Software engineering blogs

[Google Online Security]
Launching OSV - Better vulnerability triage for open source
Posted by Oliver Chang and Kim Lewandowski, Google Security TeamWe are excited to launch OSV Open Source Vulnerabilities, our first step towards improving vulnerability triage for developers and consumers of open source software. The goal of OSV is to provide precise data on where a

[Facebook]
Open-sourcing Thrift for Haskell
What it is: Thrift is a serialization and remote procedure call RPC framework used for cross-service communication. Most services at Facebook communicate via Thrift because it provides a simple, language-agnostic protocol for communicating with structured data. Thrift can already be used in

[Soshace]
Nodejs Lesson 16: Internals of Nodejs: Event Loop
This lesson will continue the last lesson where we learned how the LibUV library works internally. In this lesson, we will learn about Event Loop and understand various terms like call stack, callback queue, etc. Let's start. The post Nodejs Lesson 16: Internals of Nodejs: Event Loop appeared

[Google Research]
Machine Learning for Computer Architecture
Posted by Amir Yazdanbakhsh, Research Scientist, Google Research One of the key contributors to recent machine learning ML advancements is the development of custom accelerators, such as Google TPUs and Edge TPUs, which significantly increase available compute power unlocking various

[Google Online Security]
Vulnerability Reward Program: 2020 Year in Review
Posted by Anna Hupa, Senior Strategist, Vulnerability Rewards TeamDespite the challenges of this unprecedented year, our vulnerability researchers have achieved more than ever before, partnering with our Vulnerability Reward Programs VRPs to protect Google’s users by discovering security and

[GitHub]
GitHub reduces Marketplace transaction fees, revamps Technology Partner Program
At GitHub, our community is at the heart of everything we do. We want to make it easier to build the things you love, with the tools you prefer to use—which is why we’re committed

[Just Eat]
App launching: OperationQueue to the rescue
The challenge: MAD Massive App Delegate Modern apps are complex, the iOS community has come up with a few architectural patterns to manage such complexity. Nonetheless, there is a step in the apps lifecycle where this complexity has not yet been tamed: the app launch. It’s quite common to find

[New York Times]
Meeting… Angelica Hill, Associate Product Manager at The New York Times
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[Docker Engineering]
Donating Docker Distribution to the CNCF
We are happy to announce that Docker has contributed Docker Distribution to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation CNCF. Docker is committed to the Open Source community and open standards for many of our projects, and this move will ensure Docker Distribution has a broad group maintaining what

[Kotlin]
The JVM Backend Is in Beta: Let’s Make It Stable Together
We’ll make the new backend Stable soon, so we need each of you to adopt it, let’s see how to do it. We have been working to implement a new JVM IR backend as part of our ongoing project to rewrite the whole compiler. This new compiler will boost performance both for Kotlin users and

[Kotlin]
New Language Features Preview in Kotlin 1.4.30
We’re planning to add new language features in Kotlin 1.5, and you can already try them out in Kotlin 1.4.30: Stabilization of inline value classes Experimental support for JVM records Experimental support for sealed interfaces and other improvements for sealed classes To try these new features,

[Kotlin]
1.4.30 Is Released With a New JVM Backend and Language and Multiplatform Features
Kotlin 1.4.30 is now available. This is the last 1.4 incremental release, so we have lots of new experimental features that we plan to make stable in 1.5.0. We would really appreciate it if you would try them and share your feedback with us. We hope you enjoy testing out all these new updates,

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[Soshace]
Email Support with Flask
This article is aimed at developers who are interested in implementing email support with Flask. In the following example, I will start with an overview of the Flask-Mail package followed by the code that explains to integrate email support with the Flask Web Application. The post Email Support

[Soshace]
Nodejs Lesson 15: Internals of Nodejs: LibUV
Hello everyone, today we are going to talk about the internals of Nodejs. This article will guide how node js works and how it can handle async tasks. What will happen if ten requests come at once? Will it handle one request and discard the other 9? or will it create a queue and serve each one by

[Mozilla Automation Team]
Making Big Sur and pyenv play nicely
Soon after Big Sur came out, I received my new work laptop. I decided to upgrade to it. Unfortunately, I quickly discovered that the Python set up needed for Sentry required some changes. Since it took me a bit of time to figure it out I decided to document it for anyone trying to solve the same

[Google Research]
Evaluating Design Trade-offs in Visual Model-Based Reinforcement Learning
Posted by Mohammad Babaeizadeh, Research Engineer and Dumitru Erhan, Research Scientist, Google Research Model-free reinforcement learning has been successfully demonstrated across a range of domains, including robotics, control, playing games and autonomous vehicles. These systems learn by

[GitHub]
Deployment reliability at GitHub
Last week, we described how we improved the deployment experience for github.com. When we describe deployments at GitHub, the deployment experience is an important part of what it takes to ship applications to production, especially at GitHub's scale, but there is more to it: the actual

[Lyft]
How We Foster Mask Wearing With Our Health Safety Policy
In June, we introduced our Health Safety program to set a policy that reinforced public health best practices. We continue to do more work in this area to help keep our community safe and fight COVID-19. In this post, we’d like to share with you how we have approached maximizing compliance on our

[Imgur]
A Day in the Life – January 25 – 27 2021
Last week we wrapped up A Day in the Life, which saw Imgurians from every walk of life share a unique perspective on their daily lives, allowing the rest of