[Zendesk]
Implementing mTLS and Securing Apache Kafka at Zendesk
This article was originally posted on the Confluent blog at https://www.confluent.io/blog/how-zendesk-secures-kafka-with-mtls-authentication-system/BackgroundAt Zendesk, Apache Kafka® is one of our foundational services for distributing events among different internal systems. We have pods, which

[BBC]
Delivering BBC Online using Serverless
Previously we wrote about how we’ve moved BBC Online to the cloud. This post looks more closely at why Web Core, our new web technology platform is built using serverless cloud functions.A BBC News Article powered by serverlessThe BBC has some big traffic daysBefore we talk about serverless,

[Soshace]
Web development with Flask framework illustrated an address book project
This is a sample software development project which is to showcase how to develop a web application utilizing Linux, Apache, SQLite and Python Flask’s framework The post Web development with Flask framework illustrated an address book project appeared first on Soshace.

[Spotify]
Protected: Introducing XCMetrics: Our All-in-One Tool for Tracking Xcode Build Metrics
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[Slack]
Women in Security at Slack
Since its inception, Slack has fostered a culture of inclusion and diversity. The Security organization at Slack is a prime example of how women can thrive in the security space, transitioning to security from different backgrounds and expertises. With Slack’s strong commitment to diversity, it

[Strava]
Distributed Tracing at Strava
In this post, we’ll define distributed tracing, explain our motivation for adoption, and highlight a few scenarios where it can be helpful for operating software.MotivationOnce upon a time some 12 years ago, Strava was a single Rails app backed by a couple SQL tables. Fast forward to today, our

[Soshace]
Writing end-to-end tests for Nuxt apps using jsdom and AVA
Testing is a very important aspect of web application development. It can help reveal bugs before they appear and also instill confidence in your web application, especially during its launch. In this article, we will explore jsdom and AVA testing frameworks while writing tests for the Nuxt

[GitHub]
The best of Changelog • 2020 Edition
If you haven’t seen it, the GitHub Changelog helps you keep up-to-date with all the latest features and updates to GitHub. We shipped a tonne of changes last year, and it’s impossible to blog about

[New York Times]
Meeting… Corina Aoi, Technical Product Manager at The New York Times
“Meeting

[Google Research]
RxR: A Multilingual Benchmark for Navigation Instruction Following
Posted by Alexander Ku, Software Engineer and Peter Anderson, Research Scientist, Google Research A core challenge in machine learning ML is to build agents that can navigate complex human environments in response to spoken or written commands. While today’s agents, including robots, can often

[Lyft]
Introducing Lyft’s Mexico City Engineering Office
Our CDMX Team!Lyft was founded in 2012 by Logan Green and John Zimmer to improve people’s lives with the world’s best transportation. Available to approximately 95 percent of the United States population as well as select cities in Canada, Lyft is committed to affecting positive change for our

[Docker]
Docker Captain Take 5 – Elton Stoneman
Docker Captains are select members of the community that are both experts in their field and are passionate about sharing their Docker knowledge with others. “Docker Captains Take 5” is a regular blog series where we get a closer look at our Captains and ask them the same broad set of questions

[Cloudflare]
Introducing Project Fair Shot: Ensuring COVID-19 Vaccine Registration Sites Can Keep Up With Demand
Project Fair Shot provides Cloudflare's new Waiting Room service for free for any government, municipality, hospital, pharmacy, or other organization responsible for distributing COVID-19 vaccines.

[Cloudflare]
Cloudflare Waiting Room
Today, we are excited to announce Cloudflare Waiting Room! It will be first available to select customers through a new program called Project Fair Shot, with general availability in our Business and Enterprise plans in the near future.

[Cloudflare]
Network-layer DDoS attack trends for Q4 2020
DDoS attack trends in the final quarter of 2020 defied norms in many ways. For the first time in 2020, Cloudflare observed an increase in the number of large DDoS attacks. Specifically, the number of attacks over 500Mbps and 50K pps saw a massive uptick.

[HubSpot]
Design Ownership for Engineers
In HubSpot’s early days, a lot of our designing was done by our engineers. Now, we’re fortunate enough to have a dedicated design organization, and with all due respect to our engineers, our designers have brought with them lots of improvements to the product.

[Netflix]
Optimizing the Aural Experience on Android Devices with xHE-AAC
By Phill Williams and Vijay GondiIntroductionAt Netflix, we are passionate about delivering great audio to our members. We began streaming 5.1 channel surround sound in 2010, Dolby Atmos in 2017, and adaptive bitrate audio in 2019. Continuing in this tradition, we are proud to announce that

[Google Research]
Improving Indian Language Transliterations in Google Maps
Posted by Cibu Johny, Software Engineer, Google Research and Saumya Dalal, Product Manager, Google Geo Nearly 75% of India’s population — which possesses the second highest number of internet users in the world — interacts with the web primarily using Indian languages, rather than English. Over

[Pinterest]
Manas HNSW Realtime: Powering Realtime Embedding-Based Retrieval
Tim Koh | Software Engineer, Core Product Serving InfraGeorge Wu | Software Engineer, Core Product Serving InfraMichael Mi | Tech Lead, Core Product Serving InfraIn our previous blog post, we introduced our in-house search engine — Manas — and shared how we served term-based search at scale

[Discord]
How a UC Berkeley Student Helps Recreate a Campus Experience Through Discord
How a UC Berkeley Student Helps Recreate a Campus Experience on DiscordThe International Day of Education celebrates the role of teachers, students, and institutions in building a better and more peaceful world. The struggles of the past year have shown how important that mission is — even as

[Stack Overflow]
A deeper dive into our May 2019 security incident
We take a detailed look at a hacking incident that gave a user unauthorized access to our code and data. The post A deeper dive into our May 2019 security incident appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog.