[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

[HubSpot]
HubSpot Partner & Provider Spotlight: Desiree Whitehead, Founder, Howl Marketing
Some of the best perspectives on HubSpot's product come from those who use it every day. In this new interview series, we profile HubSpot partners, providers, and customers, and ask their thoughts on what our product team should keep in mind while solving for them, and where the future of the

[Soshace]
Why Fastify is a better Nodejs framework for your next project compared to Express
Nodejs is JavaScript cross-platform runtime environment. When it comes to building a simple HTTP server for a project, building with nodejs, is simpler and lighter. This is because you don’t get to introduce external modules, built-in node modules. The post Why Fastify is a better Nodejs

[Google Research]
Stabilizing Live Speech Translation in Google Translate
Posted by Naveen Arivazhagan, Senior Software Engineer and Colin Cherry, Staff Research Scientist, Google Research The transcription feature in the Google Translate app may be used to create a live, translated transcription for events like meetings and speeches, or simply for a story at the

[Cloudflare]
Automating data center expansions with Airflow
How we automated data center expansions and cut by 90% the amount of time our team spent on tedious operational work.

[Google Research]
Addressing Range Anxiety with Smart Electric Vehicle Routing
Posted by Kostas Kollias and Sreenivas Gollapudi, Research Scientists, Geo Algorithms Team, Google Research Mapping algorithms used for navigation often rely on Dijkstra’s algorithm, a fundamental textbook solution for finding shortest paths in graphs. Dijkstra’s algorithm is simple and elegant

[Yelp]
Boosting user conversion with UX performance wins
Everyone loves graphs going up and to the right, unless they reflect your page load timings. This blog post is about curtailing higher page load times. Yelp for Business Owners allows business owners to manage their listing, respond to reviews, edit their business information, upload business

[Kotlin]
Philips Case Study: Building Connectivity with Kotlin Multiplatform
Philips is a leading health technology company focused on improving people’s health and well-being, and enabling better outcomes across the health continuum – from healthy living and prevention, to diagnosis, treatment and home care. Philips is pursuing the goal of improving 2.5 billion lives per

[Airbnb]
Designing Experimentation Guardrails
Introducing the Experiment Guardrails framework we implemented at Airbnb, which helps us prevent negative impact on key metrics while experimenting at scale.by Tatiana Xifara and Reid AndersenEach week, thousands of online experiments run concurrently on the Airbnb platform to measure the impact

[Cloudflare]
Data Privacy Day 2021 - Looking ahead at the always on, always secure, always private Internet
2020 was a big year for data protection, so what does 2021 have in store? On this Data Privacy Day, we talk about the key role data localization and encryption technologies will play in data protection this year.

[.NET]
Using C# Source Generators to create an external DSL
This post looks at how to use C# Source Generators to build an external DSL to represent mathematical expressions. The code for this post is on the roslyn-sdk repository. A recap of C# Source Generators There are two other articles describing C# Source Generators on this blog, The post Using C#

[Docker]
🧪 Open Sourcing the Docker Hub CLI Tool
At Docker, we are committed to making developer’s lives easier, and maintaining and extending our commitment to the Open Source community and open standards for many of our projects. We believe building new capabilities into the Docker Platform in partnership with our developer community and in

[Android]
Expanding the reach of your Android Auto apps
Posted by Eric Bahna, Product Manager In December, we opened the Google Play Store for publishing new Android Auto apps to closed testing. Today, you can reach more drivers by publishing navigation, parking, and charging apps to open testing tracks in the Google Play Store. With open testing,

[Google Research]
Improving Mobile App Accessibility with Icon Detection
Posted by Gilles Baechler and Srinivas Sunkara, Software Engineers, Google Research Voice Access enables users to control their Android device hands free, using only verbal commands. In order to function properly, it needs on-screen user interface UI elements to have reliable accessibility

[Cloudflare]
Cloudflare Named a ‘Best Place to Work for LGBTQ Equality’
Cloudflare receives a perfect score of 100 on the Human Rights Campaign’s 2021 Corporate Equality Index.

[Cloudflare]
Starting a new job in the middle of a pandemic
When 2020 started, it was not in my plans to change jobs and start working at a new company, completely remote, without ever meeting my colleagues in person or visiting the office. However, that is exactly what happened, and I am so glad I did.

[GitHub]
Making GitHub’s new homepage fast and performant
This post is the third installment of our five-part series on building GitHub’s new homepage: How our globe is built How we collect and use the data behind the globe How we made the page

[HubSpot]
Name Dropping: Maria Pereda, Director of Product Design at Clio
Name Dropping is a Q&A series that aims to elevate the stories of women and nonbinary people leading in the tech space. The idea came from Angela DeFranco, a VP of Product at HubSpot, who said one way to be better allies is to name drop more women and nonbinary people in discussions of

[Google Online Security]
Data Driven Security Hardening in Android
Posted by Kevin Deus, Joel Galenson, Billy Lau and Ivan Lozano, Android Security & Privacy TeamThe Android platform team is committed to securing Android for every user across every device. In addition to monthly security updates to patch vulnerabilities reported to us through our Vulnerability

[Google Research]
Learning to Reason Over Tables from Less Data
Posted by Julian Eisenschlos AI Resident, Google Research, Zürich The task of recognizing textual entailment, also known as natural language inference, consists of determining whether a piece of text a premise, can be implied or contradicted or neither by another piece of text the