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Case Study: How Pinterest Built a Stream Processing Platform with Apache Flink

By Chen Qin

Facing rapid growth and competition in its online business, Pinterest had to evolve its data stack from offline-only ETL batch jobs to near-real-time big data applications. But stateful stream processing is ...

How The Home Depot develops software with OpenSource

By Cade Thacker, Jermaine Davis

Cade Thacker and Jermaine Davis explain how The Home Depot built a culture of open source development. Along the way, they share perspectives on the coding, tooling, and processes that built ...

How Spotify uses machine learning to personalize the user experience

By Mounia Lalmas

Understanding user listening behavior is essential for personalizing music listening experiences on Spotify. Mounia Lalmas explains how Spotify uses machine learning recommenders that take into account what and how users consume ...

Pinterest's journey to the cloud

By Micheal Benedict

Pinterest helps you discover and do what you love. Pinterest's infrastructure is built to cater to its scale—over 150M MAUs across the globe contributing and combing through a billion pins—which has ...

Case Study: How Tools & Solutions Survived a Ransomware Attack

By Partha Majumdar

With the large number of high-profile incidents in the last few years, you’ve likely heard of ransomware attacks—a type of cybercrime where hackers use malware to encrypt network files, locking users ...

UX research at Airbnb: Making sentiment surveys practical

By Judd Antin

Companies today routinely use behavioral metrics for tactical and strategic decision-making at scale. Effective use of sentiment survey data—information about users' attitudes, values, and beliefs—is more challenging. Judd Antin shares tested ...