by Nick Ruhl | Dec 3, 2020 | ENGINEERING BACKEND, LIFE AT PEX
Recently, the Infrastructure Team at Pex had the pleasure and challenge of shifting all of our deployments from Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to Microsoft Azure.Our services rely heavily on Apache Pulsar and we use the number of messages in various queues as the primary...
by Pex Team | Oct 30, 2020 | CULTURE, LIFE AT PEX
Oh, it’s dog-friendly too?! 80s arcade games. Kombucha taps. Fully stocked kitchen. These are the typical bells and whistles we’ve come to expect of tech startups that present as fun, friendly, and non-hierarchical. By the end of week two, however, you’ve already...
by Pex Team | Sep 29, 2020 | CAREER, LIFE AT PEX
The Pex hiring process So, you applied for a role at Pex (or you are thinking about it), but you want to know what you’re getting into. Don’t worry, you’re not alone. Our recruiting team often receives questions from candidates that are eager for...
by Pex Team | Aug 7, 2020 | ENGINEERING MACHINE LEARNING, LIFE AT PEX
There are many exciting problems that can be solved by training machine learning models on large, audio datasets – distinguishing speakers, identifying instruments in music, and translating speech from one language to another to name a few. The question is,...
by Pex Team | Aug 7, 2020 | CULTURE, LIFE AT PEX
“In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you. – Mortimer J. Adler Learning and continuous development are part of Pex’s fabric. Not surprisingly, a common way...
by Pex Team | Aug 7, 2020 | ENGINEERING DATA, LIFE AT PEX
How do we count distinct rolling 90 day active users in a data set of billions? At Pex, we actively monitor all visible content on our supported platforms – over 40 social and UGC sites – leading to the world’s largest video and audio database. Since we’re...
