Using Spark Dynamic Allocation
The story starts with metrics. Every mature software company needs to have a metric system ...
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Fear of breaking production? Use Grafana!
In Taboola, we deal with scale, huge scale. A small issue might turn into a ...
‘Tis the Season: Fun with (Decision) Trees
At Taboola, we work daily on improving our Deep-Learning-based content-recommendation model. We use it to ...
A QA Party is the BEST Party in town!
Sometimes we need to test urgent features fast. It has to be within a very ...
Exploiting Multi-Categorical Features Using Deep Interest
At Taboola, our goal is to predict whether users will click on the ads we ...
Analog Clocks with NTP
Synchronized Clocks: Someone has to be blamed… I blame Ariel. He took one look at ...
How teaching in high school helped me become a better team lead
A few years ago, one of my friends suggested me to become a cybersecurity teacher ...
All code is guilty until proven otherwise
Delivering good product to live environment requires big effort from R&D. Under the software development ...
Going Old-School: Designing Algorithms for Fast Weighted Sampling in Production
If you happen to write code for a living, there’s a pretty good chance you’ve ...
Bucket the shuffle out of here!
Intro At Taboola we use Spark extensively throughout the pipeline. Regularly faced with Spark-related scalability ...
TensorFlow – The Scope of Software Engineering
How to structure your TensorFlow graph like a software engineer So you’ve finished training your ...
Beginner’s guide for naming things in your code
“Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that ...