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Right-Sizing AWS RDS? Request Mirroring Load Test Come To Rescue

Right-Sizing AWS RDS? Request Mirroring Load Test Come To Rescue

We all know feel the pain when trying to choose the right instance size for AWS RDS (Amazon Relational Database Service) instance. There…
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Mengying Li
Optimizing Low Code in Retool to Empower Services Colleagues

Optimizing Low Code in Retool to Empower Services Colleagues

By Charlotte Evans, Platform Services Degree Specialist
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Coursera
Empowering Teammates and Thriving Remotely

Empowering Teammates and Thriving Remotely

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Caleb Habtegebriel
Creating an Engineering Vision

Creating an Engineering Vision

In this blog post, we share how we drafted a three-year engineering vision, one-year engineering OKRs and the process we used to get there.
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Mustafa Furniturewala
Remote Internship Survival Guide

Remote Internship Survival Guide

When I started my internship as a software engineer at Coursera amidst the pandemic this fall, I was excited to finally have a chance to…
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Nichalus Varela
Growing Coursera’s first team outside Silicon Valley

Growing Coursera’s first team outside Silicon Valley

First steps towards a distributed team
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Mustafa Furniturewala
Get to know Coursera Engineer Bryan Rivera

Get to know Coursera Engineer Bryan Rivera

Meet Bryan R., who cares about creating products that serve underrepresented communities. Bryan started as an intern at Coursera during a…
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Bryan Rivera
Regression Discontinuity: Understanding the Benefit of Subtitles on Coursera

Regression Discontinuity: Understanding the Benefit of Subtitles on Coursera

This is Part III of our Causal Impact @ Coursera series. (Part II is here)
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Vinod Bakthavachalam
Improving Site Performance With Tree Shaking

Improving Site Performance With Tree Shaking

Introduction to Tree Shaking
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David Le
[Life@Coursera]: Why I chose Coursera as my first engineering job out of college

[Life@Coursera]: Why I chose Coursera as my first engineering job out of college

How do you even begin to decide where you should work after graduation? Where, as in location? Company? Team?
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Cathy Chi
Engineering Onboarding Bootcamp@Coursera

Engineering Onboarding Bootcamp@Coursera

Building and launching Coursera’s first engineering onboarding bootcamp
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richa123
Instrumental Variables & Randomized Encouragement Trials: Driving Engagement of Learners

Instrumental Variables & Randomized Encouragement Trials: Driving Engagement of Learners

This is Part II of our Causal Impact @ Coursera series. (Part I is here)
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Vinod Bakthavachalam
Order from Chaos: Understanding Search Queries through Vectors

Order from Chaos: Understanding Search Queries through Vectors

The Query2Vec pipeline and a foray into word embeddings
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Myra Cheng
Evolving the Graph

Evolving the Graph

We’ve been using GraphQL at Coursera for over three years, and we’ve learned a lot of lessons along the way. Learn what stuck & what…
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jon wong
Improving End-to-End Testing at Coursera using Puppeteer and Jest

Improving End-to-End Testing at Coursera using Puppeteer and Jest

This post describes our approach to upgrading our end-to-end testing system.
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Billy Kirk
An engineer’s perspective on engineering and data science collaboration for data products

An engineer’s perspective on engineering and data science collaboration for data products

Three themes that have worked well for us at Coursera for data product development— from the perspective of an engineer.
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Chris Liu
Two Summers at Coursera

Two Summers at Coursera

This post was written by Alex Ozdemir in the fall of 2018.
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Coursera
Improving The Learner Experience With Real-Time Subscription Renewals

Improving The Learner Experience With Real-Time Subscription Renewals

Dalton is a software engineering intern on Coursera’s Growth Monetization team. He is from Toronto and studies Software Engineering at the…
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Dalton Sweeney

How Online Education Is Increasing Gender Diversity in STEM

By Emily Glassberg Sands, Head of Data Science at Coursera in collaboration with Alan Hickey and Vinod Bakthavachalam, Senior Data…
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Vinod Bakthavachalam
Controlled Regression: Quantifying the Impact of Course Quality on Learner Retention

Controlled Regression: Quantifying the Impact of Course Quality on Learner Retention

This is Part I of our Causal Impact @ Coursera series.
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Vinod Bakthavachalam
Webpack 3 to 4: Facing the known unknowns and unknown unknowns

Webpack 3 to 4: Facing the known unknowns and unknown unknowns

This post will sketch out what a Webpack 3 to 4 upgrade looks like in a large modern web application.
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Chris Liu
The Evolution of Coursera Search: Enabling Product Innovation Through Technical Innovation

The Evolution of Coursera Search: Enabling Product Innovation Through Technical Innovation

At Coursera, millions of learners use search to discover courses. For learners with a specific intent, we need relevant results. For…
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Chris Liu
Keeping students on-track

Keeping students on-track

How our algorithms identify at-risk students, powering automated and human interventions
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Alan Hickey
Data Driven Content Categorization

Data Driven Content Categorization

How Coursera generated course categories from thousands of courses using a data driven clustering approach.
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Chris Liu
The Power of Goals

The Power of Goals

How setting — and being reminded of — goals are moving the needle for learners
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Marianne Sorba
Deep learning to intervene where it counts

Deep learning to intervene where it counts

How we built a feedback loop to optimize learning nudges
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Marianne Sorba
Skills benchmarking

Skills benchmarking

How ML-powered skills insights are guiding talent strategy and development
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Vinod Bakthavachalam
Measuring outcomes of high schoolers taking Computer Science courses

Measuring outcomes of high schoolers taking Computer Science courses

A case study on using Coursera in the classroom
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Vinod Bakthavachalam
Building data services to bring education to millions, Part III

Building data services to bring education to millions, Part III

Piloting Self-Serve Analytics as a Service
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Ronak Shah
Using Flow Generics at Coursera

Using Flow Generics at Coursera

In popular programming languages like Java and C#, generics serve as one of the tools for creating reusable components. By using generics…
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Quang Tran
How our Skills Graph is helping learners find the right content to reach their goals

How our Skills Graph is helping learners find the right content to reach their goals

At Coursera, we use data to power our product and better serve our learners. One example is our Skills Graph —a series of algorithms…
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Emily Glassberg Sands
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