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Multimodal Search and Browsing in the Product Catalogue — A primer for Conversational Search

By Ricardo Sousa and Pedro Miguel Ferreira This is the third part of the series about iFetch, our multimodal conversational agents for the online fashion marketplace. If you have not started reading this series, check the first article before proceeding. Painting the picture for enabling navigation in a conversational system …

Conversational Ai Agents

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Multimodal Search and Browsing in the Product Catalogue — A primer for Conversational Search
Multimodal Search and Browsing in the Product Catalogue — A primer for Conversational Search
Conversational Ai Agents

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Design considerations for Fitting Room “Magic Mirror” Technology

By Antão Almada A mirror where people can see themselves wearing virtual clothing has always been considered magical or something from sci-fi movies. Given the quick advances in technology, expectations are very high. People expect it to be fully established by now. There are already many examples of “virtual try-on”…

Product

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Design considerations for Fitting Room “Magic Mirror” Technology
Design considerations for Fitting Room “Magic Mirror” Technology
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Understanding and following up on our customers’ intentions

By Pedro Azevedo This is the second part of the series about iFetch, multimodal conversational agents for the online fashion marketplace. If you haven’t started reading this series, check the first article before going further. In the near future, AI agents will mediate the majority of interactions between large organisations…

Technology

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Understanding and following up on our customers’ intentions
Understanding and following up on our customers’ intentions
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KEDA in Kubernetes for a Stream Processor Service

By Felipe Lino FARFETCH works with top technologies such as Kubernetes, Kafka, Cassandra, MongoDB among others. And this article is about KEDA (Kubernetes Event-Driven Autoscaling) and how we find a good way to use it to scale a stream processor application. Motivation KEDA with the Prometheus Scaler available on FARFETCH opens…

Technology

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KEDA in Kubernetes for a Stream Processor Service
KEDA in Kubernetes for a Stream Processor Service
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Establishing a knowledge network with Academic Institutions in Machine Learning research

A case study of co-organization in the VISUM Summer School By Ricardo Sousa INTRODUCTION In 2021 and 2022, our team partnered with the VISion Understanding and Machine intelligence (VISUM) summer school to organize a project, define a small contest, and provide mentoring, respectively. …

Technology

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Establishing a knowledge network with Academic Institutions in Machine Learning research
Establishing a knowledge network with Academic Institutions in Machine Learning research
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·Nov 7

Are you overloading your mind?

By Inês Machado In an era where mental health is increasingly claiming space in our daily lives, it is essential to bring this concern to our workplace as well. If vigorous mental health brings more productivity to the performance of a professional activity, a Cognitive Load adjusted to the capacity…

Culture

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Are you overloading your mind?
Are you overloading your mind?
Culture

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·Oct 23

The power of stories and micro decisions: water polo teams vs product teams

By Pedro Cerqueira I was a water polo player before I was a product manager. I played water polo for 20 years and learned many important lessons. …

Product

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The power of stories and micro decisions: water polo teams vs product teams
The power of stories and micro decisions: water polo teams vs product teams
Product

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·Sep 19

Mock like cattle, scenarios like pets

By Manuel Meireles The Problem As a developer working on end-user apps that consume platform services through public APIs, it can be very frustrating to develop and test my features due to the environments. The bigger and more complex the platform side becomes, the harder it is to have a stable and…

Technology

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Mock like cattle, scenarios like pets
Mock like cattle, scenarios like pets
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·Aug 28

How kafkaflow supercharged FARFETCH’s event-driven architecture

By Filipe Esch and Guilherme Ferreira FARFETCH relies on an event-driven architecture to handle more than 150k messages per second, only in one region. Leveraging Apache Kafka, this architecture serves as the backbone of the operations. But autonomy comes at a price in a distributed system like this. Having many…

Technology

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How kafkaflow supercharged FARFETCH’s event-driven architecture
How kafkaflow supercharged FARFETCH’s event-driven architecture
Technology

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·Jul 31

Contextual Business Concepts

By Joaquim Baptista How do you explain a large complex system that is under constant rework to pursue an evolving business reality? Founded in 2007 by José Neves for the love of fashion, and launched in 2008, FARFETCH began as an e-commerce marketplace for luxury boutiques worldwide. …

Tech Communication

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Contextual Business Concepts
Contextual Business Concepts
Tech Communication

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