Building a Python monorepo for fast, reliable development

Suman Karumuri | Pinterest technical lead, Visibility & Ruth Grace Wong | Pinterest engineer, Core Site Reliability

More than 200 million people discover and do what they love on Pinterest every month. We…

Kotlin for grumpy Java developers

Sha Sha Chu | Android Platform tech lead, Core Experience

So you’re an Android developer. You’ve been writing Java code for years and your code is clean, testable and well-architected. Then Google announces official support for Kotlin at Google…

Using Kafka Streams API for predictive budgeting

Driving user growth with performance improvements

Sam Meder, Vadim Antonov & Jeff Chang | Pinterest engineers, Growth

In early 2015 Pinterest engineers ran an experiment that improved mobile web home landing page performance by 60 percent and mobile signup conversion…

Anything Java can do Kotlin can do better

Zach Westlake | Pinterest engineer, Core Experience

While there’s been a lot of buzz around Kotlin lately, you may still be asking yourself why you should actually use it. What does Kotlin do that Java doesn’t? It’s good to…

Introducing Texture, a new home for AsyncDisplayKit

Garrett Moon | Pinterest tech lead, iOS Open Source Frameworks

Over the last two years Pinterest has been the primary developer of AsyncDisplayKit, an iOS framework for smooth and responsive interfaces…

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…

Manas: A high performing customized search system

Containerization at Pinterest

Lida Li, Rodrigo Menezes & Yongwen Xu | Pinterest Engineers, Cloud Management Platform & SRE

Over the last year the cloud management platform and site reliability engineering teams at Pinterest have been focused on moving our workload from EC2…