We’re Hiring
Help us build our next project.
-We're on a mission to change the way the world reads. That's an ambitious task, and we need ambitious people to get us there. See what positions are available and start your next chapter today.
+We're on a mission to build the largest and most accessible library connecting storytellers with their audience. That's an ambitious task, and we need ambitious people to get us there. See what positions are available and start your next chapter today.
All Positions diff --git a/_posts/2018-01-05-neural-spelling-corrections.md b/_posts/2018-01-05-neural-spelling-corrections.md index 46205af..9bbbc99 100644 --- a/_posts/2018-01-05-neural-spelling-corrections.md +++ b/_posts/2018-01-05-neural-spelling-corrections.md @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ author: mattr tags: - seq2seq - data -team: Data Science +team: Applied Research --- Introduction diff --git a/_posts/2018-02-12-search-query-parsing.md b/_posts/2018-02-12-search-query-parsing.md index c3937e9..49e4498 100644 --- a/_posts/2018-02-12-search-query-parsing.md +++ b/_posts/2018-02-12-search-query-parsing.md @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ author: mattr tags: - search - data -team: Data Science +team: Applied Research --- Scribd has a variety of content to offer and connecting our users with their desired content is a crucial aspect of our product. One of the main ways that users find content on Scribd is through search, and in this post I want to delve into an analysis we did regarding parsing out valuable information from a user’s query in order to better serve them relevant results, and also learn more about what they are searching for. diff --git a/_posts/2018-03-20-scribds-ab-testing.md b/_posts/2018-03-20-scribds-ab-testing.md index 2b3e3ad..59a21d0 100644 --- a/_posts/2018-03-20-scribds-ab-testing.md +++ b/_posts/2018-03-20-scribds-ab-testing.md @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ author: dfeldman tags: - testing - data -team: Data Science +team: Applied Research --- What is A/B testing? diff --git a/_posts/2018-04-18-bandits-for-the-win.md b/_posts/2018-04-18-bandits-for-the-win.md index d0a0734..a70db49 100644 --- a/_posts/2018-04-18-bandits-for-the-win.md +++ b/_posts/2018-04-18-bandits-for-the-win.md @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ author: dfeldman tags: - testing - data -team: Data Science +team: Applied Research --- We love A/B testing at Scribd. What follows is a specific example to give you an inside look at the process from idea to implementation for an algorithm test. diff --git a/_posts/2018-05-31-non-random-seo-test.md b/_posts/2018-05-31-non-random-seo-test.md index b115427..262d008 100644 --- a/_posts/2018-05-31-non-random-seo-test.md +++ b/_posts/2018-05-31-non-random-seo-test.md @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ tags: - seo - testing - data -team: Data Science +team: Applied Research --- Months ago, your friends convinced you to sign up for a half marathon. With three weeks to go, you haven’t even started training. In a growing panic, you turn to the internet for answers. diff --git a/_posts/2019-02-07-calculating-customer-lifetime-revenue.md b/_posts/2019-02-07-calculating-customer-lifetime-revenue.md index cbb708a..d4c679e 100644 --- a/_posts/2019-02-07-calculating-customer-lifetime-revenue.md +++ b/_posts/2019-02-07-calculating-customer-lifetime-revenue.md @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ author: bclearly tags: - ltr - data -team: Data Science +team: Applied Research --- Why LTR? (Lifetime Revenue) diff --git a/_posts/2019-03-04-experiments-with-seq2seq.md b/_posts/2019-03-04-experiments-with-seq2seq.md index 8f3beac..ff10bb4 100644 --- a/_posts/2019-03-04-experiments-with-seq2seq.md +++ b/_posts/2019-03-04-experiments-with-seq2seq.md @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ tags: - machinelearning - seq2seq - data -team: Data Science +team: Applied Research --- How much data do you need to train a seq2seq model? Let’s say that you want to translate sentences from one language to another. You probably need a bigger dataset to translate longer sentences than if you wanted to translate shorter ones. How does the need for data grow as the sentence length increases? diff --git a/_posts/2020-04-29-monitoring-aws-with-panther.md b/_posts/2020-04-29-monitoring-aws-with-panther.md index 6866b4d..da5ceec 100644 --- a/_posts/2020-04-29-monitoring-aws-with-panther.md +++ b/_posts/2020-04-29-monitoring-aws-with-panther.md @@ -5,10 +5,13 @@ tags: - monitoring - aws - featured +- archived team: Security Engineering author: paha --- +***NOTE***: *Scribd’s security infrastructure has since evolved away from using Panther* + Before widespread cloud usage, it was uncommon for one person to be present for the entire datacenter development lifecycle. Very few people knew how to design and build a datacenter from scratch while ensuring appropriate security configuration settings were set, on top of rigging up monitoring. It was even more uncommon for non-sysadmins to have any involvement in data center infrastructure construction or ongoing refinement. The cloud is very different. It only takes seconds to create an entire infrastructure from a template. And even developers are doing it! The monitoring challenges for such a scenario are significant. There aren't necessarily "more" monitoring data points, but the speed with which infrastructure can be created tends to result in infrastructure getting way out over its skis with respect to monitoring. Furthermore, since many barriers to entry for doing stupid things have been lowered to the point of non-existence, monitoring is the last great hope of maintaining control over a cloud environment. While access controls can still provide some guardrails, the flexibility that all engineers need to do their jobs requires that they have the ability to do "dangerous" things that they've never had to do before. The true definition of "full stack" has expanded. diff --git a/_posts/2021-07-08-automate-databricks-with-terraform.md b/_posts/2021-07-08-automate-databricks-with-terraform.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f995b0c --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/2021-07-08-automate-databricks-with-terraform.md @@ -0,0 +1,51 @@ +--- +layout: post +title: "Automating Databricks with Terraform" +team: Core Platform +author: rtyler +tags: +- databricks +- terraform +- featured +--- + +The long term success of our data platform relies on putting tools into the +hands of developers and data scientists to “choose their own adventure”. A big +part of that story has been [Databricks](https://databricks.com) which we +recently integrated with [Terraform](https://terraform.io) to make it easy to +scale a top-notch developer experience. At the 2021 Data and AI Summit, Core +Platform infrastructure engineer [Hamilton +Hord](https://github.com/HamiltonHord) and Databricks engineer [Serge +Smertin](https://github.com/nfx) presented on the Databricks terraform provider +and how it's been used by Scribd. + +In the session embedded below, they share the details on the [Databricks (Labs) +Terraform +integration](https://github.com/databrickslabs/terraform-provider-databricks) +and how it can automate literally every aspect required for a production-grade +platform: data security, permissions, continuous deployment and so on. They +also discuss the ways in which our Core Platform team enables internal +customers without acting as gatekeepers for data platform changes. Just about +anything they might need in Databricks is a pull request away! + +
+ 
+ 
+ 
+ 
+ 
+ 
+ 
+ 
+ 
+ 
+ 
+ 
+ 
+ 
+ 
+ 
+ 
+
-
Help us change the way the world reads.
+Help us build the largest and most accessible library connecting storytellers with their audience.
Our readers are on a mission to become their best selves, and so are we. We’re not afraid to take risks because we know that — win or lose — we’ll learn from them.
If you’re a talented team player and want to work somewhere where your input matters, we’d love to talk with you.
@@ -159,14 +159,14 @@