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BlaBlaCar is the world’s leading community-based travel app enabling 26 million members a year to carpool or travel by bus in 21 countries.
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From Flux v1 to Flux v2… Stairway to Heaven or Highway to Hell?
From Flux v1 to Flux v2… Stairway to Heaven or Highway to Hell?
Migrate from any v1 to a v2 is never a smooth process. But how tricky is it when it comes to Flux? Let’s discover it together!
Julien Haumont
Dec 6
How BlaBlaCar leverages machine learning to match passengers and drivers - Part 2
How BlaBlaCar leverages machine learning to match passengers and drivers - Part 2
The story of how Smart Selection evolved from a mere concept into an ML product that adds value to BlaBlaCar.
Fabio Cecchi
Oct 26
11 lessons learned managing a Data Platform team within a data mesh
11 lessons learned managing a Data Platform team within a data mesh
Introduction
Souhaib Guitouni
Oct 10
Controlling our Data Platform Costs at BlaBlaCar
Controlling our Data Platform Costs at BlaBlaCar
Tips and Feedback from Blablacar’s journey towards cutting costs in the data platform
Antoine Lefebvre
Sep 15
100% remote recruitment: How to handle it with success?
100% remote recruitment: How to handle it with success?
Remote recruitment has become a common practice for companies since the first lockdown. This was already partly implemented at BlaBlaCar…
Sandy Tanguy
Jul 21
Scaling Data Teams: 5 Learnings from BlaBlaCar
Scaling Data Teams: 5 Learnings from BlaBlaCar
Start simple, be pragmatic, mirror the business, create Chapters and invest in your platform.
Emmanuel Martin Chave
Jun 30
How we built our Machine Learning Pipeline to fight fraud at BlaBlaCar — Part 2
How we built our Machine Learning Pipeline to fight fraud at BlaBlaCar — Part 2
In this series of articles, we will share BlaBlaCar’s best practices in managing a strategic project involving machine learning.
Thomas Pocreau
Jun 27
Geography Zones for BlaBlaCar’s Bus Network
Geography Zones for BlaBlaCar’s Bus Network
How we used a mix of automation and manual input to build a geographic data referential
Justin Pyron
Jun 12
Using data to help me improve Engineering delivery
Using data to help me improve Engineering delivery
4 concrete tips on how to include more data in your daily routine.
Sigbjørn Dybdahl
Apr 21
How we used machine learning to fight fraud at BlaBlaCar — Part 1
How we used machine learning to fight fraud at BlaBlaCar — Part 1
The series of articles will be an example of how we applied the Google machine learning rule book in order to fight fraud on our platform.
Thomas Pocreau
Apr 6
Our candidate-focused talent journey
Our candidate-focused talent journey
How do we as a Talent Acquisition team at BlaBlaCar create a positive candidate experience while supporting our business growth?
Sabrina Angersbach
Apr 3
Automated profile picture moderation at BlaBlaCar using Deep Learning
Automated profile picture moderation at BlaBlaCar using Deep Learning
How we drastically reduced manual profile picture moderation at BlaBlaCar
Raphaël Berly
Mar 9
Growing with BlaBlaCar — Interview with Svitlana & Sarah
Growing with BlaBlaCar — Interview with Svitlana & Sarah
Today we get to hear from Sarah & Svitlana who both joined BlaBlaCar’s Community Relations team and have gone a long way since.
Victor Rubin
Mar 3
How BlaBlaCar leverages machine learning to match passengers and drivers
How BlaBlaCar leverages machine learning to match passengers and drivers
The story of how we smartly select search results to improve user experience at BlaBlaCar
Fabio Cecchi
Mar 1
Create your own path in our Community Relations team
Create your own path in our Community Relations team
Career development can look many different ways at BlaBlaCar. Today we get to know Nara and Clovis and learn about their journey.
Victor Rubin
Dec 16, 2022
Behind RISE: BlaBlaCar’s mentorship program for women
Behind RISE: BlaBlaCar’s mentorship program for women
An interview of Victoria Pinto-Mesías on how BlaBlaCar created its first-ever mentorship program dedicated to the development of women…
Victoria Pinto-Mesías
Dec 12, 2022
Starting a full-remote job as an Engineering Manager
Starting a full-remote job as an Engineering Manager
Learning to step in as a manager in a remote-first environment
Yannick Hoffsess
Nov 23, 2022
Embedded Insurance: how can you bring value to your members with products integrated into their…
Embedded Insurance: how can you bring value to your members with products integrated into their…
Discover how we provide Embedded Insurance to our members at BlaBlaCar!
Pierre Jean Hillion
Nov 18, 2022
How to make your Android app resilient to process death?
How to make your Android app resilient to process death?
Learn how the Android death process works and how to manage it in your application.
Patrick Brochado
Nov 3, 2022
Increase operational coverage with Skills Matrices
Increase operational coverage with Skills Matrices
Skills Matrix, how we use it to increase operational coverage and perform better as a team.
Maxime Fouilleul
Oct 28, 2022
Be Lean, Go Far: leveraging Kubernetes for an elastic right-sized platform
Be Lean, Go Far: leveraging Kubernetes for an elastic right-sized platform
The era of static provisioning is over, let’s find out which engineering practices BlaBlaCar implemented to build an elastic platform.
Sebastien DOIDO
Sep 22, 2022
Do’s and Don’ts of Data Mesh
Do’s and Don’ts of Data Mesh
Are you considering data-mesh your organisation? Here are some tips on how to do it right — and what to avoid at all costs .
Kineret Kimhi
Sep 5, 2022
Can You Prepare Enough For The War?
Can You Prepare Enough For The War?
How BlaBlaCar took on the challenge of the war in Ukraine: immediate actions and lessons learned.
Igor Ivashchenko
Sep 2, 2022
7 (+1) lessons I learned as a Product Manager at BlaBlaCar
7 (+1) lessons I learned as a Product Manager at BlaBlaCar
They made me a much better PM.
Emilie Ringwald
Jul 18, 2022
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