Building interactive email with AMP

AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) is an open source technology created by Google to support fast mobile web pages. Over the years, we’ve partnered with Google and adopted AMP technology in our mobile web pages to deliver a faster, more efficient user experience. Most…

Lerner — using RL agents for test case scheduling

Introduction Netflix brings delightful customer experiences to homes on a variety of devices that continues to grow each day. Partners across the globe leverage Netflix device certification process on a continual basis to ensure that quality products and experiences are…

Introducing our Latest National Brand Campaign, “Pop-Up”

Check out the 30-second ad…

We’ll keep you on the move

Pricing Base Fare: ₹10/km Per Km Charge: ₹3/km up to 5km ₹6/km after 5km New users get first 3 rides free, for trips under 3kms Note: Dunzo Bike is available only on Android devices Terms & Conditions: 1. Take a minimum of 5 bike rides to enter the contest 2. Top users who take maximum bike rides within a span of 3 weeks will win Cult.fit memberships worth 3 months. 3. Applicable on bike rides only. 4. Applicable only for Hyderabad bike rides.

HierTCN: Deep learning models for dynamic recommendations and inferring user interests

As we build a visual discovery engine, it’s crucial to understand user intent and serve relevant content through recommender systems that constantly learn from a cross-section of data to dynamically predict the next idea a Pinner will love. However, we found…

A monolithic architecture for our clients’ hundreds of versions: how we write and support tests

Like any developer, I really enjoy attending conferences and reading articles. It keeps me up-to-date with what’s going on in software development, as well as be in touch with the tech community. So last December when I was invited to speak at the Highload conference — Russia’s largest professional conference…

Reflections on building and maintaining a React Component Library

During my first six months at commercetools, I worked in a product team. I worked with five other developers to deploy user facing features. Then I changed teams. Now I work on UI Kit: our React component library that implements our design system. The biggest change was “who” I was…

Pinterest + ktlint = ❤

It’s been nearly a year since Pinterest’s Android codebase became Kotlin-first, and about two years since we adopted ktlint for Kotlin linting and formatting. Today, we’re sharing that Pinterest has officially taken ownership over the project. Initially, we chose ktlint because of its…

To Affinity and Beyond — Thoughts from my Internship

Hey, everyone, thanks for clicking on my blog post! A bit about myself — I’m a CS student currently taking a gap year before finishing out my senior year of college. After switching from pre-medicine to CS my junior fall and completing an internship with a big bank that…

Reaktive — a multiplatform library for reactive Kotlin

Reactive programming is really popular today not least because it has loads of plus points: the absence of what is called ‘callback hell’; a built-in mechanism for processing errors; and a functional programming style that reduces the likelihood of bugs occurring. It makes it much easier to write multi-threaded code…

Moving Lottie Swiftly into the Future

Come and join us in working on Swift development in our gorgeous office! Lottie is a library for Android, iOS, Web, and Windows that parses Adobe After Effects animations exported as JSON with Bodymovin and renders them natively on mobile and on the web. If you haven’t already read Brandon’s post about the Swift rewrite of Lottie on iOS, check it out! We’d…

Hybrid Search: Building a textual and visual discovery experience at Pinterest

As a visual discovery engine, Pinterest helps you discover ideas even when you don’t know what you’re looking for, or have the words to describe it. Using a mix of technology (including visual search) and community input (thanks to the 175B+ Pins…

Delicious at your door, and now in-room!

