Software engineering blogs

[Android]
An update on Android's audio latency
Posted by Don Turner - Android Developer Relations Engineer This article takes a look at what's changed in the Android ecosystem for audio developers recently, the audio latency of popular Android devices, and discusses Android's suitability for real-time audio apps. What's changed? Over the past

[Google Research]
PAIRED: A New Multi-agent Approach for Adversarial Environment Generation
Posted by Natasha Jaques, Google Research and Michael Dennis, UC Berkeley The effectiveness of any machine learning method is critically dependent on its training data. In the case of reinforcement learning RL, one can rely either on limited data collected by an agent interacting with the real

[Pinterest]
How Pinterest fights misinformation, hate speech, and self-harm content with machine learning
Vishwakarma Singh | Trust and Safety Machine Learning Lead & Dan Lee | Trust and Safety Data Scientist LeadPinterest is an inspiration network where people come for positivity and new ideas, and there’s nothing inspiring about harmful content. As a visual discovery engine with hundreds of

[HubSpot]
Event: Latest Developments: Dispatches From the HubSpot Product Team
Register for this upcoming event on FinTech, Data, and Security, run by HubSpot engineers. Every week at HubSpot, we put on an internal event called Tech Talk, where our engineers share all the latest about what they’ve been up to and their peers get a firsthand look at the future of the HubSpot

[Cloudflare]
The Teams Dashboard: Finding a Product Voice
Users love products whose voices they recognize. Here’s how we created a voice for the Teams Dashboard, and how we’re working to make our user’s experience more intentional and consistent.

[.NET]
Learn to build HTTP APIs with .NET
ASP.NET makes it easy to build HTTP services that reach a broad range of clients, including browsers and mobile devices. Whether you’re new to .NET or an old pro, we’ve got a lot of fresh videos, tutorials, and documentation to help you learn how to build great HTTP APIs. The post Learn to build

[.NET]
.NET Core 2.1 will reach End of Support on August 21, 2021
Updated 03/04/2021: added clarification regarding ASP.NET Core 2.1 support on .NET Framework. .NET Core 2.1 will be reaching end of support on August 21, 2021. After this date, Microsoft will no longer provide updates which includes security fixes or technical support for this version. The post

[Zendesk(old)]
Add Messaging to your React Native App
Written by Andrew Hughes, published by Zendesk Developershttps://medium.com/media/69162b776f5065e1448ca83551b79803/hrefAdd Messaging to your React Native App was originally published in Zendesk Developer Blog on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding

[Tumblr]
How Post Content is Stored on Tumblr
We’re currently rolling out an opt-in beta for a new post editor on web which will leverage the Neue Post Format behind the scenes. It’s been a very long time coming – work on the Neue Post Format began in 2015 and was originally codenamed “Poster Child”, and it was borne out of a lot of things

[Indeed]
Shifting Modes: Creating a Program to Support Sustained Resilience
Originally published on InfoQ. Imagine for a moment that you work at a company that continuously ships customer-facing software. Say that your organization has managed to do the impossible and stopped having any serious incidents — you’ve achieved 100% reliability. Your product is successful

[.NET]
.NET Interactive with SQL!| .NET Notebooks in Visual Studio Code
In our last post , we announced that you can create .NET Notebooks in Visual Code. Today we are announcing that .NET Interactive now ships with T-SQL support in addition to C#, F#, PowerShell, JavaScript, and HTML. The .NET Interactive team has collaborated with the Azure Data Studio team to

[New York Times]
How We Rearchitected Mobile A/B Testing at The New York Times
We use A/B tests to make decisions about the products and features we release, but our mobile test allocation wasn’t separating users properly and we had to figure out how to fix it.Illustration by Patrick KyleBy Julian Locke and Sameer MoreIn early 2020, the mobile engineering teams at The New

[New York Times]
Meeting… Natasha Dykes, Senior Software Engineer at The New York Times
Celebrating Women’s History MonthThis March, we are featuring colleagues from across The New York Times in a special Women’s History Month series of ‘Meeting’Illustration by Claire MerchlinskyWhat are your pronouns?She/HerWhat is your job title and what does it mean?I’m a Senior Software Engineer

[HubSpot]
HubSpot Customer Spotlight: Su Sanni, President, Technology Solutions, Allegiance Fundraising Group
Some of the best perspectives on HubSpot's product come from those who use it every day. In this interview series, we profile HubSpot partners, providers, and customers, and ask their thoughts on what our product team should keep in mind while solving for them, and where the future of the

[Deezer]
Private libraries in Android — how to manage them.
Private libraries in Android — how to manage them.This post is part of a series on private libraries:Part 1: Private libraries in Android — why you should consider itPart 2: Private libraries in Android — how to manage themIn the first part of the series, we talked about the benefits of private

[Cloudflare]
Conntrack turns a blind eye to dropped SYNs
We have been dealing with conntrack, the connection tracking layer in the Linux kernel, for years. And yet, despite the collected know-how, questions about its inner workings occasionally come up. When they do, it is hard to resist the temptation to go digging for answers.

[Soshace]
Handling GraphQL API Authentication using Auth0 with Hasura Actions
In this article, we’re going to demonstrate how we can set up Authentication/Authorization with Hasura and Auth0. First, we’ll set up the Auth0 application, API, and rules. The post Handling GraphQL API Authentication using Auth0 with Hasura Actions appeared first on Soshace.

[GitHub]
GitHub Availability Report: February 2021
Introduction In February, we experienced no incidents resulting in service downtime to our core services. This month’s GitHub Availability Report will provide initial details around an incident from March 1 that caused significant impact and

[Dropbox]
New Paper Endpoints Released in Preview
New endpoints are available to interact with Paper in the File System using the Dropbox API.