A few weeks ago, we spoke at OpenSearchCon India about how we make search fast and reliable at scale at Blinkit. I’m Harshit , from the Search Engineering team at Blinkit, and this year we got to speak at OpenSearchCon India at the Jio World Convention Centre in Mumbai. In this post, I’ll walk you through our talk, the conversations…
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24 Jul
26 Feb
How we train Dash's search ranking models with a mix of human and LLM-assisted labeling.
25 Nov 2024
How we improved Canva’s private design search while respecting the privacy of our community.
8 Nov 2024
Background and motivation In the fast-paced world of software development, having the right tools can make all the difference. At Slack, we’ve been working on a set of AI-powered developer tools that are saving 10,000+ hours of developer time yearly, while meeting our strictest requirements for security, data protection, and compliance. In this post, we’ll…
8 Nov 2023
First and foremost, I express my gratitude for stopping by my corner of the internet! I trust that the content that follows will provide valuable insights and prove beneficial to individuals interested in the Machine Learning Engineer(MLE) internship opportunity at Strava or just general ML work. About me Greetings from Shuyi! Currently a fifth-year Ph.D. candidate in Statistics at ASU,…
9 Oct 2023
Introduction Ever wondered what it’s like to intern as a software engineer at Slack? Picture yourself on the famous Ohana floor—the 61st floor of the Salesforce Tower in San Francisco— it is one of many privileges we had as interns. Not only did our experience with Slack’s Data Engineering team let us step onto the…
17 Nov 2022
Ketakii Patni (she/her/hers) works as Senior Executive at Blinkit . She joined us 9 months ago and has played a key role in Consumer Search Content ever since. Ketakii was interested in the marketing and operational aspects of a business, which led her to pursue an MBA in the same field. In this post, Ketakii walks through her journey of…
21 Mar 2019
In the past, the Search Team at SoundCloud had high lead times for making updates to Elasticsearch clusters, either during the implementation of a new feature or simply while fixing a bug. This was because both tasks require us to reindex our catalog from scratch, which means reindexing more than 720 million users, tracks, playlists, and albums. Altogether, this process…
24 Jan 2018
SoundCloud consists of hundreds of millions of tracks, people, albums, and playlists, and navigating this vast collection of music and personalities poses a large challenge, particularly with so many covers, remixes, and original works all in one place.