[Google Research]
End-to-End, Transferable Deep RL for Graph Optimization
Posted by Yanqi Zhou and Sudip Roy, Research Scientists, Google Research An increasing number of applications are driven by large and complex neural networks trained on diverse sets of accelerators. This process is facilitated by ML compilers that map high-level computational graphs to low-level,

[Medium]
Rex: Medium’s Go Recommendation Microservice
Rex: Medium’s Go Recommendations MicroserviceEditor’s note: This blog post was originally written in early 2019. It gives a great overview of why we built Rex and how it initially worked, but a lot has changed since then. Look for future stories on how Rex has evolved over time.Photo: Fausto

[Lyft]
Pulse, Stats APIs from Envoy Mobile
Introducing Pulse: Envoy Mobile’s stats libraryEarly this year, we published a deep dive after the v0.2 release of Envoy Mobile. A lot has happened since then: Envoy Mobile is now enabled in the production Lyft apps and the open source project recently joined the CNCF. Today, we are excited to

[New York Times]
To Serve Better Ads, We Built Our Own Data Program
The New York Times launched an advertising data program for our direct-sold ads business that uses our own data and data science techniques.By Pranay PrabhatIllustration by Shuhua XiongWhen you browse the internet, the majority of the ads that you see are served by one or more ad technology

[HubSpot]
HubSpot Partner Spotlight: Resa Gooding, HubSpot Certified Trainer & Demand Generation Strategist, Cacao Media
Some of the best perspectives on HubSpot's product come from those who use it every day. In this new interview series, we profile HubSpot partners 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 industry lies.

[Cloudflare]
Computing Euclidean distance on 144 dimensions
Last year we deployed a CSAM image scanning tool. This is so cool! Image processing is always hard, and deploying a real image identification system at a Cloudflare scale is no small achievement! But we hit a problem - the matching algorithm was too slow for our needs.

[Uber]
Uber’s Real-Time Push Platform
Uber builds multi-sided marketplaces handling millions of trips every day across the globe. We strive to build real-time experiences for all our users. The nature of real time marketplaces make them very lively. Over the course of a trip, there

[Docker Engineering]
🧪 Docker Hub Experimental CLI tool
We are excited to let you know that we have released a new experimental tool. We would love to get your feedback on it. Today we have released an experimental Docker Hub CLI tool, the hub-tool. The new Hub CLI tool lets you explore, inspect and manage your content on Docker Hub as well as

[Discord]
Resources for Navigating Through Seasonal Depression
In this new world where we’re all stuck inside most of the day, this upcoming winter will be exceptionally tough. Travel you were excited for has been postponed to next year, long-standing family traditions may be canceled, and the act of hanging out with your friends has likely shifted from

[Netflix]
Mythbusting the Analytics Journey
Part of our series on who works in Analytics at Netflix — and what the role entailsby Alex DiamondThis Q&A aims to mythbust some common misconceptions about succeeding in analytics at a big tech company.This isn’t your typical recruiting story. I wasn’t actively looking for a new job and Netflix

[Docker]
WSL 2 GPU Support is Here
At Microsoft Build in the first half of the year, Microsoft demonstrated some awesome new capabilities and improvements that were coming to Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 including the ability to share the host machine’s GPU with WSL 2 processes. Then in June Craig Loewen from Microsoft announced

[Discord]
Building open-source design tools to improve Discord’s design workflow.
Building open-source design tools to improve Discord’s design workflowWith the release of the Figma plugin API last year, the design team at Discord saw an exciting opportunity.Around the same time as the Figma plugin beta, we were working hard on improving the accessibility of our dark and light

[Facebook]
A smaller, faster video calling library for our apps
We are rolling out a new video calling library to all the relevant products across our apps and services, including Instagram, Messenger, Portal, Workplace chat, etc. To create a library generic enough to support all these different use cases, we needed to rewrite our existing library from

[Netflix]
Optimizing data warehouse storage
By Anupom SyamBackgroundAt Netflix, our current data warehouse contains hundreds of Petabytes of data stored in AWS S3, and each day we ingest and create additional Petabytes. At this scale, we can gain a significant amount of performance and cost benefits by optimizing the storage layout

[New York Times]
A Year in Illustration
Reflecting on a year like no other, we chose five memorable illustrations to highlight from 2020.By Jason FujikuniAs the art director for NYT Open, I have the privilege of working with artists and designers from all over the world to illustrate for The New York Times. Every piece that is

[Uber]
Disaster Recovery for Multi-Region Kafka at Uber
Apache Kafka at Uber Uber has one of the largest deployments of Apache Kafka in the world, processing trillions of messages and multiple petabytes of data per day. As Figure 1 shows, today we position Apache Kafka as a cornerstone

[React]
Introducing Zero-Bundle-Size React Server Components
2020 has been a long year. As it comes to an end we wanted to share a special Holiday Update on our research into zero-bundle-size React Server Components. To introduce React Server Components, we have prepared a talk and a demo. If you want, you can check them out during the holidays, or later

[Airbnb]
Introducing Showkase: A Library to Organize, Discover, and Visualize Your Jetpack Compose Elements
Over the last few years, Android™ development has gone through significant changes in how apps are structured, the language used for development, the tooling & libraries that speed up our development, and the improvements in testing apps. What didn’t change in all these years is the Android UI

[GitHub]
Get up to speed with partial clone and shallow clone
As your Git repositories grow, it becomes harder and harder for new developers to clone and start working on them. Git is designed as a distributed version control system. This means that you can work on your

[GitHub]
Visualizing GitHub’s global community
This is the second post in a series about how we built our new homepage. In the first post, my teammate Tobias shared how we made the 3D globe come to life, with lots of

[GitHub]
How we built the GitHub globe
GitHub is where the world builds software. More than 56 million developers around the world build and work together on GitHub. With our new homepage, we wanted to show how open source development transcends the