Tips and Tricks
Fear of breaking production? Use Grafana!
Tal Bar Zvi | 07 May 2020 | Big Data
In Taboola, we deal with scale, huge scale. A small issue might turn into a disaster in a Read More...
‘Tis the Season: Fun with (Decision) Trees
Marina Gandlin | 18 Dec 2019 | Data Science
At Taboola, we work daily on improving our Deep-Learning-based content-recommendation model. We use it to suggest personalized news Read More...
A QA Party is the BEST Party in town!
Sefy Cnaany | 04 Dec 2019 | Tips and Tricks
Sometimes we need to test urgent features fast. It has to be within a very short timeframe, when Read More...
Exploiting Multi-Categorical Features Using Deep Interest
Marina Gandlin | 04 Sep 2019 | Data Science
At Taboola, our goal is to predict whether users will click on the ads we present to them. Read More...
Analog Clocks with NTP
Chris Liebman | 21 Aug 2019 | System
Synchronized Clocks: Someone has to be blamed… I blame Ariel. He took one look at the five Read More...
How teaching in high school helped me become a better team lead
Ido Guterman | 08 Aug 2019 | Culture
A few years ago, one of my friends suggested me to become a cybersecurity teacher in high school Read More...
SDK testing with hot swapper
Oren Kochansky | 01 Aug 2019 | Tips and Tricks
In the following article, I describe how we came up with a way to improve the chances that Read More...
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...
5 Simple tips for boosting your Jenkins performance
More than one Graph - Code Reuse in TensorFlow
Predicting Probability Distributions Using Neural Networks
Deep Learning - from Prototype to Production
Deep Multi-Task Learning - 3 Lessons Learned