Pinterest Engineering

Scalable and reliable data ingestion at Pinterest

Yu Yang | Pinterest engineer, Data

At Pinterest, we use data to gain insights to make decisions for everything, and ultimately improve the whole experience for Pinners. Every day we log over 100 terabytes of data. In…

Do you trust the crowd? 3 ways to improve crowdsourcing at your company

Jay Wang | Pinterest engineer, human computation

Crowdsourcing, or what we refer to as human computation, plays a large role at Pinterest. From measuring the relevance of search…

Recap: Pinterest engineering talks @ Functional Swift Conference

At Pinterest we use Swift extensively to build internal tools like Plank, an immutable model generator we open sourced, and scripts to support the development of our iOS platform. Recently, Rahul Malik and Brandon Kase…