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Extracting Job Roles in Job Ads: A Journey with Generative AI🚀
Extracting Job Roles in Job Ads: A Journey with Generative AI🚀
In the dynamic landscape of job listings, we faced a significant challenge — the lack of clearly defined job roles within our jobs…
Mahnaz Namazi
Jan 18
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Live Coding Interviews in the Era of LLMs
Live Coding Interviews in the Era of LLMs
The introduction of ChatGPT, Copilot, Codex, and other tools makes it easier to code
JB Lorenzo
Oct 18, 2023
Machine Learning for Delivery Time Estimation
Machine Learning for Delivery Time Estimation
In today’s fast-paced digital marketplace, accurate delivery time estimation has become crucial in ensuring customer satisfaction and…
Enderson Santos
May 19, 2023
Why should you scale bottom-up in your organization?
Why should you scale bottom-up in your organization?
How teams’ interactions should impact the organizational structure
Vânia Santos
Jan 16, 2023
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Clean Architecture and MVVM on iOS
Clean Architecture and MVVM on iOS
When we develop software it is important to not only use design patterns, but also architectural patterns. There are many different…
Oleh Kudinov
Aug 21, 2019
Demystifying Istio Circuit Breaking
Demystifying Istio Circuit Breaking
At OLX Autos, we have started adopting Istio service mesh for our EKS cluster. There are a number of features we are excited to use —…
Vikas Kumar
Oct 12, 2020
Replicating MySQL tables on S3 as Parquet: DanaDB
Replicating MySQL tables on S3 as Parquet: DanaDB
At OLX big data team, we are responsible for maintaining data lake, which includes 300+ TBs of compressed data on S3. Big portion of these…
Shafi Rasulov
Nov 23, 2018
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OLX Group MasterClass Session — The importance of alignment and testing
OLX Group MasterClass Session — The importance of alignment and testing
In the development world, there are many ways to practice defensive programming. Two of these ways are internal alignment and writing…
Daniel Afonso
Nov 18, 2022
The Law of Diffusion of Innovations
The Law of Diffusion of Innovations
Understanding the power of a good communication strategy in driving people’s behaviour and commitment.
Vânia Santos
Jul 26, 2022
Learning-To-Rank: Sorting Search Results
Learning-To-Rank: Sorting Search Results
How Machine Learning brings buyers and sellers together on OLX
Ilia Ivanov
Jun 21, 2022
Scaling Android Apps with Gradle! (Having different Source Sets)- Part 2
Scaling Android Apps with Gradle! (Having different Source Sets)- Part 2
In continuation to Part 1 of the two-part series, this part focuses on configuring different source sets as per product flavors, build…
Sahil Jain
May 31, 2022
Scaling Android Apps using Gradle (BuildTypes, ProductFlavors, gradle.properties)- Part 1
Scaling Android Apps using Gradle (BuildTypes, ProductFlavors, gradle.properties)- Part 1
A walkthrough of how at OLX Autos we manage to scale the Android app for multiple markets by configuring the android builds through gradle.
Sahil Jain
May 31, 2022
OLX Women Series — Own your Own Career
OLX Women Series — Own your Own Career
The most successful people are those who take charge of their careers and don’t wait for their manager to tell them what to do instead of…
Leonor Pinto
May 18, 2022
How Montessori method can improve your Leadership style
How Montessori method can improve your Leadership style
These days, a work slack post related to an online Leadership event caught my attention. The event, named “What Leaders Can Learn From the…
Vânia Santos
Apr 7, 2022
#4 Session of MasterClass — Design, Leadership and Business impact
#4 Session of MasterClass — Design, Leadership and Business impact
There is no set path to becoming a Product Designer. Product design requires a diverse set of skills, ranging from user empathy to coding…
Leonor Pinto
Jan 17, 2022
OLX Women Series — a Journey to become an Engineering Manager
OLX Women Series — a Journey to become an Engineering Manager
There is no one-size-fits-all path to a career in technical leadership, whether you strategically positioned yourself for it or stumbled…
Leonor Pinto
Jan 5, 2022
Mentorship can change the trajectory of your tech career
Mentorship can change the trajectory of your tech career
A bit of history
Alessandra Velozo
Nov 10, 2021
Explainable AI at OLX: understanding models by understanding data
Explainable AI at OLX: understanding models by understanding data
The rapid evolution of the Explainable AI (XAI) topic has not only brought us many new ways to understand how machine learning models work…
Viacheslav Dubrov
Nov 8, 2021
Item2Vec: Neural Item Embeddings to enhance recommendations
Item2Vec: Neural Item Embeddings to enhance recommendations
How Item2Vec works and helps us to improve the user experience on OLX
Ilia Ivanov
Oct 25, 2021
Scaling Agile @ OLX Autos
Scaling Agile @ OLX Autos
Building a high quality product that is flexible and can react to market demand is important, but at OLX Autos delivering things in an…
Jatin Juneja
Sep 23, 2021
#3 Session of MasterClass — Introduction to Golang Interfaces and Dependency Inversion Principle
#3 Session of MasterClass — Introduction to Golang Interfaces and Dependency Inversion Principle
Dependency Inversion is the idea that high-level logic should not depend on its low-level implementations. In Go, interfaces enable us to…
Leonor Pinto
Sep 15, 2021
#2 Session of MasterClass — Accelerate: Faster, Stronger & Happier development
#2 Session of MasterClass — Accelerate: Faster, Stronger & Happier development
In development, you don’t have to choose between speed and quality — good IT practices give you both!
Leonor Pinto
Jul 9, 2021
#1 Session of MasterClass — Nexus DS a unified experience
#1 Session of MasterClass — Nexus DS a unified experience
Leonor Pinto
Jun 2, 2021
Handling App removal or rejection on PlayStore due to “Impersonation”
Handling App removal or rejection on PlayStore due to “Impersonation”
Get to know about “Impersonation”: one of the main reason for app rejection on PlayStore. Learn to Appeal Google and get your app…
Sahil Jain
May 31, 2021
Ready for some tech related meetups?
Ready for some tech related meetups?
Welcome our newly formed meetup group — Masterclass by OLX Group.
Leonor Pinto
May 31, 2021
JVM Profiling in Kubernetes with Java Flight Recorder
JVM Profiling in Kubernetes with Java Flight Recorder
A walkthrough of the approach followed in OLX Autos for JVM Profiling in a Kubernetes (K8S) Environment using Java Flight Recorder (JFR)
Abhinav Rohatgi
Apr 15, 2021
Cassandra Compaction Trade Offs
Cassandra Compaction Trade Offs
Cassandra at OLX
Satish Chandra
Mar 17, 2021
Load Shedding with NGINX using adaptive concurrency control — Part 2
Load Shedding with NGINX using adaptive concurrency control — Part 2
Author’s Note: This is a two-part series about how we implemented and operationalized load shedding in our services using adaptive…
Vikas Kumar
Feb 24, 2021
Load Shedding with NGINX using adaptive concurrency control — Part 1
Load Shedding with NGINX using adaptive concurrency control — Part 1
Author’s Note: This is a two-part series about how we implemented and operationalized load shedding in our services using adaptive…
Vikas Kumar
Feb 24, 2021
Designing a Custom Progress bar with timed breaks in Android
Designing a Custom Progress bar with timed breaks in Android
Introduction
Sarina Dhamija
Feb 15, 2021
AutoSuggest Retrieval & Ranking (Part 2)
AutoSuggest Retrieval & Ranking (Part 2)
We’ll be focusing on the algorithms or techniques that we used to convert the corpus into a full fledged autocomplete suggester.
Aakash Prakash
Dec 21, 2020
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