0:00 /0:08 1× PrizePicks is a skill-based fantasy platform where users build and submit picks against player and game outcomes, and right now is our busiest season of the year: NFL SZN. Every year before a major traffic event, like NFL kickoff or the Super Bowl, we
TL;DR At PrizePicks, model performance is a user experience problem. Every delay in training, scoring, or serving can affect how quickly we respond to new information and how snappy the app feels in the moments that matter. This article shows how we approach that problem: profile before optimizing, separate
The universal problem with test data PrizePicks is a skill-based fantasy platform where users build and submit picks against player and game outcomes. Like many fast-growing companies, our quality control struggled to keep pace with the evolving complexities of our product features. More specifically, our automated end-to-
Continuously shipping a mobile app is not the same as shipping a website. This is our system of keeping bad deployments from becoming crises, and why the native layer makes it challenging. TL;DR * Shipping a mobile app continuously is a different problem than the web. The store gate, the
TL;DR: * At PrizePicks, delivering a 6-star customer experience runs on data scattered across a dozen tools, and wrangling it is one of our biggest engineering challenges. Rigorous performance assessment and constant data collection are how we find experience bottlenecks and decide what to build next, but that signal