Refactoring Thrift schemas at Pinterest

The Pinterest tech stack consists of hundreds of microservices written in a variety of languages that use Apache Thrift to communicate with each other. Thrift schemas are used to define our service interfaces, constants and serialized data across all levels of the stack…

5 Years and 8 Million Hamburgers Later

A cake for a birthday. A feast for a wedding, or a funeral. When it comes to celebrating our highs or comforting our lows, nothing is more powerful than enjoying a delicious meal with loved ones. As we celebrate our 5-year anniversary at DoorDash, we’re looking back at all the…

How we increased engagement using automatic personalized copy testing

Think about the last time you visited a website. Was there a word that helped draw you in? Now think about how that might be different if you spoke a different language, were a different age or grew up in a different part of…

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…

Netflix at Spark+AI Summit 2018

A glimpse at Spark usage for Netflix Recommendations Apache Spark has been an immensely popular big data platform for distributed computing. Netflix has been using Spark extensively for various batch and stream-processed workloads. A substantial list of use cases for Spark computation come from the various applications in the domain of content recommendations and personalization…

Scaling Postgres at Affinity with Citus

Simplifying Media Innovation at Netflix with Archer

Imagine you are developing a quick prototype to sift through all the frames of the movie Bright to find the best shots of Will Smith with an action-packed background. Your goal is to get the computer vision…

Sunsetting React Native

This is the fourth in a series of blog posts in which we outline our experience with React Native and what is next for mobile at Airbnb.Where are we today? Although many teams relied on React Native and had planned on using it for the foreseeable future, we were ultimately…

What’s Next for Mobile at Airbnb

This is the fifth in a series of blog posts in which we outline our experience with React Native and what is next for mobile at Airbnb. Exciting Times Ahead Even while experimenting with React Native, we continued to accelerate our efforts on native as well. Today, we have a number of exciting…

Building a Cross-Platform Mobile Team

This is the third in a series of blog posts in which we outline our experience with React Native and what is next for mobile at Airbnb. In addition to the countless technical pros and cons of React Native, we learned a ton about what React Native means for an…

React Native at Airbnb: The Technology

This is the second in a series of blog posts in which we outline our experience with React Native and what is next for mobile at Airbnb. React Native itself is a relatively new and fast-moving platform in the cross-section of Android, iOS, web, and cross-platform frameworks. After two years…

React Native at Airbnb

Years later, it’s still possible to book a meeting in our Airstream This is the first in a series of blog posts in which we outline our experience with React Native and what is next for mobile at Airbnb. When Airbnb launched 10 years ago, smartphones were in their infancy. Since then, smartphones have become an essential tool to navigate our everyday…

iOS How-to — Add Adaptive constraints to support a Universal App

Device screen size (e.g iPhone or iPad) Device Orientation (portrait or landscape) Adaptation (multi-tasking on iPad) In this post, we will learn how to add NSLayoutConstraints…

Growth Engineering at Netflix — Accelerating Innovation

Millions of people visit Netflix every day. Many of them are already Netflix members, looking to enjoy their favorite movies and TV shows, and we work hard to ensure they have a great experience. Others are not yet members, and are looking to better understand our service…

Detecting image similarity using Spark, LSH and TensorFlow

As a visual platform, the ability to learn from images to understand our content is important. In order to detect near-duplicate images we use the NearDup system, a Spark- and TensorFlow-based pipeline. At the core of the pipeline is a Spark implementation of batch…

Metacat: Making Big Data Discoverable and Meaningful at Netflix

Most large companies have numerous data sources with different data formats and large data volumes. These data stores are accessed and analyzed by many people throughout the enterprise. At Netflix, our data warehouse consists of a large number of data sets stored in Amazon S3…

Creating the ultimate flexibility via Container components in React

React Components / Zendesk Garden This documentation includes React components and utilities that provide visuals, keyboard-navigation, localization, and…garden.zendesk.com I wrote a Twitter thread on some of the cool stuff we’ve done that could be very useful as a starter for other people. So here’s that thread with some extra goodies, in article form. We’ve utilised a really cool pattern…

The End of Video Coding?

In the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine issue November 2006 article “Future of Video Coding and Transmission” Prof. Edward Delp started by asking the panelists “Is video coding dead? Some feel that, with the higher coding efficiency of the H.264/MPEG-4 . . . perhaps there is not much more to do…

Building Activity Tagging With an Iterative Approach

Have you ever done an activity with a friend, but forgot to record it? Wouldn’t it be awesome if you could turn back the clock and remember to record? Or maybe you ran with a friend who didn’t record and you wanted to introduce to Strava. You’re not alone! A…

Build a Staging Site in 15 Minutes

Background At Affinity, we do a big deploy of our main branch once per day, and smaller deploys of specific features or bug fixes throughout the day. We’ve found that this provides a good…

Apple Dev Guild Week

The team of developers that works on our iPhone and Apple Watch app spends the majority of its time working on feature development during the year. However, for a week in April the Apple Dev Guild had the opportunity to focus on platform health and the future of what writing…

Lessons from Building Observability Tools at Netflix

Automated cluster management and recovery for Rocksplicator

Rocksplicator at Pinterest Rocksplicator (github) was open sourced by Pinterest one and half years ago. It was designed to solve common problems of building large-scale online stateful data systems on commodity hardware, such as RocksDB replication and request routing. Technical details about how Rocksplicator solves…

Crowdtesting

source: pinterest.co.uk It’s been a while since I first heard about crowdsourced testing platforms. It was a time when I had just started to be interested in QA, and when I was browsing Google one day, I found a forum, where a link to the site uTest.com was posted. After a brief…

Growth engineering meetup

Synopsis of the talks Paid growth @ Airbnb Ganesh Venkataraman discusses the various channels and techniques…