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Amazon S3

How Canva saves millions annually in Amazon S3 costs

Understanding our data and usage patterns was the real key.

Color Space

A journey through color space with FFmpeg

For those who want to understand what color spaces are, find out how to transform videos from one color space into another one, or read about how I almost went crazy trying to find out why videos generated with Canva look slightly off in terms of color.

Security

Discovering Headroll (CVE-2023–0704) in Chromium

Discovery of Headless Chromium security vulnerability, how it works, and mitigations that should be applied to similar configurations

Data-Driven Segmentation

Understanding a Diverse User Base with Frequency Segmentation at Scale

How we developed a bespoke frequency-recency segmentation to understand our users' diverse usage patterns.

Machine Learning

Deep Learning for Infinite (Multi-Lingual) Keywords

How we used a CLIP-inspired model to suggest keywords for template labeling in multiple languages.

Backend Engineering

From Zero to 50 Million Uploads per Day: Scaling Media at Canva

The evolution of media persistence during hypergrowth at Canva

Search and Relevance

Search Pipeline: Part II

More on how we are rebuilding Canva's search stack and pipeline.

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Stuart Cam

Search and Relevance

Search Pipeline: Part I

How we are rebuilding Canva's search stack and pipeline.

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Stuart Cam

Image Hashing

Simple, Fast, and Scalable Reverse Image Search Using Perceptual Hashes and DynamoDB

How we built our first iteration of content matching at Canva.

Christopher Bong

Quality Assurance

How We Used Data to Optimize Our Quality Assistance Model

From firefighting chaos to problem solving zen.

Zi Yang Pang