Using Chatbots to Provide Faster COVID-19 Community Support

United We Brand

Competition makes us faster, collaboration makes us better. At Dunzo, we take this adage to heart. Our endeavour as a business, has always been to speak authentically, and serve willingly. We have attempted in every decision, to make empathy a prominent guiding force. Be it our Friendship Day campaign which…

SwiftUI & UIView — A Simple Mistake

I recently made a simple mistake. An implementation which appeared correct, based on its initial usage, turned out to be incorrect when its usage changed. But before we start, although this post describes the mistake I made and shows you how…

Your Security is our Top Priority!

*This blog has been updated on July 29th, 1:50 PM IST Every time you use Dunzo, you trust your order to be delivered safely and promptly. We expect that too and that is why our teams are constantly working to ensure that your orders are always in safe hands, from…

Using PID controllers to diversify content types on home feed

Every day millions of Pinners visit the home feed to find inspiration on Pinterest. As a member of the home feed ranking team, it’s my job to not only figure out what relevant pins to show Pinners but also to make sure that…

Byte Down: Making Netflix’s Data Infrastructure Cost-Effective

Background on data efficiency At Netflix, we invest heavily in our data infrastructure which is composed of dozens of data platforms, hundreds of data producers and consumers, and petabytes of data. At many other organizations, an effective way to manage data infrastructure costs is to…

Introducing New Initiatives to Support Black-owned Businesses on DoorDash and Caviar

Today, we’re sharing that: We will be matching loans for Black-owned businesses through a new partnership…

‘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…

iOS Training Log — Drawing striped overlays onto a bubble visualization

Strava recently shipped the (previously web & Android only) Training Log to iOS devices, which represents the athlete’s previous activities using bubbles. A “bubble”, in the context of this post, shows the accumulated volume of some activity dimension (distance, time, etc.) for a given day. This will add up the…

How we run gamedays in Talk

While we can sometimes see our products as simply a bundle of operations with corresponding Service Level Indicators and Objectives, we also need to keep in mind the human factor responsible for maintaining these agreements. Introduction This article idea came after a 2019 EMEA SREcon talk that strongly resonated with me…

Empowering Pinterest data scientists and machine learning engineers with PySpark

Data scientists and machine learning engineers at Pinterest found themselves hitting major challenges with existing tools. Hive and Presto were readily accessible tools for large scale data transformations, but complex logic…

Netflix Studio Engineering Overview

Netflix is revolutionizing the way a modern studio operates. Our mission in Studio Engineering is to build a unified, global, and digital studio that powers the effective production of amazing content. Studio Engineering at Netflix …

Checking your app’s paid services without losing money

Checking paid services is crucial in Badoo and Bumble apps testing process. Our applications are integrated with 70 payment providers in 250 countries. This means that bugs at any integration can seriously affect revenues, and in unpredictable ways. In this article, you will learn about methods that we employ in…

Celebrating Immigrant Heritage Month

In honor of Immigrant Heritage Month, we’re highlighting cultural heritage and the immigrant experience through our restaurant partners’ eyes. This month and every month, we invite you to hear their stories, celebrate their contributions, share their perspectives, and support the Kitchens Without Borders businesses that enrich our communities. Here’s a…

‘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…

One Dun Mumbai!

This week, we celebrate the completion of one incredible year of Dunzo serving in Amchi Mumbai! It’s indeed been a roller coaster of a year and we’re proud to have survived and thrived, winning hearts, one completed order at a time. It’s been a fantastic journey, and we are glad, with the support of our partners and merchants, to have catered to our users’ every need to the best of our ability. In happy times 549 flowers deliveries In times of need 3,575 sanitary pad deliveries For that boring chore 4,964 dish soap deliveries For love and more 3,984 condom deliveries Whether day or night 1,04,948 night deliveries To help feel alright 25,666 medicine deliveries For a furry friend 1,342 pet food deliveries Or a buddy at the other end 57,104 package deliveries To get a lot Dun, in very little time 3,13,85,965 hours saved Count on us to bring anything, at any time 11,72,155 deliveries made Mumbai as they say, is about going the extra mile 27,84,016 km travelled It’s about opening hearts, and gifting a smile 31,470 tips received Our endeavour has been to forge a three sided market place by empowering local merchants to come online, and providing employment to tens of thousands of people, while saving time for millions of Indians.It is trust and support from all our stakeholders, that keep our wheels turning. Here’s a giant thank you for encouraging us to better ourselves everyday. We truly appreciate all our merchants, users and partners for being with us in our journey to simplify lives. Here’s to having a dream run in the city of dreams!

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2020 Census: Do your part while you wait for your order

DoorDash believes that all voices should be heard. That’s why we’re reminding everyone in our community who resides in the U.S. and Puerto Rico to complete the 2020 census. This important process takes place only once every 10 years but takes less…

DoorDash Raises Additional Capital from New Investors

Today, we are announcing that we are raising approximately $400 million in a Series H financing led by new investors Durable Capital Partners LP and Fidelity Management & Research Co., and existing investors, funds and accounts advised by T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc. We are thrilled to team up with…

How we created an effective, game-based team feedback framework

Image designed by Freepik TL;DR: How we improvised and created our own full-fledged team feedback framework and made it fun with a game for progress evaluation. This framework is an internal tool to improve the team collaboration and does not relate to our approach at performance evaluation. Every team is a complex of people…

How probable are collisions with ULID’s monotonic option?

There’s a lot of excitement at Zendesk about ULID. As a universally unique identifier format, ULID has become a popular alternative to UUID in recent years. For most of our history at Zendesk, we’ve used integer IDs internally for database keys, as well as in our public APIs. We even…

WebRTC on Android: how to enable hardware encoding on multiple devices

For video calls on Badoo and Bumble apps, we use WebRTC with H.264 codec. Relying on relevant documentation, you would think that this codec should work seamlessly on any Android device, starting with Android 5.0. However, in practice, it didn’t go exactly this way. This article covers implementation features of…

Effortless mass change management with Hammurabi

If you have ever developed microservices, you already know some of the challenges around it. If it’s done right, development can speed up, the cognitive complexity of the services can be decreased, and there are many many more advantages over monoliths. On the other hand, you have to solve different…

Using Hopper to investigate an IOS bug

In this article, I share how we investigated a bug in UIKit, which Apple wasn’t able to solve since the introduction of a new major iOS version until the recent release of iOS 13.4.1. The problem was first noticed in August 2019 with the first beta versions of iOS13. In…

MVI in Kotlin Multiplatform — part 2 (2 of 3)

This is the second in a series of three articles on MVI architectural pattern in Kotlin Multiplatform. In the article part 1 we reminded ourselves what MVI is and learned how to use it to write shared code using MVI. We defined simple abstractions like Store and View as well…