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Let AI Entertain You: Increasing User Engagement with Generative AI and Rejection Sampling
Let AI Entertain You: Increasing User Engagement with Generative AI and Rejection Sampling
Generative AI (Gen AI) has demonstrated proficiency in content generation but does not consistently guarantee user engagement, mainly for…
Jaewon Yang
Oct 16, 2023
From Pre-trained to Fine-tuned: Nextdoor’s Path to Effective Embedding Applications
From Pre-trained to Fine-tuned: Nextdoor’s Path to Effective Embedding Applications
Background
Karthik Jayasurya
Sep 7, 2023
Securing Diversity in Cybersecurity
Securing Diversity in Cybersecurity
At Nextdoor we build technology that empowers resilient, safe, and kind neighborhoods all over the world. Securing a product that empowers…
Kristen Beneduce
May 2, 2023
Catching Anomalies Early in Mobile App Releases
Catching Anomalies Early in Mobile App Releases
How Nextdoor catches mobile app release anomalies at 1% adoption
Walt Leung
Jan 11, 2023
Typeahead Search at Nextdoor
Typeahead Search at Nextdoor
Background
Jerry Tian
Jul 6, 2022
Modernizing Nextdoor Search Stack — Part 2
Modernizing Nextdoor Search Stack — Part 2
In our last blog post of the Modernizing Nextdoor Search Stack series, we explained the Query Understanding and the ML models that power…
Bojan Babic
May 20, 2022
Using predictive technology to foster constructive conversations
Using predictive technology to foster constructive conversations
Nextdoor’s purpose is to cultivate a kinder world where everyone has a neighborhood they can rely on. We want to give neighbors ways to…
Cathleen Li
May 3, 2022
Launch Control at Nextdoor
Launch Control at Nextdoor
How engineers configure and deploy A/B tests and feature flags
Luiz Scheidegger
Mar 15, 2022
Learn DevOps by Doing
Learn DevOps by Doing
A tricky problem and what you can learn from it
Slava Markeyev
Feb 23, 2022
Engineering Principles (v1) at Nextdoor
Engineering Principles (v1) at Nextdoor
At Nextdoor, the written version of these engineering principles is new; however, the principles themselves are not. These principles…
Antonio Silveira
Feb 2, 2022
Automated code generation from GraphQL operations
Automated code generation from GraphQL operations
In this article, we’ll walk through a step-by-step process to translate a GraphQL operation to Flow type definitions, using Babel.
Fravic
Jan 12, 2022
Nextdoor Notifications: How we use ML to keep neighbors informed
Nextdoor Notifications: How we use ML to keep neighbors informed
Introduction
Karthik Jayasurya
Dec 1, 2021
Modernizing Our Search Stack
Modernizing Our Search Stack
What are our Neighbors Searching For?
Bojan Babic
Nov 2, 2021
Running ML Inference Services in Shared Hosting Environments
Running ML Inference Services in Shared Hosting Environments
The CoreML team had the pleasure of presenting ‘Running ML Inference Services in Shared Hosting Environments’ at MLOps: Machine Learning in…
Danny Luo
Oct 29, 2021
Metablocks: Our Journey to an Agglomerated Navigation Logic
Metablocks: Our Journey to an Agglomerated Navigation Logic
In this piece, we will explain our journey through solving fragmented navigation logic across different platforms by developing a…
Myung Kim
Oct 19, 2021
Intro to Data Science & Analytics at Nextdoor
Intro to Data Science & Analytics at Nextdoor
What Is Data Science & Analytics at Nextdoor?
Carly Villareal
May 26, 2021
Our iOS CI/CD Journey At Nextdoor
Our iOS CI/CD Journey At Nextdoor
Two of the most useful tools for making software development run smoothly are CI & CD. Over the years our stack has evolved from a humble…
Su Khai Koh
Nov 17, 2020
Meet the Interns — Summer 2020
Meet the Interns — Summer 2020
This summer was unlike any other. With the pandemic, there was uncertainty about whether our internship program would be possible. After…
Gonzalo Maldonado
Sep 17, 2020
Sitevars¹ at Nextdoor — How engineers quickly push configuration changes in production
Sitevars¹ at Nextdoor — How engineers quickly push configuration changes in production
How Nextdoor Engineers built Sitevars, a system to push configuration changes to all our servers across multiple regions in seconds
Luiz Scheidegger
Apr 28, 2020
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