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Grace Hopper Takeaways: Pipeline, Retention, and Diversity

A few weeks ago, I attended my first Grace Hopper Celebration as a technical speaker. There, I presented twice,...

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Large Scale Decision Forests: Lessons Learned

At Sift Science, we use a variety of popular machine learning models to detect fraud for our customers. However,...

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Turn Up the Bayes, Part 2

We really love tech talks.At Sift Science, sharing knowledge and facilitating great discussion are two of our...

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The Sass Mixins/Placeholders I Can’t Live Without for Responsive Web Design

Here at Sift Science, we just completed another big step in our ongoing marketing site redesign, overhauling the homepage...

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Decision Forests: Taking Our Machine Learning to the Next Level

We're adding random decision forests to our machine learning solution, so get ready for an 18% improvement...

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Turn Up The Bayes, Part 1

This week, we hosted the first session of our new summer speaking series (Turn Up The Bayes)....

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How We Rebuilt Our App, Part 2: From Rails + Marionette to React

In the first post of this series, we gave an overview of Sift Science’s architectural migration...

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Running ML Infrastructure on HBase

On May 7th, I presented at HBaseCon, demonstrating how Sift Science leverages HBase and its ecosystem in...

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d-Threeact: How the Sift Science Console Team Made d3 and React the Best of Friends

A little less than a year ago, the Sift Science Console Team decided to

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Best practices for building large React applications

Sift Science has been using React in production for almost a year now. In that time, we grew our...

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How we rebuilt our app on React and Dropwizard, Part 1

Two years ago, we publicly launched our first fraud product with the goal of making it easy...

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API Craft SF Meetup at Sift Science

Last Thursday, Sift Science was gracious enough to host API Craft San Francisco. API Craft...

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API Development at Sift Science

At Sift Science, APIs are incredibly important. We spend a lot of timeimproving upon our existing APIs and...

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Running ML Infrastructure on HBase

We recently hosted our first ever HBase meetup! This was a very exciting event for us...

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