What’s Right with Errors

You’re enjoying your app when suddenly an error message pops up, reading “Error: Something went wrong” Or you’re developing a new feature and attempting to interact with this outdated API that just returns NO when you call [Obscure.sharedManager doYourMagic] … And you’re frustrated!

Merging like it’s 2099

Anyone who has worked with a big team on a big project has experienced merge conflicts at least once. Presentation of AutoMergeTool at AndroidMakers 2017 If you have never seen a list of ‘CONFLICT’ lines when rebasing or merging…

Real-time Music Visualization on the iPhone GPU

FOSDEM 2018

What is FOSDEM? FOSDEM (Free and Open-source Software Developer’s European Meeting) is one of the largest European open-source and non-commercial conference, taking place annually at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. This year it offered more than 650 lectures presented by 600 speakers on 50 different themes. It’s a real place to share and…

A distributed computation system for deep learning experiments with Docker Compose and RabbitMQ.

I went to a conference on tech leadership, and you should too

In the past few weeks, I got a lot of those. For some reason in our community (or at least, in the subset of it I am currently involved with), a tech conference should be about learning actual technical skills (this…

Web and Surf Summit afterglow: a Product Manager’s review

Private libraries in Android — why you should consider it.

Part 1: Private libraries in Android — why you should consider it Part 2: Private libraries in Android — how to manage them Libraries are one of the foundations of Android development. Think about all dependencies in your Android projects…

Throwback to Deezer ConTEST: the first hackathon for Product and QA

Deezer has a long tradition of hosting and organizing tech events such as internal or external hackathons, meetups, and more. Our motivation is to offer our people learning experiences by connecting them to external communities. Deezer ConTest was about encouraging our QA and…

Women & Hip-Hop

Playlist inspired by the article: Women & Hip-Hop playlist - Listen now on Deezer | Music Streaming nielswww.deezer.com Introduction Hip-Hop was born in 1973 on 1520 Sedgwick Avenue in the Bronx, NYC. On January 4th 2018, it became the most consumed music genre in the United States, surpassing rock for the first time in history. In between those years, Hip-Hop and especially rap music…

Improving your ingestion performance using the multidisciplinary approach

When it comes to solving a problem, developers often tend to use the technologies they’re comfortable with — the technologies they work with on a daily basis. Most of the time this is fine — we work within a specific scope in which this technology makes sense and has already…

Back from Kubecon & CloudnativeCon Europe 2021: key learnings and takeaways

At Deezer, we think that taking part in the community is of utmost importance. Contributing to open source projects is the best way to do so, but participating in community events should not be overlooked. And when you work on Kubernetes platforms like we…

Content Import en PHP chez Deezer

Deezer is a partner of the PHP Tour 2017 and several of our developers…

Deezer Introduces Search by Lyric

Deezer at ICASSP 2017

I went to ICASSP in New Orleans to present a (small) part of the research done at Deezer in the R&D team. It was the opportunity to exchange with the community and gather much valuable knowledge and ideas. Our work was about using Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) to solve a…

Deezer @ Kaggle Days Paris — 5 Takeaways from the Presentations and the Competition

I was lucky enough to attend the second edition of Kaggle Days, which took place in Paris in January. 200 Data Scientists from all over the world gathered over two days for exciting Data Science-oriented conferences, workshops, brainstorming sessions… and an offline Kaggle competition! If you haven’t heard of Kaggle…

From a few insights to a key feature

Product conception is based on a multitude of factors: data analytics, market research, benchmark, feedback from users/stores/customer support, user testing, intuition…And it always requires a few steps (and sometimes more than expected) to go from the initial concept or hypothesis to the final product pushed to all users. During my…

Releasing Spleeter: Deezer R&D source separation engine

In a nutshell We are releasing Spleeter to help the research community in Music Information Retrieval (MIR) leverage the power of a state-of-the-art source separation algorithm. It comes in the form of a Python Library based on Tensorflow, with pretrained models for 2, 4 and 5 stems separation. Spleeter will be presented…

Women’s Voices — A Product Story

Part. 1: Women’s Voices — A Product Story Part. 2: Women’s Voices — A Brand Story Part. 3: Women’s Voices — A Data Story Part. 4: Women’s Voices — A…

Using a “go links” service in your organization

When I joined Deezer three years ago, the onboarding process (called DeezCover) was undergoing a complete redesign, so mine was relatively brief. I struggled to find my way around the company’s organization and documentation as I stepped into my new job. Of course, there was an internal Wiki, but you…

Engines revving for my first hackathon!

Since the previous…

From 2 weeks to 15 minutes — How we optimized playlist generation

‘Hey Siri, play my Flow on Deezer’ (part 1.): a product introduction

Voice interactive devices and services have significantly spread over the last four years. Consequently, voice assistants have become smarter and more sophisticated in their ability to handle new and complex demands. Moreover, voice assistance has also become an available feature in more and more devices. In 2018, Apple announced that…

Introducing an improved Deezer experience on Xbox: access your favorite songs directly while…

A little context The Xbox Guide By pressing the Xbox button on your controller, you access the Xbox Guide. This is…

Let’s meet at Android Makers 2017

Next week, Deezer will be partner of Android Makers 2017. Several of our Android engineers will join the event to enjoy the technical sessions, workshops, and debates, learn from others and discuss about our mobile technical challenges and opportunities.