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

A journey towards Atomic Design on Android

This expansion…

Matching Albums through Cover Art Fingerprinting

‘Hey Siri, play my Flow on Deezer’ (part 2): integrating SiriKit with Deezer

Following WWDC19 announcements, Deezer quickly decided to support Media Intent with SiriKit. To know more about all the benefits of integrating a voice assistant in your app, you can read this post written by Anna Louis, Product Owner of Voice at Deezer. Adding support of SiriKit…

Deezer ConTEST, where Product and QA meet

As the event will take place in Paris, this post is available both in French and in English (scroll down for the English version). Nous organisons Deezer ConTEST, premier événement qui associera une quarantaine de participants dans le cadre d’une journée de challenges, de brainstorming et de chasse aux…

Musicathon — Let’s Rock IT Innovation

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…

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…

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…

A better way to search for music through query suggestion

At Deezer, we are fully aware that the number one reason why users subscribe to our service is to access the depth of our catalogue of 50 million tracks. And for that the Search is key. Some history To provide a best in class user experience, the Search team at Deezer had…

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…

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

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…

Some Fun with Deezer Data and Elastic Graph

A year ago the Elastic team released the Graph product, whose promise is to offer: a new way to discover, and explore, the relationships that live in your data. Here we will describe how Graph could be used on Deezer data to rebuild our “Similar Artists” feature. What do we…

HAMR@ISMIR2018 — Deezer HQ

We hosted the 2018 ISMIR edition of the HAMR Hackathon. It was awesome, people from all over the world collaborated on fun and innovative research topics during two days. A lot of very cool projects emerged. Most of them won’t stick but some will, and that -you have to admit…

Towards an Accessible Player

The “Able Player”, a fully accessible music player that we used as an example of best-practices. You can find out more about it here Earlier this year, Deezer hosted one of its regular Hackathons, giving developers from different teams the chance to collaborate on ad-hoc projects or fun ideas they…

From Paris to Bordeaux, an interview with Deezer’s CTO

On this (special) occasion, the…

Updating Kubernetes CA certificates the hard way

So buckle up; it might be a bumpy ride! The hard way yes, but automated! At Deezer, Kubernetes has…

Computing Royalties at Deezer

Deezer, as a streaming service, needs to pay royalties to music providers (record companies that make their music available on Deezer) as well as publishers and copyright collective management organisations so that the music you listen to gets payed at the right price according to the number of times it…

‘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…

Women’s Voices — A Product Design Story

This post is part of a series about the women behind ‘Women’s Voices’, an in-app story created by Deezer for International Women’s Day: 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…

Akka as a bridge between REST and Kafka

Source: sciencing.com At Deezer, we love to play different chords, and to play with different technologies. Here we will present a solution to the problem of receiving millions of messages per day from a REST endpoint, processing them and pushing them back to Kafka. Inspired by The Reactive…

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…

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.

Visualize your music DNA with Data

At Deezer, we take the world of music and make it personal. That’s why we designed Flow, your personal soundtrack, and a dynamic home page to help you find your perfect tracks in no time. But does personal content only revolve around music recommendation? Of course not! This article will…