[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.

[HubSpot]
When to Build a Mobile App (or Not)
In this post we look at why HubSpot built a mobile app, but these are lessons that could be applied to anybody considering building an app ⁠— particularly in the SaaS or B2B space. In truth, there are many reasons to build an app — from market expectation do you know any banks that don’t have a

[Android]
MAD Skills Kotlin and Jetpack: wrap-up
Posted by Florina Muntenescu, Developer Relations Engineer We just wrapped up another series of MAD Skills videos and articles - this time on Kotlin and Jetpack. We covered different ways in which we made Android code more expressive and concise, safer, and easy to run asynchronous code with

[Google Research]
ToTTo: A Controlled Table-to-Text Generation Dataset
Posted by Ankur Parikh and Xuezhi Wang, Research Scientists, Google Research In the last few years, research in natural language generation, used for tasks like text summarization, has made tremendous progress. Yet, despite achieving high levels of fluency, neural systems can still be prone to

[Soshace]
Build Real-World React Native App #9 : Implementing Remove Ads Feature
One of the simplest ways to make money from apps is through Advertisements. Hence, we have a popular ads network for mobile that is Admob. There are many ways to implement ads in our app. We can simply pick some ideas from the play store and implement them. The post Build Real-World React Native

[.NET]
The Plan for Entity Framework Core 6.0
Today we are excited to share with you the plan for Entity Framework Core 6.0. This plan brings together input from many stakeholders and outlines where and how we intend to invest for the Entity Framework EF Core 6.0 release. This plan is not set-in-stone and will evolve as we work on the

[Uber]
Uber’s Real-time Data Intelligence Platform At Scale: Improving Gairos Scalability/Reliability
Background Real-time data # of ride requests, # of drivers available, weather, game enables operations teams to make informed decisions like surge pricing, maximum dispatch ETA calculating, and demand/supply forecasting about our services that improve user experiences on the

[Bootstrap.com]
Bootstrap v4.6.0
Bootstrap v4.6.0 is here with a couple new features, several bugfixes, and some awesome documentation updates to make v4 more maintainable alongside our development of v5. Read on for the highlighted changes or head to the v4.6 docs to see the latest in action. Hugo! The biggest change in v4.6.0

[Kotlin]
Results of the First Kotlin Multiplatform Survey
The Kotlin team has always relied on feedback from the community for making decisions about the future of the technology. You will always be our go-to people who know best how to make Kotlin even more enjoyable to work with! This past November, we conducted our first-ever Kotlin Multiplatform