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Real-time Fraud Detection with Yoda and ClickHouse | by Nick Shieh | Mar, 2024 | tech-at-instacart

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Instacart is the leading online grocery company in North America with millions of active customers and shoppers. Combating fraud and abuse on our platform is essential not only for maintaining a trustworthy and safe environment but also for preserving Instacart’s financial health. In this article, we introduce our Fraud Platform, Yoda, explain why we chose ClickHouse as our real-time datastore, and provide insights on how this system helps us combat various types of fraudulent activities. Fraudulent patterns are varied and broad by nature, ranging from fake accounts to payment fraud and collusion between customers and shoppers. Our Fraud Platform team developed Yoda, a decision platform service, to detect such fraudulent activities quickly and take appropriate measures. With Yoda, we implement rules that distinguish legitimate activities from fraudulent ones, and define the actions that we should take as a result. Actions can range from flagging the activity for review, blocking the tr

Software Development Clickhouse Feature Engineering Fraud Real Time Analytics Real-time Fraud Detection with Yoda and ClickHouse Nick Shieh 8 min read · Mar 18, 2024 -- 3 Listen Share Press enter or click to view image in full size Authors: Nick Shieh , Shen Zhu , Xiaobing Xia Background Instacart is the leading online grocery company in North America with millions of active customers and shoppers. Combating fraud and abuse on our platform is essential not only for maintaining a trustworthy and safe environment but also for preserving Instacart’s financial health. In this article, we introduce

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