DevOps

Simplifying web deploys

Raúl Gutiérrez Segalés, Site Reliability Engineer, Infrastructure
Ron Viscuso, Software Engineer, Core Product…

Chef: New open source IT cookbooks for macOS

Erik Gomez | Pinterest engineer, IT Client Platform

Over the last year, Pinterest IT has been moving away from traditional device management frameworks to an almost completely open source model. Our team’s goal is to make…

Stealthy shipping with atomic deploys

Nick Taylor | Pinterest engineer, SRE

Every person sees each page of Pinterest differently, based on factors such as their interests and who they follow. Each pageload is computed anew by our back-end servers, with JavaScript and XHR…

Discover Pinterest: Cloud engineering

With more than 100 million monthly active Pinners around the world, 50 billion Pins and 150K requests per-second, reliable and secure cloud engineering is key to providing good user experiences across all our platforms (iOS, Android and web). We recently hosted a…

Open-sourcing KingPin, building blocks for scaling Pinterest

Shu Zhang | Pinterest engineer, Infrastructure

When we first started building Pinterest, we used Python as our development language, which helped us build quickly and reliably. Over the years we built…

Building Pinterest’s A/B testing platform

Shuo Xiang | Pinterest engineer, Data

As a data-driven company, we rely heavily on experiments to guide products and features. At any given time, we have around 1,000 experiments running, and we’re adding more every day. Because…