How we used a CLIP-inspired model to suggest keywords for template labeling in multiple languages — by Sachinthaka Abeywardana At Canva we have millions of pieces of content, across many languages to serve our over 100 million monthly active users around the world. In order for them to be surfaced during search, keywords are a necessity. It is common practice in most websites to include keywords…

The evolution of media persistence during hypergrowth at Canva — by Robert Sharp, Jacky Chen As a design tool, a huge part of Canva’s value proposition is our library of more than 100 million stock photos and graphics and the ability to upload your own. Canva launched in 2013 with a library of photos and graphics and the ability for…

More on how we are rebuilding Canva’s search stack and pipeline — by Stuart Cam In the first part of this blog post series, we discussed the challenges we faced with our current search architecture, the requirements needed for a new architecture, and the considerations to take into account in designing our new solution. …

How we are rebuilding Canva’s search stack and pipeline — by Stuart Cam This two-part blog post details the challenges we faced within the Search and Recommendations group in building a scalable search architecture. In part I, we’ll discuss the challenges, and in part II, we’ll break down the details of our search architecture, and how we take a platform-first…

How we built our first iteration of content matching at Canva — by Christopher Bong Canva hosts a huge collection of ever-growing, user media that needs to be stored and managed properly. The diversity of this media poses challenges around the moderation and reduction of unnecessary duplicate content. …

From firefighting chaos to problem solving zen — by Zi Yang Pang At Canva, our quality assistance model aims to drive quality by shifting the process left. …

It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble — well, sometimes it is — By Jonathon Belotti Canva is an online graphic design platform, providing design tools and access to a vast library of ingredients for its users to create content. Leveraging GPU-accelerated machine learning (ML) within our graphic design platform has allowed us to offer simple but powerful product features to users. …

Scaling pre-development, rollout, and post-production SEO testing at Canva — by Siddharth Salunke Search Engine Optimization (SEO) helps a website rank better in search results on search engines. SEO can also be considered as a set of best practices to ensure your web pages are positioned or ranked higher in organic search results. Search is the best possible way for…

Using a monorepo causes a lot of performance challenges for git. Here’s how we solve them at Canva — By Anh Le At Canva, we made the conscious decision to adopt the monorepo pattern with its benefits and drawbacks. Since the first commit in 2012, the repository has rapidly grown alongside the product in both size and traffic. Over the last 10 years, the code base has grown from…