[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.

[Cloudflare]
How We Ran a Successful Remote Internship Program in 2020
Although tumultuous and unexpected, 2020 did not come without its silver linings, one being Cloudflare’s remote summer internship program.

[Soshace]
Integrate LDAP Authentication with Flask
This article is aimed at developers who are interested to integrate LDAP Authentication with Flask. In the following example, I will start with an overview of LDAP technology followed by the code that explains to integrate LDAP with Flask Web Application. The post Integrate LDAP Authentication

[Affinity]
Optimizing joins in Redshift
Visualizing a sample analytics queryRecently at Affinity, we accelerated our analytics workloads on Redshift by optimizing our use of joins. In this blog post, we begin by sharing the general takeaways that you can apply as you optimize your Redshift queries. We then share our step-by-step

[Eventbrite]
MySQL High Availability at Eventbrite
Situation Eventbrite has been using MySQL since its inception as a company in 2006. MySQL has served the company well as an OLTP database and we’ve leveraged the strong features of MySQL such as native replication and fast reads, as well as dealt with some of its pain points such as impactful

[Docker]
New Docker Reporting Provides Teams with Tools for Higher Efficiency and Better Collaboration
Today, we are very excited to announce the release of Audit Log, a new capability that provides the administrators of Docker Team subscription accounts with a chronological report of their team activities. The Audit Log is an unbiased system of record, displaying all the status changes for Docker

[GitHub]
Improving how we deploy GitHub
As GitHub doubled it’s developer head count, tooling that worked for us no longer functioned in the same capacity. We aimed to improve the deployment process for all developers at GitHub and mitigate risk associated with deploying one of the largest developer platforms in the world.

[BBC]
Optimising serverless for BBC Online
Previously I talked about why Web Core, our new web technology platform is built using serverless cloud functions. In this post we’ll discuss our experience of integrating them with our architecture and how we’ve optimised them for our use case.The BBC makes use of many different technology

[Docker]
New Docker and JFrog Partnership Designed to Improve the Speed and Quality of App Development Processes
Today, Docker and JFrog announced a new partnership to ensure developers can benefit from integrated innovation across both companies’ offerings. This partnership sets the foundation for ongoing integration and support to help organizations increase both the velocity and quality of modern app

[Facebook]
How machine learning powers Facebook’s News Feed ranking algorithm
Designing a personalized ranking system for more than 2 billion people all with different interests and a plethora of content to select from presents significant, complex challenges. This is something we tackle every day with News Feed ranking. Without machine learning ML, people’s News Feeds