Tips and Tricks
All code is guilty until proven otherwise
Shiran Goffer | 17 Jul 2019 | Tips and Tricks
Delivering good product to live environment requires big effort from R&D. Under the software development life cycle, we Read More...
Going Old-School: Designing Algorithms for Fast Weighted Sampling in Production
Shaked Zychlinski | 06 Jun 2019 | Big Data
If you happen to write code for a living, there’s a pretty good chance you’ve found yourself explaining Read More...
Bucket the shuffle out of here!
Igor Berman and Radik Komarnitsky | 28 Mar 2019 | Big Data
Intro At Taboola we use Spark extensively throughout the pipeline. Regularly faced with Spark-related scalability challenges, we look Read More...
TensorFlow – The Scope of Software Engineering
Yoel Zeldes | 05 Feb 2019 | Tips and Tricks
How to structure your TensorFlow graph like a software engineer So you’ve finished training your model, and Read More...
Beginner’s guide for naming things in your code
Lior Halfon | 05 Feb 2019 | Tips and Tricks
“Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.” Read More...
Want to improve as an engineer? Face your fears and try public speaking
Tidhar Klein Orbach | 16 Jan 2019 | Tips and Tricks
Ever thought about presenting your work to others? Talking in a meetup or a conference? In the past Read More...
Get real life debugging using Kibana and Elastic
Eyal Zur | 30 Dec 2018 | Big Data
We all have these amazing machines in our development and testing labs, and we know that our real Read More...
Stop reading, start talking. A new way to share knowledge.
Dotan Laks | 21 Nov 2018 | System
Knowledge sharing is critical for every company that wants to grow and improve. The bigger the company – Read More...
Predicting Probability Distributions Using Neural Networks
Shaked Zychlinski | 13 Nov 2018 | Data Science
If you’ve been following our tech blog lately, you might have noticed we’re using a special type of Read More...
How Azure Data Explorer Helped Us Make Sense of 1M Log Lines per Second
Ariel Pisetzky | 07 Nov 2018 | System
As VP of IT at Taboola, my teams and I are overwhelmed with logs, pinned down by the Read More...
How I Resolved Delays in Kafka Messages by Prioritizing Kafka Topics
Gal Shelach | 17 Oct 2018 | Big Data
As a team member in the Scale Performance Data group of Taboola’s R&D, I had the opportunity to Read More...
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Hyperparameter Tuning
Yoel Zeldes | 14 Jun 2018 | Data Science
Now that more than a year has passed since our first deep learning project emerged, we have had Read More...
5 Simple tips for boosting your Jenkins performance
Tidhar Klein Orbach | 30 May 2018 | Tips and Tricks
Do you know that feeling when you’ve finished working on a feature, pushed the code, but then your Read More...
Using Word2Vec for Better Embeddings of Categorical Features
Inbar Naor | 25 Apr 2018 | Data Science
Back in 2012, when neural networks regained popularity, people were excited about the possibility of training models without Read More...
How Re2 Shattered My Bottleneck
Ohad Edelstein | 13 Mar 2018 | Tips and Tricks
One pleasant morning I got to work, thinking this day couldn’t get any better. But as Murphy would Read More...
More than one Graph - Code Reuse in TensorFlow
Deep Learning - from Prototype to Production
Neural Networks from a Bayesian Perspective