Software engineering blogs

[Semaphore CI Engineering]
What is a monorepo? (and Should You Use Them?)
Monorepos can foster rapid development workflows. In this post, we’ll examine if they are the right fit for you and your company. The post What is a monorepo? and Should You Use Them? appeared first on Semaphore.

[OLX]
Cassandra Compaction Trade Offs
Cassandra Compaction Trade-OffsBy Apache Software Foundation — https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/cassandra/logo/cassandra.svg, Apache License 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=25112706Cassandra at OLXAt OLX chat we need to save the user chats for a long time. Like Whatsapp we

[Airbnb]
Inside Connect: Supporting Apprentices as an Engineering Leader
The third of a three-part blog series on Connect, an apprenticeship opportunity for aspiring Airbnb software engineers.As an engineering leader with 15+ years of industry experience, I am currently head of engineering for the Marketing Technology Platform at Airbnb. Our goal is to build world-

[Android]
Boosting developer success on Google Play
Posted by Sameer Samat, VP, Product Management Helping developers build sustainable businesses is a core part of Google Play’s mission. We work with partners every day to understand the challenges they face and help them bring their innovative ideas to life. Getting a new app off the ground and

[Uber]
Uber’s Journey Toward Better Data Culture From First Principles
Data powers Uber Uber has revolutionized how the world moves by powering billions of rides and deliveries connecting millions of riders, businesses, restaurants, drivers, and couriers. At the heart of this massive transportation platform is Big Data and Data Science

[Spotify]
Happy Birthday, Backstage: Spotify’s Biggest Open Source Project Grows Up Fast
TLDR: As Backstage turns one, we’re doubling down on our commitment to the open source project and the community we’re building it with. From Hack Week hunch to CNCF Sandbox Last year, a small team of Spotifiers had a hunch about our homegrown developer portal: if Backstage could help our 1,600+

[Lyft]
ML Feature Serving Infrastructure at Lyft
Image Credit: PixabayBy Vinay Kakade and Shiraz ZamanIntroductionMachine Learning forms the backbone of the Lyft app. Some examples of ML at Lyft include deciding on the optimal way to match drivers and passengers, deciding how to price a ride, distributing coupons and incentives to riders and

[Google Research]
Contactless Sleep Sensing in Nest Hub
Posted by Michael Dixon, Software Engineer and Reena Singhal Lee, Product Manager, Google Health People often turn to technology to manage their health and wellbeing, whether it is to record their daily exercise, measure their heart rate, or increasingly, to understand their sleep patterns. Sleep

[GitHub]
Improving large monorepo performance on GitHub
Every day, GitHub serves the needs of over 56M developers, working on over 200M code repositories. All but a tiny fraction of those repositories are served with amazing performance, for customers from around the world.

[Docker]
Docker Series B: More Fuel To Help Dev Teams Get Ship Done
Today we’re excited and humbled to announce Docker’s Series B raise of $23 million to accelerate our mission of delivering tools development teams love to quickly take their ideas from code to cloud. The round was led by Tribe Capital with participation from our existing investors, Benchmark and

[Cloudflare]
Automatic Platform Optimization post-launch report
We explored almost 200 websites with the activated Automatic Platform Optimization feature in Chrome User Experience Report data. Automatic Platform Optimization consistently demonstrated better aggregate performance among sites we analyzed in TTFB, First Paint, FCP, and LCP metrics.

[.NET]
ML.NET and Model Builder March Updates
ML.NET is an open-source, cross-platform machine learning framework for .NET developers. It enables integrating machine learning into your .NET apps without requiring you to leave the .NET ecosystem or even have a background in ML or data science. We are excited to announce new versions of ML.NET

[Imgur]
Spotlight on an Awesome Imgurian: thefeckamisigningupwithfacebook
Amidst hundreds of thousands of images on Imgur, a few writers have found their niche creating long-form posts, covering everything from recipes, personal stories, and educational interest pieces. This Imgurian

[Docker]
Docker Compose: From Local to Amazon ECS
By using cloud platforms, we can take advantage of different resource configurations and compute capacities. However, deploying containerized applications on cloud platforms is proving to be quite challenging, especially for new users who have no expertise on how to use that platform. As each

[GitHub]
Highlights from Git 2.31
The open source Git project just released Git 2.31 with features and bug fixes from 85 contributors, 23 of them new. Last time we caught up with you, Git 2.29 had just been released. Two

[Soshace]
Managing Kubernetes using Terraform
Kubernetes has continued in its strive to influence the tech space with its flexibility and portability in container orchestration. And with its continuous strive, there has been an increasing need to connect, configure and manage Kubernetes with other tools and resources of your choice. This has

[Slack]
Migrating Millions of Concurrent Websockets to Envoy
Slack has a global customer base, with millions of simultaneously connected users at peak times. Most of the communication between users involves sending lots of tiny messages to each other. For much of Slack’s history, we’ve used HAProxy as a load balancer for all incoming traffic. Today, we’ll

[New York Times]
Meeting… Christina Malis, Director of Customer Care 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?Director, Customer Care. I

[Google Online Security]
Google, HTTPS, and device compatibility
Posted by Ryan Hurst, Product Management, Google Trust ServicesEncryption is a fundamental building block when you’re on a mission to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible with strong security and privacy. This is why a little over four years ago we created Google

[Cloudflare]
Enhancing privacy-focused Web Analytics to better meet your metrics needs
Today, we’re excited to announce the release of three of the most requested features: adding multiple websites to an account, supporting Single-page Applications SPA as well as showing Core Web Vitals in Web Analytics.