This morning, we launched a new partnership with Wyndham Rewards, enabling DoorDash customers to enjoy great local restaurants and fantastic service while they’re traveling. To further extend our commitment to meet customers wherever they are, DoorDash will be available to more than 3,700 Wyndham hotels across the nation. In celebration, guests will receive $0 delivery fees* on all DoorDash orders with promo code WRD, while also receiving 250 Wyndham Rewards points. It’s now more rewarding than ever to enjoy breakfast in bed! If you’re new to DoorDash, this promotion gets even sweeter! New customers can enjoy $5 off**, $0 delivery fees, and up to 2,000 Wyndham Rewards points with promo code WR5. To learn more, visit www.wyndhamrewards.com/doordash. — *$0 Delivery Fee: Valid only for deliveries to participating Wyndham locations. Other fees (including service fee), taxes, and gratuity still apply. All deliveries subject to availability. Must have or create a valid DoorDash account with a valid form of accepted payment on file. Qualifying orders containing alcohol will be charged a $0.01 Delivery Fee. No cash value. Non-transferable. Use promo code WRD to redeem. See full terms and conditions at dasherhelp.doordash.com/offer-terms-conditions. **$5 Off and $0 Delivery Fee: Valid only for deliveries to participating Wyndham locations. First-time DoorDash users only. Limit one per person. Not valid for the purchase of alcohol. Fees, taxes, and gratuity still apply. All deliveries subject to availability. Must have or create a valid DoorDash account with a valid form of accepted payment on file. No cash value. Non-transferable. Use promo code WR5 to redeem. See full terms and conditions at dasherhelp.doordash.com/offer-terms-conditions.

Building up a Data Science Team from Scratch

There are plenty of reasons for companies to incorporate data science and machine learning into their business. It can allow you to better understand and predict customer behavior, automate repetitive manual tasks, detect errors and anomalies faster, evaluate business decisions with data instead of mere intuition, get an edge over…

Android Rx onError Guidelines

“Creating a good API is hard.” — anyone who has created an API used by others As with any API, wrapping your data stream in a Rx observable requires consideration for reasonable error handling and intuitive behavior. The following guidelines are intended to help developers create consistent…

Now Dashing in Winnipeg and 50 Cities Across Canada

Today at DoorDash, we’re launching in our 50th city in Canada: Winnipeg! We’re so excited to continue to expand our Canadian footprint and plan to share our delicious offerings with a total of 100 Canadian cities by the end of 2019. Starting today, DoorDash is available to all Winnipeg residents…

Engineering a Studio Quality Experience With High-Quality Audio at Netflix

Remember the epic opening sequence of Stranger Things 2? The thrill of that car chase through Pittsburgh not only introduced a whole new set of mysteries, but it returned…

Rock out with your guac out.

Raise your burrito high — we’re celebrating one year of Chipotle on DoorDash! Because we wouldn’t have gotten this far without you (and your love of fresh, hand-mashed avocado), enjoy FREE chips and guacamole on orders of $10 or more using code CHIPSNGUAC on DoorDash for one day only, April…

Python at Netflix

As many of us prepare to go to PyCon, we wanted to share a sampling of how Python is used at Netflix. We use Python through the full content lifecycle, from deciding which content to fund all…

Achieving State Of The Art Results In Natural Language Processing

Part 2: ELMo, BERT and MT-DNN In my previous article I covered some of the fundamental concepts in NLP. This time, I will introduce ELMo, BERT and MT-DNN, architectures which leverage these concepts and have recently achieved some State Of The Art (SOTA) results on NLP tasks. Embeddings from Language Models (ELMo) An introduction to ELMo can be found in this…

Achieving State Of The Art Results In Natural Language Processing:

Part 1: Fundamental Concepts Badoo is the largest dating network in the world, with over millions of registered users worldwide. Users of our site are prompted to write an “About me” section in order to give any prospective love interests a little bit more information about themselves.

Optimizing Kafka for the cloud

Takeaways Developing locality aware systems and balancing algorithms can help substantially reduce cost Making Kafka Producer and Consumer rack aware helps efficiently route traffic Data-driven engineering decision making is critical to continuously improve systems One of the fundamental principles when operating in the…

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…

The history of infrastructure at Zendesk (Part 3) — Foundation team forming and evolving

Introduction In Part 2, I wrote about our adventures moving from physical data centers to the Cloud. Let’s move on to how we transformed our organizational structure to take advantage of being in the Cloud and enable self-service. Building the foundation In early 2018, our organizational structure was stereotypically old…

Introducing SVT-AV1: a scalable open-source AV1 framework

Netflix Headquarters, Winchester Circle. Netflix headquarters circa 2014. It’s a nice building with good architecture! This was the primary home of Netflix for a number of years during the company’s growth, but at some point Netflix had outgrown its home and needed more space. One approach to solve this problem would have been to…