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  • Announcing our new engineering blog

    Announcing our new engineering blog

    Canva engineering blog is moving to its new home.
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    Canva Engineering
    May 3, 2023
    A Journey through Color Space with FFmpeg

    A Journey through Color Space with FFmpeg

    For those who want to understand color spaces, transform videos from one color space to another, or read how I almost went crazy working…
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    Canva Engineering
    Apr 16, 2023
    Discovering Headroll (CVE-2023–0704) in Chromium

    Discovering Headroll (CVE-2023–0704) in Chromium

    Discovery of Headless Chromium security vulnerability, how it works, and mitigations that should be applied to similar configurations
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    Canva Engineering
    Apr 5, 2023
    Understanding a Diverse User Base with Frequency Segmentation at Scale

    Understanding a Diverse User Base with Frequency Segmentation at Scale

    How we developed a bespoke frequency-recency segmentation to understand our users’ diverse usage patterns
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    Canva Engineering
    Mar 15, 2023
    Deep Learning for Infinite (Multi-Lingual) Keywords

    Deep Learning for Infinite (Multi-Lingual) Keywords

    How we used a CLIP-inspired model to suggest keywords for template labeling in multiple languages
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    Canva Engineering
    Jan 24, 2023
    From Zero to 50 Million Uploads per Day: Scaling Media at Canva

    From Zero to 50 Million Uploads per Day: Scaling Media at Canva

    The evolution of media persistence during hypergrowth at Canva
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    Canva Engineering
    Nov 29, 2022
    Search Pipeline: Part II

    Search Pipeline: Part II

    More on how we are rebuilding Canva’s search stack and pipeline
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    Canva Engineering
    Nov 16, 2022
    Search Pipeline: Part I

    Search Pipeline: Part I

    How we are rebuilding Canva’s search stack and pipeline
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    Canva Engineering
    Nov 1, 2022
    Simple, Fast, and Scalable Reverse Image Search Using Perceptual Hashes and DynamoDB

    Simple, Fast, and Scalable Reverse Image Search Using Perceptual Hashes and DynamoDB

    How we built our first iteration of content matching at Canva
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    Canva Engineering
    Oct 16, 2022
    How We Used Data to Optimize Our Quality Assistance Model

    How We Used Data to Optimize Our Quality Assistance Model

    From firefighting chaos to problem solving zen
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    Canva Engineering
    Aug 28, 2022
    Supporting GPU-accelerated Machine Learning with Kubernetes and Nix

    Supporting GPU-accelerated Machine Learning with Kubernetes and Nix

    It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble — well, sometimes it is
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    Canva Engineering
    Jul 4, 2022
    Testing Search Engine Optimization Scalably without Breaking a Sweat

    Testing Search Engine Optimization Scalably without Breaking a Sweat

    Scaling pre-development, rollout, and post-production SEO testing at Canva
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    Canva Engineering
    Jun 20, 2022
    We Put Half a Million files in One git Repository, Here’s What We Learned

    We Put Half a Million files in One git Repository, Here’s What We Learned

    Using a monorepo causes a lot of performance challenges for git. Here’s how we solve them at Canva
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    Canva Engineering
    Jun 15, 2022
    Service-aligned Data Platform Architecture

    Service-aligned Data Platform Architecture

    How the data analytics platform team scaled data ingestion from various services at Canva
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    Canva Engineering
    Jun 8, 2022
    CSS: Absolutely positioning things relatively

    CSS: Absolutely positioning things relatively

    Using CSS grid to render complex webpages responsively
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    Canva Engineering
    May 24, 2022
    Infrastructure is Distribution

    Infrastructure is Distribution

    How we position Infrastructure Engineering as a value-add
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    Canva Engineering
    Mar 14, 2022
    Speeding up UI tests with CodeceptJS and Playwright

    Speeding up UI tests with CodeceptJS and Playwright

    Lessons learned from migrating 1000+ browser-functional tests from Chimp, WebdriverIO, and Saucelabs to CodeceptJS and Playwright
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    Canva Engineering
    Mar 3, 2022
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