiency (Part I): Feature Trimmer

Pinterest optimized ML serving network efficiency by implementing Feature Trimmer to reduce bandwidth bottleneck.

engineering
pinterest
machine-learning
infrastructure
efficiency
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21 min read
Machine Learning•2026-04-27

From Clicks to Conversions: Architecting Shopping Conversion Candidate Generation at Pinterest

Pinterest built an ML model optimizing shopping conversions by addressing sparse offsite conversion events.

recommendation-system
pinterest
monetization
machine-learning
engineering
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41 min read
Backend•2026-04-20

Smarter URL Normalization at Scale: How MIQPS Powers Content Deduplication at Pinterest

Pinterest's MIQPS algorithm automatically learns which URL parameters affect content identity, enabling efficient deduplication across millions of merchant URLs at scale.

pinner-experience
engineering
infrastructure
eng-culture
pinterest
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21 min read
DevOps•2026-04-15

Finding zombies in our systems: A real-world story of CPU bottlenecks

Pinterest engineers debugged why Ray-based ML training jobs were crashing with intermittent network connectivity issues on Kubernetes clusters backed by AWS EC2.

performance
kubernetes
pinterest
machine-learning
engineering
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61 min read
Machine Learning•2026-04-13

Scaling Recommendation Systems with Request-Level Deduplication

Pinterest shares their technique of request-level deduplication to manage infrastructure costs when scaling recommendation systems with 100x increased model parameters.

pinterest
machine-learning
infrastructure
engineering
recommendation-system
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11 min read
Mobile•2026-04-08

Performance for Everyone

Pinterest's approach to automatically measuring user-perceived latency (Visually Complete) on Android surfaces by embedding measurement logic into base UI classes.

engineering
performance-metrics
pinterest
user-experience
performance
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01 min read
Architecture•2026-04-07

Evolution of Multi-Objective Optimization at Pinterest Home feed

This article discusses Pinterest's evolution of the multi-objective optimization layer in their home feed recommendation system.

results-diversification
engineering
slate-optimization
recommendation-system
pinterest
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141 min read
AI•2026-03-19

Building an MCP Ecosystem at Pinterest

Pinterest describes how they built a production MCP (Model Context Protocol) ecosystem to enable AI agents to safely automate engineering tasks.

engineering-culture
pinterest
infrastructure
ai
engineering
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61 min read
AI•2026-03-06

Unified Context-Intent Embeddings for Scalable Text-to-SQL

Pinterest evolved its Text-to-SQL system into a production Analytics Agent using unified context-intent embeddings and governance-aware ranking to serve 100,000+ tables and 2,500+ analysts.

agentic-bi
context-engineering
pinterest
engineering
text-to-sql
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71 min read
Machine Learning•2026-03-03

Unifying Ads Engagement Modeling Across Pinterest Surfaces

Pinterest unified three separate ads engagement models for Home Feed, Search, and Related Pins into one shared architecture.

monetization
model-unification
recommender-systems
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engineering
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181 min read
Machine Learning•2026-02-27

Bridging the Gap: Diagnosing Online–Offline Discrepancy in Pinterest’s L1 Conversion Models

Pinterest investigates the online–offline discrepancy in L1 CVR models in their ads funnel.

ads-ranking
machine-learning
pinterest
engineering
conversion-modeling
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101 min read
Architecture•2026-02-24

Piqama: Pinterest Quota Management Ecosystem

Pinterest's Piqama is a generic quota management ecosystem that handles the full lifecycle of resource quotas across Big Data Processing and Online Services.

data-governance
distributed-systems
engineering
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infrastructure
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281 min read
Data Engineering•2026-02-17

Drastically Reducing Out-of-Memory Errors in Apache Spark at Pinterest

This post describes Pinterest's Auto Memory Retries feature for Apache Spark, which automatically retries OOM-failed tasks on larger executors to reduce failures and resource waste.

engineering
data
pinterest
apache-spark
open-source
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141 min read
Machine Learning•2026-02-13

GPU-Serving Two-Tower Models for Lightweight Ads Engagement Prediction

Pinterest introduced a GPU-served two-tower model using MMOE-DCN architecture for lightweight ads engagement prediction.

engineering
pinterest
monetization
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41 min read
Data Engineering•2026-02-05

Next Generation DB Ingestion at Pinterest

Pinterest describes its next-generation database ingestion framework built on CDC, Kafka, Flink, Spark, and Iceberg to replace legacy batch-based pipelines.

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icebergs
change-data-capture
spark
engineering
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41 min read
Machine Learning•2026-02-02

Beyond Two Towers: Re-architecting the Serving Stack for Next-Gen Ads Lightweight Ranking Models…

Spotify's ads team describes how they re-architected their serving stack to replace the Two-Tower model with more expressive neural networks capable of deep feature interactions.

engineering
pinterest
monetization
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41 min read
Machine Learning•2026-01-28

Ads Candidate Generation using Behavioral Sequence Modeling

Pinterest's Ads team developed transformer-based behavioral sequence models to improve ad candidate generation using users' offsite activity history.

ads-retrieval
engineering
deep-learning
transformers
pinterest
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61 min read
Machine Learning•2026-01-13

PinLanding: Turn Billions of Products into Instant Shopping Collections with Multimodal AI

Pinterest introduces PinLanding, a production pipeline that uses multimodal AI to automatically generate shopping collections from billions of catalog items.

engineering
ai
pinterest
large-language-models
shopping