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SoundCloud demonstrates moving from manual to automated canary deployments within a continuous delivery pipeline, using automated verification, monitoring, and rollback safeguards to reduce MTTR and improve reliability.

A blogpost about implementing hands-off deployment using Canary at SoundCloud.

Analyzing the outcomes and performance of The International 2018 esports event.

Exploring the impact of curiosity-driven learning on a large scale

A practical guide to making Spark jobs readable by breaking complex data pipelines into composable functions that join tracks with artists and labels and apply rules, illustrated with tests and refactoring patterns.

A practical guide to creating readable Spark jobs by breaking complex pipelines into small, composable steps and applying rule-based decisions using functional programming in Scala.

Exploring the latest OpenAI Five benchmark results

Reflecting on the accomplishments of interns at the end of the season.

Improving the readability of Apache Spark jobs for efficient data processing at SoundCloud and other companies.

Exploring the intricacies of mastering dexterity in a digital landscape

Exploring variational option discovery algorithms for efficient decision-making in reinforcement learning

Reviving a troubled engineering team by building trust, aligning a shared vision, reducing tech debt, adopting automation, and practicing ruthless prioritization.