[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

[.NET]
.NET February 2021 Updates – 5.0.3, 3.1.12, 2.1.25
Today, we are releasing the .NET February 2021 Updates. These updates contains reliability and security improvements. See the individual release notes for details on updated packages. You can download 5.0.3 , 3.1.12, 2.1.25 versions for Windows, macOS, and Linux, for x86, The post .NET February

[Semaphore CI Engineering]
Talking CI/CD on Changelog’s Go Time Podcast
I had an honor to speak on Changelog's Go Time podcast along with Jérôme Petazzoni on Continuous Integration and Delivery CI/CD. The post Talking CI/CD on Changelog’s Go Time Podcast appeared first on Semaphore.

[Docker Engineering]
Docker Index Shows Continued Massive Developer Adoption and Activity to Build and Share Apps with Docker
It’s been one year since we started publishing the Docker Index stats, trends and analysis from developers and dev teams based on anonymized data from millions of Docker users. At that time we saw how Docker was being used at an incredible scale to power application building globally. Today we

[Netflix]
Hawkins: Diving into the Reasoning Behind our Design System
Stranger Things imagery showcasing the inspiration for the Hawkins Design Systemby Hawkins team member Joshua Godi; with art contributions by Wiki ChavesHawkins may be the name of a fictional town in Indiana, most widely known as the backdrop for one of Netflix’s most popular TV series “Stranger