[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

[Soshace]
Building a WordPress Website with React (Frontity)
Building a WordPress Website with React Frontity. The post Building a WordPress Website with React Frontity appeared first on Soshace.

[OLX]
AutoSuggest Retrieval & Ranking (Part 2)
OLX AutoSuggestIn the previous post, we answered questions like “What is autosuggest?” and “Why do we need it?”, followed by the discussion around the techniques that we used to build the corpus for autosuggest at OLX.In this post, we’ll be focusing on the algorithms or techniques that we used to

[Cloudflare]
Cloudflare Acquires Linc
Today, we’re excited to announce the acquisition of Linc, an automation platform to help front-end developers collaborate and build powerful applications.

[Cloudflare]
Beat - An Acoustics Inspired DDoS Attack
On the week of Black Friday, Cloudflare automatically detected and mitigated “Beat” - an acoustics inspired DDoS attacks that targeted a Magic Transit customer.

[Discord]
Building on our momentum
By Jason and StanSix months ago, we started to change the way we talked about Discord to make it more welcoming to the millions of people who were using our service for much more than playing games together online.Since then we’ve heard about all the ways you’ve been using Discord to explore your

[Buzzfeed]
More Data More Problems
More Data, More ProblemsHow BuzzFeed Scaled its Data OperationData has always been integral to BuzzFeed’s success. It allows team members to build data-driven products, evaluate how our content is performing, and ask questions to more deeply understand our audience — all to ultimately inform

[Docker]
Closing Out 2020 with More Innovation for Developers
Recently our CEO Scott Johnston took a look back on all that Docker had achieved one year after selling the Enterprise business to Mirantis and refocusing solely on developers. We made significant investments to deliver value-enhancing features for developers, completed strategic collaborations

[Kotlin]
Faire Сase Study: Kotlin Backend for a Disruptive SMB Marketplace
Like most startups, at the beginning of its journey Faire was looking for an efficient solution to base its tech stack on. Having started with Java, a year in, the company started looking for other options, and opted for Kotlin. They now use Kotlin for their Android app and for the website