[Google Research]
Machine Learning for Computer Architecture
Posted by Amir Yazdanbakhsh, Research Scientist, Google Research One of the key contributors to recent machine learning ML advancements is the development of custom accelerators, such as Google TPUs and Edge TPUs, which significantly increase available compute power unlocking various

[Soshace]
Nodejs Lesson 16: Internals of Nodejs: Event Loop
This lesson will continue the last lesson where we learned how the LibUV library works internally. In this lesson, we will learn about Event Loop and understand various terms like call stack, callback queue, etc. Let's start. The post Nodejs Lesson 16: Internals of Nodejs: Event Loop appeared

[Facebook]
Open-sourcing Thrift for Haskell
What it is: Thrift is a serialization and remote procedure call RPC framework used for cross-service communication. Most services at Facebook communicate via Thrift because it provides a simple, language-agnostic protocol for communicating with structured data. Thrift can already be used in

[Google Online Security]
Launching OSV - Better vulnerability triage for open source
Posted by Oliver Chang and Kim Lewandowski, Google Security TeamWe are excited to launch OSV Open Source Vulnerabilities, our first step towards improving vulnerability triage for developers and consumers of open source software. The goal of OSV is to provide precise data on where a

[Google Research]
TracIn — A Simple Method to Estimate Training Data Influence
Posted by Frederick Liu and Garima Pruthi, Software Engineers, Google Research The quality of a machine learning ML model’s training data can have a significant impact on its performance. One measure of data quality is the notion of influence, i.e., the degree to which a given training example

[Cloudflare]
Who won Super Bowl LV? A look at Internet traffic during the game
The obvious answer is the Tampa Bay Buccaneers but the less obvious answer comes from asking “which Super Bowl advertiser got the biggest Internet bump?”. This blog aims to answer that question.

[Cloudflare]
Congratulations to Cloudflare’s 2020 Partner Award Winners
We are privileged to share Cloudflare’s inaugural set of Partner Awards. These Awards recognize our partner companies and representatives worldwide who stood out this past year for their investments in acquiring technical expertise in our offerings

[Indeed]
Indeed’s FOSS Contributor Fund: 2021 Updates
Indeed’s FOSS Contributor Fund is now live for 2021. The program enables Indeed employees who make open source contributions to nominate and vote for projects to receive a donation from the fund. We’re proud that the fund has introduced more Indeedians to the open source community. This post

[Docker]
CFP for DockerCon LIVE 2021 Now Open!
Ahoy! You can now submit your talk proposal for DockerCon LIVE 2021! Taking place May 27, 2021, DockerCon brings together the entire community of Docker developers, contributors and partners to share, teach, and collaborate to grow the understanding and capabilities of modern application

[Wayfair]
Case Study: Using Storybook to Enhance our Frontend Developer Experience
Here at Wayfair Engineering, we're aggressively migrating our monolithic systems into decoupled independent libraries and microservices. Decoupled libraries and services allow us to build faster and deploy more frequently, but they can create discoverability and software testing challenges. In

[Cloudflare]
2020 U.S. Election: Cybersecurity Analysis
As we protect many entities in the election space, we have the ability to identify, learn and analyze attack trends targeted at these sites that provide authoritative election information.

[Facebook]
Minesweeper automates root cause analysis as a first-line defense against bugs
Root cause analysis RCA is an important part of fixing any bug. After all, you can’t solve a problem without getting to the heart of it. But RCA isn’t always simple, especially at a scale like Facebook’s. When billions of people are using an app on a variety of platforms and devices, a single

[HubSpot]
AWIT Panel Video: Diverse Teams Win
As your business seeks to reach a diverse audience and grow a broad customer base, you've probably heard that having diversity within your product teams is important. Why is that the case? How are product leaders building diverse teams in real life? What outcomes are they seeing?

[Netflix]
Growth Engineering at Netflix- Creating a Scalable Offers Platform
by Eric EiswerthBackgroundNetflix has been offering streaming video-on-demand SVOD for over 10 years. Throughout that time we’ve primarily relied on 3 plans Basic, Standard, & Premium, combined with the 30-day free trial to drive global customer acquisition. The world has changed a lot in

[Netflix]
Growth Engineering at Netflix — Automated Imagery Generation
Growth Engineering at Netflix — Automated Imagery Generationby Eric EiswerthBackgroundThere’s a good chance you’ve probably visited the Netflix homepage. In the Growth Engineering team, we refer to this as the top of the signup funnel. For more background on the signup funnel and Growth

[Netflix]
Edge Authentication and Token-Agnostic Identity Propagation
by AIM Team Members Karen Casella, Travis Nelson, Sunny Singh; with prior art and contributions by Justin Ryan, Satyajit ThadeshwarAs most developers can attest, dealing with security protocols and identity tokens, as well as user and device authentication, can be challenging. Imagine having

[Android]
New curriculum for educators to teach Android app development
Posted by Kat Kuan, Developer Advocate, Android We strive to make Android development content accessible to all, so that anyone can become an Android developer. Over the years, millions of students at all different levels have consumed our learning content and worked through courses and codelabs

[Airbnb]
Supercharging Apache Superset
How Airbnb customized Superset for business intelligence at scaleBy: Erik Ritter, Grace Guo, Jesse Yang, John Bodley, and Zuzana VejrazkovaIntroductionAt Airbnb, many employees rely on data every day to do their jobs. While several different tools are used for analysis, at the core of Airbnb’s

[Discord]
Let’s Hear It for the Mods
In celebration of Safer Internet Day, we want to recognize the awesome humans who are working to make Discord a more welcoming place for everyone.Communities of all sizes benefit from the aid that Server Moderation provides. Whether it’s you and a pal managing your small friend group server or a

[Lyft]
How Lyft discovered OpenStreetMap is the Freshest Map for Rideshare
Mark Huberty & Clare Corthell, Lyft MappingRoads to the new terminal at LaGuardia Airport opened in July 2020, evidenced by aggregate Lyft traffic left. OpenStreetMap data had been updated right shortly after opening, faster than many other maps.Lyft Mapping study shows crucial OpenStreetMap