machine-learning
Airbnb
Mon Apr 08 2024
Chronon, Airbnb’s ML Feature Platform, Is Now Open Source
Data
Spotify
Tue Apr 02 2024
Data Platform Explained
As engineers working at Spotify, we frequently find ourselves explaining our robust data platform to fellow professionals who are contemplat...
Tue Mar 05 2024
Risk-Aware Product Decisions in A/B Tests with Multiple Metrics
TL;DR We summarize the findings in our recent paper, Schultzberg, Ankargren, and Frånberg (2024), where we explain how Spotify’s decision-ma...
data
Expedia
Wed Jan 03 2024
Search Speed: Making Expedia Flights Faster
infrastructure
LinkedIn
Tue Dec 19 2023
Deployment of Exabyte-Backed Big Data Components
Co-authors: Arjun Mohnot, Jenchang Ho, Anthony Quigley, Xing Lin, Anil Alluri, Michael Kuchenbecker LinkedIn operates one of the world’s lar...
data-visualization
Netflix
Thu Dec 14 2023
Our First Netflix Data Engineering Summit
AI
Cloudflare
Thu Dec 07 2023
ML Ops Platform at Cloudflare
Tue Dec 05 2023
Recursive Embedding and Clustering
Large sets of diverse data present several challenges for clustering, but through a novel approach that combines dimensionality reduction, r...
engineering
Tue Nov 28 2023
Data Quality Score: The next chapter of data quality at Airbnb
data-lake
Powering People’s Data with an Enterprise Platform
data-accuracy
Tue Nov 21 2023
Incremental Processing using Netflix Maestro and Apache Iceberg
Wed Nov 15 2023
Wisdom of Unstructured Data: Building Airbnb’s Listing Knowledge from Big Text Data
Psyberg: Automated end to end catch up
icebergs
Diving Deeper into Psyberg: Stateless vs Stateful Data Processing
data-integrity
1. Streamlining Membership Data Engineering at Netflix with Psyberg
Wed Oct 25 2023
Introducing Voyager: Spotify’s New Nearest-Neighbor Search Library
For the past decade, Spotify has used approximate nearest-neighbor search technology to power our personalization, recommendation, and searc...
data-governance
Lyft
Tue Oct 03 2023
From Big Data to Better Data: Ensuring Data Quality with Verity
Using Synthetic Search Data for Flights Price Forecasting
Thu Sep 28 2023
How to Accurately Test Significance with Difference in Difference Models
When we want to determine the causal effect of a product or business change at Spotify, A/B testing is the gold standard.
Thu Aug 24 2023
Encouragement Designs and Instrumental Variables for A/B Testing
At Spotify, we run a lot of A/B tests.
Wed Aug 16 2023
Experimentation at Spotify: Three Lessons for Maximizing Impact in Innovation
As companies mature, it’s easy to believe that the core experience and most user needs have been resolved, and all that’s left to work towar...
platform-engineering
Mon Aug 14 2023
Where’s My Data — A Unique Encounter with Flink Streaming’s Kinesis Connector
Thu Aug 03 2023
Coming Soon: Confidence — An Experimentation Platform from Spotify
TL;DR: Spotify is releasing a new commercial product for software development teams: a version of our homegrown experimentation platform tha...
Tue Jul 25 2023
Bringing Sequential Testing to Experiments with Longitudinal Data (Part 2): Sequential Testing
In Part 1 of this series, we introduced the within-unit peeking problem that we call the “peeking problem 2.
Wed Jul 19 2023
Taking Charge of Tables: Introducing OpenHouse for Big Data Management
Co-Authors: Sumedh Sakdeo, Lei Sun, Sushant Raikar, Stanislav Pak, and Abhishek Nath Introduction At LinkedIn, we build and operate an open ...
Tue Jul 18 2023
Bringing Sequential Testing to Experiments with Longitudinal Data (Part 1): The Peeking Problem 2.0
Spotify’s approach to challenges in sequential testing with longitudinal data At Spotify, we’re constantly improving our data infrastructur...
Wed Jun 28 2023
Experimenting with Machine Learning to Target In-App Messaging
Messaging at Spotify At Spotify, we use messaging to communicate with our listeners all over the world.
North-America
Career stories: The power of an impactful mentor
Initially a Chicago-based data analyst, Jelanah had her heart set on a more meaningful career in frontend (UI) engineering.
Thu Jun 15 2023
Experimenting at Scale, the Spotify Home Way
Introduction In the fast-paced world of streaming, personalization plays a vital role in enhancing user experiences.
technology
Thu Jun 08 2023
Metis: Building Airbnb’s Next Generation Data Management Platform
scale
Tue May 02 2023
How LIquid Connects Everything So Our Members Can Do Anything
Imagine a tool that can store and connect all the information you need to make decisions and solve problems.
rest.li
Tue Apr 25 2023
How LinkedIn Adopted A GraphQL Architecture for Product Development
With the widespread adoption of Rest.
Thu Jan 05 2023
What’s a “Listening Personality”?
We did a couple of new things in Wrapped this year, and one of these is a thing called Your Listening Personality.