Software engineering blogs

[.NET]
Investigating a Linux CVE with .NET Images
We regularly get contacted for help in managing CVEs in Linux-based .NET images. In fact, we were contacted just this morning about CVE-2021-23840 and CVE-2021-23841. I investigated the CVE for that customer to help them understand their options. It occurred to me that this information would be

[Netflix]
Production Media Management: Transforming Media Workflows by leveraging the Cloud
Written by Anton Margoline, Avinash Dathathri, Devang Shah and Murthy Parthasarathi. Credit to Netflix Studio’s Product, Design, Content Hub Engineering teams along with all of the supporting partner and platform teams.In this post, we will share a behind-the-scenes look at how Netflix delivers

[Google Research]
LEAF: A Learnable Frontend for Audio Classification
Posted by Neil Zeghidour, Research Scientist, Google Research Developing machine learning ML models for audio understanding has seen tremendous progress over the past several years. Leveraging the ability to learn parameters from data, the field has progressively shifted from composite,

[New York Times]
Meeting… Carrie Price, Lead 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 am a Lead Software

[Android]
Creating custom Tiles on Wear OS by Google with the Jetpack Tiles library
Posted by Jolanda Verhoef, Developer Relations Engineer We introduced Tiles in 2019, and since then, Tiles have become one of the most helpful and useful features on Wear OS by Google smartwatches. They are fast to access, convenient, and designed to provide users with swipeable access to the

[Google Online Security]
A Spectre proof-of-concept for a Spectre-proof web
Posted by Stephen Röttger and Artur Janc, Information Security EngineersThree years ago, Spectre changed the way we think about security boundaries on the web. It quickly became clear that flaws in modern processors undermined the guarantees that web browsers could make about preventing data

[Cloudflare]
Lessons Learned from Scaling Up Cloudflare’s Anomaly Detection Platform
Anomaly Detection uses an algorithm called Histogram-Based Outlier Scoring HBOS to detect anomalous traffic in a scalable way. While HBOS is less precise than algorithms like kNN when it comes to local outliers, it is able to score global outliers quickly in linear time.

[Google Online Security]
#ShareTheMicInCyber: Brooke Pearson
Posted by Parisa Tabriz, Head of Chrome Product, Engineering and UX In an effort to showcase the breadth and depth of Black+ contributions to security and privacy fields, we’ve launched a profile series that aims to elevate and celebrate the Black+ voices in security and privacy we have here at

[Google Online Security]
Continuing to Raise the Bar for Verifiable Security on Pixel
Posted by Eugene Liderman, Android Security and Privacy TeamEvaluating the security of mobile devices is difficult, and a trusted way to validate a company’s claims is through independent, industry certifications. When it comes to smartphones one of the most rigorous end-to-end certifications is

[Docker]
Guest Post: Calling the Docker CLI from Python with Python-on-whales
At Docker, we are incredibly proud of our vibrant, diverse and creative community. From time to time, we feature cool contributions from the community on our blog to highlight some of the great work our community does. The following is a guest post by Docker community member Gabriel de Marmiesse

[Pinterest]
Pinterest Flink Deployment Framework
Rainie Li | Software Engineer, Stream Processing Platform TeamBackgroundAt Pinterest, stream processing allows us to unlock value from real time data for pinners and partners. The Stream Processing Platform team is working on building a reliable and scalable platform to support many critical

[HubSpot]
Mobile Rewrote the Rulebook for Software. B2B Is Still Catching Up.
Fourteen years ago, Steve Jobs stood onstage and introduced the iPhone. It wasn’t the first smartphone, but it was the start of the smartphone era. And now 14 years later, we can clearly see some of the effects of this announcement on the ways that we think about and use computers and software.

[.NET]
Blinking LEDs with Raspberry Pi
The Raspberry Pi is one of the world’s most successful hardware projects. A lot of people have one, but not everyone knows what to do with it. You can use it as a desktop computer or the brain of an electronic circuit. The post Blinking LEDs with Raspberry Pi appeared first on .NET Blog.

[Soundcloud]
Building a Healthy On-Call Culture
Paging Doctor Software In the past, on-call duty was often associated with doctors, but in recent years, it’s become common for software

[Ebay]
How Creating an Agile Code Base Helped eBay Pivot for Apple Silicon
eBay’s native code base has grown and evolved for over 13 years, but is still nimble enough to quickly incorporate the latest features into the app.

[Cloudflare]
ARMs Race: Ampere Altra takes on the AWS Graviton2
A comparison between the Ampere Altra and the AWS Graviton2, the two ARM Neoverse N1-based processors.

[New York Times]
Meeting… Alice Liang, Sr. Manager of Data & Insights 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?Senior Manager, Data &

[HubSpot]
Name Dropping: Darling Jimenez, President and Partner at Leading Results, Inc.
Name Dropping is a Q&A series that aims to elevate the stories of women and nonbinary people leading in the tech space. The idea came from Angela DeFranco, a VP of Product at HubSpot, who said one way to be better allies is to name drop more women and nonbinary people in discussions of

[Cloudflare]
About the March 8 & 9, 2021 Verkada camera hack
To be clear: this hack affected the cameras and nothing else. No customer data was accessed, no production systems, no databases, no encryption keys, nothing.

[Google Research]
A New Lens on Understanding Generalization in Deep Learning
Hanie Sedghi, Google Research and Preetum Nakkiran, Harvard University Understanding generalization is one of the fundamental unsolved problems in deep learning. Why does optimizing a model on a finite set of training data lead to good performance on a held-out test set? This problem has been