Software engineering blogs

[Lyft]
Flyte Joins LF AI & Data
A little over a year ago on January 7th, 2020 Lyft open sourced and announced Flyte — its core platform for orchestrating Machine Learning and Data Processing Jobs. Today we are elated to share that Flyte is joining the Linux Foundation AI & Data LF AI&Data, as its 25th hosted project. 2020 has

[GitHub]
How we found and fixed a rare race condition in our session handling
On March 8, we shared that, out of an abundance of caution, we logged all users out of GitHub.com due to a rare security vulnerability. We believe that transparency is key in earning and keeping

[Docker]
Docker Community All Hands Recap
We are sharing a recap of last week’s second quarterly Community All-Hands and the feedback we got from the community. The Community All-Hands deepen our engagement with the Docker community and bring users, contributors and staff together on a quarterly basis. It is an opportunity for the

[Rust]
Building a shared vision for Async Rust
The Async Foundations Working Group believes Rust can become one of the most popular choices for building distributed systems, ranging from embedded devices to foundational cloud services. Whatever they're using it for, we want all developers to love using Async Rust. For that to happen, we need

[GIPHY]
GIPHY Text is Now Live in Our SDK and Chrome Extensions
GIPHY literally has a gazillion pieces of content indexed in its library. Just head over to the website GIPHY.com and type in your fav search terms to get a sense of the incredibly vast amount of results GIFs, Stickers, Clips, etc. that we surface. However, sometimes what you want a GIF to

[Google Research]
Massively Parallel Graph Computation: From Theory to Practice
Posted by Jakub Łącki and Vahab Mirrokni, Research Scientists, Google Research Graphs are useful theoretical representations of the connections between groups of entities, and have been used for a variety of purposes in data science, from ranking web pages by popularity and mapping out social

[Cloudflare]
The Teams Dashboard: The Design Story
Here is the story of how we took Cloudflare for Teams from initial concepts, to an MVP, to now a comprehensive security platform that secures networks, users, devices, and applications.

[Cloudflare]
A deep-dive into Cloudflare’s autonomous edge DDoS protection
Introducing our autonomous DDoS Distributed Denial of Service protection system, globally deployed to all of Cloudflare’s 200+ data centers, and is actively protecting all our customers against DDoS attacks across layers 3 to 7 in the OSI model without requiring any human intervention.

[HubSpot]
Inclusivity Is a Design Principle
Words matter, and how we use them matters. According to the Linguistic Society of America , inclusive language “acknowledges diversity, conveys respect to all people, is sensitive to differences, and promotes equal opportunities.” It makes concepts more understandable, copy more readable, and

[Discord]
Discord Welcomes Tomasz Marcinkowski as New CFO
We’re thrilled to announce that Tomasz Tom Marcinkowski has joined Discord as Chief Financial Officer. Tom will lead our financial operations to support Discord’s continued growth.2020 was a pivotal year for Discord — we reached over 140 million monthly active users and exceeded 100M in

[Discord]
Resources Against Hate and Discrimination Towards the AAPI Community
Over the last year, the AAPI Asian American Pacific Islander community has been experiencing an alarming increase of anti-Asian hate crimes throughout the United States, with a majority of them targeting the elderly. This has increased in recent weeks, with the latest taking the form of a

[Pinterest]
Faster Creator Content Distribution at Pinterest
Jiayi Lu | Software Engineer, Creator DistributionAt Pinterest, we are committed to building the best experience for creators to reach and inspire new audiences and for Pinners to easily discover the best ideas for them. We believe more diverse Pin formats and an efficient distribution system

[Android]
Android Dev Challenge Finale: Weather app
Posted by Jolanda Verhoef, Developer Relations Engineer Let your creativity shine in the final week of the #AndroidDevChallenge! Last week we asked you to be fast, but for this final week we ask you to bring your 'A' game. Here’s the challenge: Week #4: Weather app 🌤 Create a single-screen

[Android]
Android 12 Developer Preview 2
Posted by Dave Burke, VP of Engineering Last month we shared the first preview of Android 12, an early look at the next version of Android. Today we’re bringing you the next milestone build in this year’s release, with more new features and changes for you to try with your apps. Our program of

[.NET]
The path to .NET 5 and Blazor WebAssembly with some fun sprinkled in
With the recent release of .NET 5 at .NET Conf 2020, users saw first-hand how to take advantage of the latest web technology using .NET. One extremely interesting announcement was the new release of Blazor WebAssembly. Blazor lets you build interactive web UI wuth C# instead of JavaScript. The

[Kotlin]
Cash App Case Study
Cash App is the easiest way to send money, spend money, save money, and buy cryptocurrency. We believe in providing everyone with access to important financial services so they can fully participate in the economy. The app launched in 2013 as a simple peer-to-peer payment app with 4 mobile

[New York Times]
Meeting… Drue Thomas, Senior Product Designer 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 Product Designer

[Google Online Security]
Announcing the winners of the 2020 GCP VRP Prize
Posted by Harshvardhan Sharma, Information Security Engineer, Google We first announced the GCP VRP Prize in 2019 to encourage security researchers to focus on the security of Google Cloud Platform GCP, in turn helping us make GCP more secure for our users, customers, and the internet at large

[Deezer]
Women’s Voices — A Product Story
Women’s Voices — A Product StoryOn March 8th, we launched an in-app story to amplify women’s voices.There are Instagram, Snapchat and other social media stories, but what kind of story can Deezer have, you might ask?This is a story with a purpose to celebrate and advocate women behind music and

[Docker]
Docker and CNCF Join Forces for “Container Garage” Event Series
At Docker, we’re constantly trying to engage and connect with developer communities around the world to explore ways we can cross pollinate ideas, share, and learn from each other. Today, we’re thrilled to announce that Docker and the CNCF are joining forces to run a community-led event series