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…

‘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…

Real-time Music Visualization on the iPhone GPU

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…

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…

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

On this (special) occasion, the…

Women’s Voices — A Data 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…

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pops up, reading “Error: Something went wrong” Or you’re developing a new feature and attempting to interact with this outdated API that just returns NO when you call [Obscure.sharedManager doYourMagic] … And you’re frustrated!

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…

Creating cron job vitals with Prometheus Pushgateway

Software Engineering is often all about automating what can be automated. That’s why we build cron jobs. cron is a utility that can be found in any Unix-like system, used to schedule tasks and commands that need to be executed repeatedly (i.e. every hour or every day). For example, we…

A journey towards Atomic Design on Android

This expansion…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.

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…

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…

‘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…

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…

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

What The Bug? Our method to detect outliers

Who are we? We are the Data-Analytics team. Insights, numbers, dashboards… we provide data to our company. The goal? Help business and product teams in designing music and digital experiences that will be the best they can be for our users. Why do we need to detect outliers? As a tech data team, we rely on different KPIs. We check…

Detecting explicit content in songs

We’ve done some research about how to automatically detect explicit content in songs using only the music itself, and no additional metadata. Since it’s a sensitive and subjective issue, we did not want to use a black-box model, but rather build a modular system whose decisions can be traced back…

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…

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…