Building Thumbtack’s Data Infrastructure

By: Nate Kupp

Part 1: Organizing Chaos

Adopting Swift: Migrating to Frameworks on iOS

By: Felipe Cypriano

Building Thumbtack’s Data Infrastructure: Part II

By: Nate Kupp

Part II: How we run…

Building Our Own Push Notification Delivery Service

By: Amal Nanavati

When we first developed our mobile apps in 2014, we decided to use a third-party service to deliver push notifications. It was fast, easy and at the time we did not have enough…

A Data-Driven Approach to Improving our Customer-Professional Matching

By: Ben Anderson & Xin Liu

Introducing tackr: Thumbtack’s Customized R Package

By: Lucas Puente and Sam Finegold

How Thumbtack Engineering Built Its Model Serving System in Scala

By: Xin Liu

Fearless migrations to backend services

By: Jeremy Mikkola

Web applications usually start out as a single codebase. In time, that little monolith grows. Before you know it, the application, team, and business have all grown to the point that the not-so-little…

Migrating our Scala codebase to Spark 2

By: Nate Kupp

Introduction

The data infrastructure team at Thumbtack has just completed the process of migrating all of our production Spark jobs from Spark 1.6.1 to Spark 2.0.0. We deployed…