Software engineering blogs

[Docker]
Compiling Containers – Dockerfiles, LLVM and BuildKit
Today we’re featuring a blog from Adam Gordon Bell at Earthly who writes about how BuildKit, a technology developed by Docker and the community, works and how to write a simple frontend. Earthly uses BuildKit in their product. Introduction How are containers made? Usually, from a series of

[Kotlin]
ki: The Next Interactive Shell for Kotlin
There are several options to run Kotlin interactively: kotlinc and Kotlin REPL read-evaluate-print loop in IntelliJ IDEA. Neither is ideal. kotlinc does not have autocomplete or syntax highlighting. Kotlin REPL is very powerful, but it forces you to open IntelliJ IDEA, which is not always

[New York Times]
Meeting… Vanessa Jiménez, Associate 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?Associate Software

[Discord]
Captivate Your Community with Stage Channels
Within the last year, more people have started using Discord — just watch our “Closing the lid on 2020” video to see just how many for yourself. With more people using Discord, features such as Voice channels started being used in more unique ways than ever before. Music festivals moved from

[Airbnb]
How We Enable Airbnb Team Members to Code Like a Mobile Engineer
Our peer-to-peer learning program that’s accelerating the growth of mobile engineeringIntroAs part of the TechEd team, our team’s goal is to enable our technical talent through continuous learning programs. One of the most common programs we work on is new employee onboarding for Engineering and

[Cloudflare]
Durable Objects, now in Open Beta
As of today, Durable Objects beta access is available to anyone with a Cloudflare Workers® subscription.

[Pinterest]
Detecting Image Similarity in (Near) Real-time Using Apache Flink
Shaji Chennan Kunnummel| Software Engineer, Content QualityIaroslav Tymchenko| Software Engineer, Content QualityPinterest is a visual platform at its core, so the need to understand and act on images is paramount. A couple of years ago, the Content Quality team designed and implemented our own

[New York Times]
Meeting… Alexandra Shaheen, Program Manager 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 program manager who

[Lyft]
Running Atlantis at Lyft
By: Nish Krishnan and Sarvar MuminovIntroductionFor the past couple of years, Terraform has been gaining traction as an easy-to-use, well-supported and flexible provisioning tool of choice in the industry and as such, has also been gaining increasing popularity within Lyft. While we initially

[Docker]
A Birthday Challenge as Docker Turns 8
Time flies. Eight years ago Docker was introduced to the world and forever changed the way applications are developed. We have enjoyed watching developers from all walks of life and from every corner of the globe bring their ideas to life using our technology. As is our tradition in the Docker

[Spotify]
David Riordan: Product Manager
5:00 am My days begin with an early morning wake-up call from Zev – he comes through at around 5am and we get a couple of dedicated hours of playtime before the rest of the world gets up. It’s fun – this morning, we baked oatmeal cookies. Then once my wife and I are ready, we

[Pinterest]
Open sourcing Querybook, Pinterest’s collaborative big data hub
A collaborative and efficient big data solution for an increasingly remote-working world.Charlie Gu | Tech Lead, Analytics Platform, Lena Ryoo | Software Engineer, Analytics Platform, and Justin Mejorada-Pier | Engineering Manager, Analytics PlatformWith more than 300 billion Pins, Pinterest is

[OpenDNS]
Cisco Umbrella unlocks the power of SASE with new security capabilities
Secure access anytime, anywhere After the massive shift to remote work, more organizations are moving to a model where networking and security converge together in the cloud. Gartner coined the term secure access service edge SASE to describe this concept. Today, we announced how we’re

[HubSpot]
Our Platform Ecosystem Is Becoming A Platform Economy
Platform companies like Facebook and Shopify are the product of fascinating evolutionary stories. Mark Zuckerberg wasn't thinking of AR/VR when he set up Facebook in his dorm room. He started with a simple directory to find college students on campus. Toby Lutke probably didn't ever imagine

[Evernote]
See How the New Evernote is Getting Better Every Day
Since launching our new apps last year, we’ve been updating them regularly with new features, fixes, and improvements. Here are a few of the recent changes. The post See How the New Evernote is Getting Better Every Day appeared first on evernote.com | Blog.

[GitHub]
GitHub Desktop now supports cherry-picking
GitHub Desktop aims to provide an intuitive way for users to complete everyday Git and GitHub workflows. One of our most requested features from the past year is cherry-picking, and we’re excited to release it

[Cloudflare]
End User Security: Account Takeover Protections with Cloudflare
End-user account security is always a top priority, but a hard problem to solve. In this post, we provide a summary of all the Cloudflare features that can help.

[Cloudflare]
Inside Cloudflare: Preventing Account Takeovers
Throughout the day, Cloudflare has published blog posts on products created to secure our customers from credential stuffing bots, detect users with compromised credentials, and block users from proxy services. But what do we do inside Cloudflare to prevent account takeovers on our own applications?

[Cloudflare]
Build Zero Trust rules with managed devices
Starting today, your team can use Cloudflare Access to build rules that only allow users to connect to applications from a device that your enterprise manages.

[Cloudflare]
Cloudflare’s WAF is recognized as customers’ choice for 2021
Cloudflare has been recognised as Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice for WAF vendor in 2021 by Gartner.