[Soshace]
Build Real-World React Native App #10 : Setup in-App Purchase in iOS
The most awaited and considerably the lengthiest chapter is here. In this chapter, we will learn how to add the in-app purchase service in React Native using React Native IAP package The configurations are mainly for the iOS platform. Here, we are going to set up the subscriptions and configure

[Just Eat]
URLCache – Default size is not enough
Even though networks are getting faster every day, the amount of data transferred between your device and the cloud is also increasing. Here at Just Eat, we always aim to write reliable, and efficient code that results in fast, problem free transactions. Having a good caching strategy is an

[Slack]
Slack’s Outage on January 4th 2021
And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been. — Rainer Maria Rilke January 4th 2021 was the first working day of the year for many around the globe, and for most of us at Slack too except of course for our on-callers and our customer experience team, who never

[HubSpot]
Forget Multi-Tasking. It's Context-Switching That Matters.
Parallel task execution is a matter of perception.

[Soundcloud]
Tests Under the Magnifying Lens
Testing is at the heart of engineering practices at SoundCloud. We strive to build well-balanced test pyramids within our code repositories

[OpenDNS]
Small businesses are facing big cybersecurity challenges in 2021
Lots of things have changed in the past year, but one thing hasn’t changed: businesses of all sizes are vulnerable to cyberattacks. In the first half of 2020, a massive shift took place and users started working very differently. Many more are working remotely in distributed ways. At the same

[Soshace]
An Introduction to Finite State Machines: Simplifying React State Management with State Machines
State machines are one of the oldest concepts in computer science but also one of the most useful. When combined together with React, they can drastically reduce bugs and complexity in your code. The post An Introduction to Finite State Machines: Simplifying React State Management with State

[Semaphore CI Engineering]
Kubernetes vs Docker: Understanding Containers in 2021
Kubernetes has deprecated Docker. What now? Will you still be able to run your containers? Find out how this will influence your work. The post Kubernetes vs Docker: Understanding Containers in 2021 appeared first on Semaphore.

[Cloudflare]
The effect of switching to TCMalloc on RocksDB memory use
Memory allocator is an important part of the system, so choosing the right allocator for a workload can give huge benefits. Here is a story of how we decreased service memory usage by almost three times.

[Wayfair]
Guide to Seamless Kubernetes Deploys
Search Technologies is a highly impactful team at Wayfair looking for experienced engineers. We build fast, reliable and powerful customer-facing search systems across all Wayfair platforms. Our infrastructure provides the most enjoyable browsing and shopping experience for our customers and

[Google Online Security]
Know, Prevent, Fix: A framework for shifting the discussion around vulnerabilities in open source
Posted by Eric Brewer, Rob Pike, Abhishek Arya, Anne Bertucio and Kim Lewandowski Executive Summary:The security of open source software has rightfully garnered the industry’s attention, but solutions require consensus about the challenges and cooperation in the execution. The problem is complex

[Netflix]
Open Sourcing the Netflix Domain Graph Service Framework: GraphQL for Spring Boot
By Paul Bakker and Kavitha Srinivasan, Images by David Simmer, Edited by Greg BurrellNetflix has developed a Domain Graph Service DGS framework and it is now open source. The DGS framework simplifies the implementation of GraphQL, both for standalone and federated GraphQL services. Our

[Wayfair]
What Does an Architect Do?
Taking on a new role can be an experience that is at once career-definingly thrilling, and a bit nerve-wracking. The inevitable questions of one’s own ability start to creep into mind -- “I feel like I only just hit my stride in my last role! Why am I changing everything

[Imgur]
A Day in the Life – January 25 – 27 2021
Last week we wrapped up A Day in the Life, which saw Imgurians from every walk of life share a unique perspective on their daily lives, allowing the rest of

[Lyft]
How We Foster Mask Wearing With Our Health Safety Policy
In June, we introduced our Health Safety program to set a policy that reinforced public health best practices. We continue to do more work in this area to help keep our community safe and fight COVID-19. In this post, we’d like to share with you how we have approached maximizing compliance on our

[GitHub]
Deployment reliability at GitHub
Last week, we described how we improved the deployment experience for github.com. When we describe deployments at GitHub, the deployment experience is an important part of what it takes to ship applications to production, especially at GitHub's scale, but there is more to it: the actual

[Google Research]
Evaluating Design Trade-offs in Visual Model-Based Reinforcement Learning
Posted by Mohammad Babaeizadeh, Research Engineer and Dumitru Erhan, Research Scientist, Google Research Model-free reinforcement learning has been successfully demonstrated across a range of domains, including robotics, control, playing games and autonomous vehicles. These systems learn by

[Mozilla Automation Team]
Making Big Sur and pyenv play nicely
Soon after Big Sur came out, I received my new work laptop. I decided to upgrade to it. Unfortunately, I quickly discovered that the Python set up needed for Sentry required some changes. Since it took me a bit of time to figure it out I decided to document it for anyone trying to solve the same

[Soshace]
Nodejs Lesson 15: Internals of Nodejs: LibUV
Hello everyone, today we are going to talk about the internals of Nodejs. This article will guide how node js works and how it can handle async tasks. What will happen if ten requests come at once? Will it handle one request and discard the other 9? or will it create a queue and serve each one by

[Soshace]
Email Support with Flask
This article is aimed at developers who are interested in implementing email support with Flask. In the following example, I will start with an overview of the Flask-Mail package followed by the code that explains to integrate email support with the Flask Web Application. The post Email Support