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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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Less is More: simplifying our cloud setup through consolidation
Less is More: simplifying our cloud setup through consolidation
A tale of cloud consolidation: Simplifying our infrastructure and clarifying responsibilities.
Aurelien Beltrame
Nov 4
Scaling Success: dbt™ at BlaBlaCar
Scaling Success: dbt™ at BlaBlaCar
How We Took Back Control of Our Legacy Data Pipelines with dbt
Tushar Bhasin
Oct 18
BlaBlaCar's rulebook to automate decision-making
BlaBlaCar's rulebook to automate decision-making
Our vision on how to tackle automation projects in an efficient and impactful manner.
Raphaël Berly
Oct 1
Mastering Long Technical Migrations: Insider Tips for PMs
Mastering Long Technical Migrations: Insider Tips for PMs
Here’s my story and best tips to help you lead a successful tech migration project.
Jiankun Huangfu
Sep 26
Pragmatic Hexagonal Architecture
Pragmatic Hexagonal Architecture
Balancing Clean Code and Practical Flexibility in Software Design
Michaël Ayeng
Sep 5
Optimizing a Bus Network with Operations Research
Optimizing a Bus Network with Operations Research
Step into the world of mathematical optimization at BlaBlaCar with a case study on the bus allocation problem.
Slava Gorch
Aug 27
Engineers, BlaBlaCar is more of a tech company than you’d think!
Engineers, BlaBlaCar is more of a tech company than you’d think!
BlaBlaCar’s technical context from a newcomer’s perspective
Enzo Molion
Jul 9
How we onboard newcomers with tailor-made training
How we onboard newcomers with tailor-made training
Growing talent from within. Every quarter, our Foundation Engineers offer a full week of tailor-made training to new team members.
Maxime Fouilleul
Jul 2
Improving the Matching Performance for Carpooling
Improving the Matching Performance for Carpooling
Ensuring a fast and efficient server response to geospatial queries can be difficult; how can we improve and measure this performance?
Tim Gallois
Jun 11
5 ways to create Comfort Zones at the workplace
5 ways to create Comfort Zones at the workplace
Co-authors: Yannick Hoffsess & Maxime Fouilleul
Kineret Kimhi
Jun 7
Unexpected Tips for Data Managers
Unexpected Tips for Data Managers
Based on my podcast with Robin Conquet on DataGen, I reflected on three tips to share with fellow Data Managers. First, responsibilities…
Emmanuel Martin Chave
May 2
Warm up the relationship between Java and Kubernetes
Warm up the relationship between Java and Kubernetes
The BlaBlaCar backend infrastructure is fully running on Kubernetes on the Google Cloud Platform. During the last few years, this backend…
Tony Demol
Jan 12
BlaBlaCar’s Hiring Academy
BlaBlaCar’s Hiring Academy
At BlaBlaCar, we strive to grow and learn collectively as a team. In 2023, the Talent Acquisition team created and implemented a training…
Laetitia Melchior
Dec 13, 2023
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, 2023
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, 2023
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, 2023
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, 2023
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, 2023
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, 2023
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, 2023
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, 2023
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, 2023
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, 2023
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, 2023
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