Published in Lightricks Tech Blog·Mar 14Packaging Native Code with Prefab: A Solution for Imported Prebuilt BinariesBy: Nir Moshe — Introduction Since we started writing Android applications at Lightricks, we used a monorepo to store our projects. With a monorepo it’s very convenient to share both knowledge and code between teams, which increases the pace of development. …Prefab5 min readPrefab5 min read
Published in Lightricks Tech Blog·Feb 14How To Rewrite Your Top-Grossing App Without Going BankruptBy: Anass AIZurba — Lightricks entered the market in 2013 with the launch of the award-winning Facetune app, followed by Enlight in the same year. In 2014 Facetune for Android was created. …Rewriting12 min readRewriting12 min read
Published in Lightricks Tech Blog·Jan 176 Days, 5 Key Takeaways: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference 2022Nisan Chiprut — Computer Vision10 min readComputer Vision10 min read
Published in Lightricks Tech Blog·Dec 13, 2022Step by Step Guide: How to create a Dynamic Service Endpoint via K8S APIBy: Andrey Orlov — This article will help bring clarity to some internal components of the K8S cluster, demonstrating how to interact with them using command line tools. Redis is an open source in-memory key-value database (and more besides — you can find the details here.) …8 min read8 min read
Oct 11, 2022How We Boosted Video Processing Speed 5x by Optimizing GPU Usage in PythonBy: Nitsan Hasson Those of us in the ML fields are familiar with the difficulties of taking a cool algorithm and making it production ready. …Machine Learning7 min readMachine Learning7 min read
Aug 16, 2022AB testing Xcode build settingsby Ben Yohay — At Lightricks, our iOS developers are busy working on multiple apps. We wanted to see if we could reduce the average build time to boost our developers efficiency, both locally and in a CI environment. To achieve this, we first needed to gather information about build times. Then we used…Developer6 min readDeveloper6 min read
Jul 26, 2022How to Reduce GIF Size 10x by Playing to the Spec’s Hidden Strengthsby Efraim Globus — If you’re looking to reduce GIF size, this article will help. In this post, I provide an overview of how GIF encoding works and show how an improved encoder can help to produce more compact files, by carefully reading into the spec and only encoding the differences between frames. My…Optimization8 min readOptimization8 min read
Jul 19, 2022Accuracy is Not All You Needby Aharon Azulay — Any algorithm for images can work on videos, just run it frame by frame, right? Well, sort of. When we tried creating the best possible segmentation masks in videos we found that the temporal element was a lot more important than we realized. …Computer Vision6 min readComputer Vision6 min read
Jun 28, 2022Why are Computers Suddenly So Creative? Artificial Intelligence DemystifiedWritten by Naomi Ken Korem, edited by Harel Cain — Can machines attain human level cognition? Or solve tasks that require a high level understanding of concepts and their inter-relationships? Recent astounding results from OpenAI’s DALL-E 2 and Google’s Imagen are changing the landscape of AI — not just in the computing world, but across art, entertainment and social platforms…Deep Learning6 min readDeep Learning6 min read
Published in AWS Tip·Jun 21, 2022Converting a DynamoDB Single-Region Table to a Global Table with Zero Downtimeby Ohad Benita — The context Back in 2017, AWS announced the general availability of DynamoDB global tables. Four years later, CloudFormation support was added for creating and updating global tables using infrastructure as code standards. For users already using a single-region table (aws::dynamodb::table) who wish to migrate to a global table (aws::dynamodb::globaltable) there is no…AWS7 min readAWS7 min read
