Serverless commercetools Integration

Serverless Commercetools Plugin commercetools's plugin for the Serverless Framework allows you to seamlessly integrate your serverless functions with…www.serverless.com commercetools API Extensions and Subscriptions allow you to customize and extend e-commerce functionality based on your company’s unique business needs. The Serverless Framework allows for fast and painless development of serverless cloud applications by introducing easy to use testing, CI/CD, scaling, and…

DoorDash Releases First-Ever Economic Impact Report

Understanding the product cycle of discovery to purchase on Pinterest

Pinners have always used Pinterest for shopping, as they often come in a planning mindset and are exploring products and…

Documentation: it’s more than words

Software development is as much about communication as it is about functionality. At its core, code reflects business processes and business logic. Software never exists solely in a vacuum, it is surrounded by both context and people. Tracking the history of a business and its software becomes an increasingly important…

100,000 deliveries with United Way

At the onset of the pandemic, we announced a partnership with United Way Worldwide through our social impact program Project DASH. We are proud to share the milestone of 100,000 deliveries of food boxes and household supplies to vulnerable populations in 175…

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…

The New Training Log

Building a Micro Frontend App in a Month at Strava Background The original Training Log was built and released in 2013. The log is a calendar of an athlete’s activities, represented as color-coded, scaled bubbles based on each activity’s type and stats. Weekly totals summarize the activity for each week and displays progress attained on that week’s goals. Written in Coffeescript…

Building Services at Airbnb, Part 4

By Junjie Guan, Rui Dai and Xing An Intro In Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 of our Building Services at Airbnb series, we shared how…

The Main Street Strong Conference: New Speakers, Agenda, Registration Details and More!

Back in August, DoorDash announced plans to host our first ever merchant conference in the fall. A conference to celebrate our community of partners is something we’ve always aspired to, but this year it seemed more important than ever to create a merchant-led and inspired…

Virtual onboarding in the time of COVID-19: The new hire’s new normal

Cindy Xinyi Zhang | Data Scientist, Experimentation and Metrics Science On March 2nd, exactly one week before my full-time position at Pinterest started…

Evaluating Apache Pulsar

Zendesk currently use Kafka, primarily for publishing of events. We are also considering publishing the state of entities to Kafka, using compacted topics to keep only the latest version of an entity. We do this already, but are considering it for much larger data sets. These compacted topics will be…

DoorDash Welcomes Maria Renz As Our Third Outside Director

“We are excited to welcome Maria to our Board of Directors. She is a true operator with hands-on experience bringing e-commerce to scale,” said…

Striving in the Time of COVID-19 — My Second Summer at Strava

App Onboarding with SwiftUI

Onboarding is the process of helping users to understand an app, and hopefully, encouraging them to continue to use it. Onboarding flows usually consist of one or more screens explaining how a user can use the app, and often involve some input from the user, e.g signing up, logging in…

Introducing visx from Airbnb

by Chris Williams & Harrison Shoff After 3 years of development, 2.5 years of production use at Airbnb, and a rewrite in TypeScript we are excited to announce the official 1.0 release of visx (formerly vx). You can find the project on GitHub and browse documentation and examples on airbnb.io. …

Pre-Submit Integration Tests For Ads-Serving

Introduction & Background The ads-serving platform is the highest-scale, highest-complexity, and highest-velocity recommendation service at Pinterest. Our ads business is growing and expanding, and the ads engineering team is iterating quickly to continue to improve the system. Therefore, it is vital to keep the system healthy, in order…

How Our Paths Brought Us to Data and Netflix

by Julie Beckley & Chris Pham This Q&A provides insights into the diverse set of skills, projects, and culture within Data Science and Engineering (DSE) at Netflix through the eyes of two team members: Chris Pham and Julie Beckley. Photo from a team curling offsite — There’s us to the right! [Chris] Julie and I joined the Streaming DSE team at Netflix…

Analytics at Netflix: Who we are and what we do

by Molly Jackman & Meghana Reddy Explained: Season 1 (Photo Credit: Netflix) Across nearly every industry, there is recognition that data analytics is key to driving informed business decision-making. But there is far less agreement on what that term “data analytics” actually means — or what to call the people responsible for the work. Even within…

DUN101 | Reclaiming the free storage in Postgres

Introduction Do you have a strong data archival policy or frequently delete/update data in your Postgres tables but do not see the storage space becoming available? You would have stumbled upon Postgres Vacuuming, which is slow and requires downtime to free up storage space. We implemented pg_repack and here’s how it…

Racecar v2: A New Foundation

It’s been three years since we introduced Racecar, a simple framework for building Kafka consumer applications that worked seamlessly with or without Ruby on Rails. With Racecar, building a consumer application for processing…

Routes Editing is the Real MVP

Tired, feet sore, and throat hoarse from nothing but networking the previous few days, I happened to glance up and see a booth plastered in athletic graphics. I was at the Grace Hopper Conference in Orlando, Florida, and I didn’t realize it at the moment, but I was looking at…

Affinity Design Library

Design as a craft is largely a product of labor — design-thinking, hands-on pixel pushing, creating documentation — all in the process of transforming an idea into reality. But what we read can say a lot about how we think, where those ideas come from, and ultimately, how we design. …

Customers & Merchants Join Dunzo’s Mascot Universe — The Duniverse!

#VarietyMakesUs As a platform built on and for delivery partners, merchants, and users, Dunzo’s creative philosophy has always been centered around its customers and merchants. The idea that #VarietyMakesUs is deeply embedded in Dunzo’s value system, and we have repeatedly emphasized this theme in many of our campaigns in the past…

Announcing Donations to 20 Organizations Fighting Racial Injustice

In June of this year, our CEO Tony Xu announced a series of actions that DoorDash would take to stand together for justice. Among the many steps taken, the company seeded a $500K fund to be directed by the Black@ DoorDash Employee Resource Group (ERG). I’m honored to work at…

Transform your Automation Suite Into a Testing Product — Part 1

When we talk about the test product that is owned and managed by the testing team, what comes to your mind immediately. Is it a test suite, test management tool, or any defect tracking tool? I guess the most obvious one that comes to your mind is the test suite…