[Uber]
The Journey Towards Metric Standardization
At Uber, business metrics are vital for discovering insights about how we perform, gauging the impact of new products, and optimizing the decision making process. The use cases for metrics can range from an operations member diagnosing a fares issue

[.NET]
Migrating RealProxy Usage to DispatchProxy
As I’ve helped customers port .NET Framework apps to .NET Core 3.1 and .NET 5, one question that has come up several times is the question of what to do about System.Runtime.Remoting.Proxies.RealProxy usage. Customers using the API are concerned because they know that remoting is not supported on

[Imgur]
A Very Cryptic Secret Santa
An extra dose of magic can make the holiday season just a little bit more special. When it comes to Imgur Secret Santa, there is no shortage of magic, generosity,

[Google Research]
Google Research: Looking Back at 2020, and Forward to 2021
Posted by Jeff Dean, Senior Fellow and SVP of Google Research and Health, on behalf of the entire Google Research community When I joined Google over 20 years ago, we were just figuring out how to really start on the journey of making a high quality and comprehensive search service for

[BBC]
A brief insight into the complexities of creating a new capability at the BBC
The BBC is committed to creating a truly personalised experience for everyone. We believe that a more personal BBC helps us build a deeper connection with our audiences, and helps us to extract more value from online. We have so much to offer across our products and services and one of our

[Deezer]
Using a “go links” service in your organization
When I joined Deezer three years ago, the onboarding process called DeezCover was undergoing a complete redesign, so mine was relatively brief. I struggled to find my way around the company’s organization and documentation as I stepped into my new job.Of course, there was an internal Wiki, but

[Docker Engineering]
Top Developer Trends for 2021
The year 2020 will go down in the history books for so many reasons. For Docker, despite the challenges of our November 2019 restructuring, we were fortunate to see 70% growth in activity from our 11.3 million monthly active users sharing 7.9 million apps pulled 13.6 billion times per month

[Cloudflare]
A Name Resolver for the Distributed Web
At Cloudflare, we have been exploring alternative ways to resolve queries to responses that align with these attributes. We are proud to announce a new resolver for the Distributed Web, where IPFS content indexed by the Ethereum Name Service ENS can be accessed.

[Slack]
A Day in the Life of a Backend Platform Engineer at Slack Pune
5:25 am First alarm rings. Snooze. 6:30 am The final alarm rings and I know this is the last one, so I get up and immediately start making my bed. I open the curtains to take a look at the weather and the early morning light. I walk to my balcony and stand there to

[Evernote]
See Your Evernote Like Never Before With Home
Your new entry point to your content makes Evernote more personal and easier to use. It’s the fastest way for you to get to the things that matter most. The post See Your Evernote Like Never Before With Home appeared first on evernote.com | Blog.

[Pinterest]
Manas Realtime — Enabling changes to be searchable in a blink of an eye
Manas Realtime — Enabling changes to be searchable in a blink of an eyeMichael Mi | Tech Lead, Core Product Serving InfraManas, Pinterest’s in-house search engine, is a generic information retrieval platform. As we discussed in our previous post, Manas was designed as a search framework with high

[.NET]
Diagnostics improvements in .NET 5
Building upon the diagnostics improvements we introduced in .NET Core 3.0, we’ve been hard at work further improving this space. I’m excited to introduce the next wave of diagnostics improvements. Diagnostics tool are available without the .NET SDK Until recently, the .NET diagnostics suite of

[Cloudflare]
Holistic web protection: industry recognition for a prolific 2020
Today we’re excited to announce that Frost & Sullivan has named Cloudflare the Innovation Leader in their Frost Radar™: Global Holistic Web Protection Market Report.

[Cloudflare]
Soar: Simulation for Observability, reliAbility, and secuRity
In this article, we will discuss one of the techniques we use to fight such software complexity: simulations. Simulations are basically system tests that run with synthesized customer traffic and applications.

[HubSpot]
Remote Productivity Hacks for Engineers
Many of us have been remote for a long time now, and some are choosing a hybrid work schedule even after the pandemic. In light of that, using productivity hacks to stay on top of things no matter where you're working from is the perfect new year's resolution for 2021.

[.NET]
Azure Active Directory’s gateway is on .NET Core 3.1!
Azure Active Directory’s gateway service is a reverse proxy that fronts hundreds of services that make up Azure Active Directory Azure AD. If you’ve used services such as office.com, outlook.com, or xbox.live.com, then you’ve used Azure AD’s gateway. The gateway provides features such as TLS

[Atlassian]
Welcome New Marketplace Partner Program Partners
Reading Time: 1 minute Happy New Year! We hope you all had a safe and restful holiday season. 2020 was a unique year full of

[Google Research]
Recognizing Pose Similarity in Images and Videos
Posted by Jennifer J. Sun, Student Researcher and Ting Liu, Senior Software Engineer, Google Research Everyday actions, such as jogging, reading a book, pouring water, or playing sports, can be viewed as a sequence of poses, consisting of the position and orientation of a person’s body. An

[New York Times]
We Recommend Articles With a Little Help From Our Friends (Machine Learning and Reader Input)
To create a more comprehensive personalization algorithm, we built a machine-learning model that relates article text to reader-selected interests.Illustration by Hwarim LeeBy Joyce XuIf you create an account with The New York Times, you are presented with a list of popular interests you can

[Cloudflare]
Uganda's January 13, 2021 Internet Shut Down
Two days ago, through its communications regulator, Uganda's government ordered the "Suspension Of The Operation Of Internet Gateways" hours before the country's general election. This action was confirmed by several users and journalists who got access to the letter sent to Internet providers.

[Cloudflare]
KEMTLS: Post-quantum TLS without signatures
The TLS 1.3 protocol has been around for quite some time, but it will be broken once quantum computers arrive. What can we do? In this blog post, we will examine a technique for achieving full post-quantum security for TLS 1.3 in the face of quantum computers: KEMTLS.