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…

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

Focus and Contrast

The Deezer logo as seen by someone with Protonapia (Red-Green Color-blindness). This image was created using the Chrome extension ChromeLens, which allows you to view a website as seen by someone with a variety of visual conditions, from color-blindness to those with partial sight. In the last article, we looked…

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…

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 Data @ DataWorks Summit Berlin 2018

Shows and conferences about the fast-evolving data technologies follow one after the other and yet each one is so unique! No year passes by without any new challenge to be discussed within the active and passionate data community that Deezer is proud to be part of…

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…

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…

Women’s Voices — A Brand 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…

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…

“Hack as you are” — Story of a Hackathon at Deezer

Today, more and more employees decide to work for a company not only to climb the career ladder or for financial reasons, but in order to…

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…

‘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…

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…

Engines revving for my first hackathon!

Since the previous…

Women’s Voices — A Product Marketing 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…

ISMIR 2018 HAMR @ DEEZER HQ

In 2018, the September rally is pretty exciting :) For the first time in its history, Deezer is really proud to be partnering with ISMIR, the world’s leading research forum on processing, searching, organizing and accessing music-related data.

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…

My first job as a Web Engineer, from doubt to fulfillment

This is what you’ll typically find in the ‘requirements’ section of a tech job vacancy: “Has strong knowledge in several languages, is “full-stack”, is able to create strong architecture, scalable and flexible, has experience in understanding large and complex code bases, must be proactive and organized, has a great team…

Are you chilling right now? Contextualizing music recommendations

As you may know, Sonar Festival is one of the biggest electronic music festivals in Europe and takes place every June in Barcelona. Alongside the festival, Sonar organizes a technical challenge as part of the Sonar +D. For this event, Sonar has partnered with…

Lyrics in French Hip-hop: curious? IAM, and you should be too.

Introduction In 2018, hip-hop was the most consumed genre in the United States. Since then, many analyses have dived deep in understanding the lyrics of those artists. However, as the pioneer of music streaming in France, we wanted to know more about how our local stars created their art. With the…

Deezer Research @RecSys 2017 — 11th ACM Recommender Systems Conference

A key aspect of Deezer product is providing our users with a personalized listening experience. To pick the perfect tracks for the right moment, a wide variety of signal processing and machine learning algorithms are involved in Deezer’s…

Private libraries in Android — how to manage them.

Part 1: Private libraries in Android — why you should consider it Part 2: Private libraries in Android — how to manage them In the first part of the series, we talked about the benefits of private libraries. On top…

Real-time Music Visualization on the iPhone GPU

1001 ways to code your projects, 1 way to meet your needs

Have you ever noticed that there are about 1001 ways to do something, especially in software development? As I tell every developer who joins my team, especially interns or junior devs, no one knows everything and every solution should be considered. I was recently confronted with 1001 ways of doing…