[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

[Bootstrap.com]
Bootstrap 5 Beta 2
Our second beta has arrived for Bootstrap 5! We delayed its release to iron out some issues with third-party libraries and stabilize our major changes. We’ve also once again shipped some awesome updates to our documentation. Next up is our final beta, which we may even promote to a stable release

[Android]
Announcing Kotlin Symbol Processing (KSP) Alpha
Posted by Ting-Yuan Huang‎, Software Engineer and David Winer, Product Manager Today we are excited to announce the alpha of Kotlin Symbol Processing KSP, an all-new tool for building lightweight compiler plugins in Kotlin. KSP offers similar functionality to KAPT, however it’s up to 2x faster,

[GitHub]
New global ID format coming to GraphQL
The GitHub GraphQL API has been publicly available for over 4 years now. Its usage has grown immensely over time, and we’ve learned a lot from running one of the largest public GraphQL APIs in

[Wayfair]
Your Engineering Leadership Journey in a Nutshell
Before we start: despite my best efforts, this text contains many so-called male default terms, like leader, officer, or manager, which although they are generally believed to be gender-neutral, are considered by most men and sadly also the majority of women as male. I am therefore using pronouns

[BBC]
CSS Animations as a DOM-Based Animations Framework
This is the second post in a series about how BBC Children’s and Education have migrated from native-first apps to interactive app experiences as Progressive Web Apps PWA. As we saw in the first blog post, very soon we will be launching four CBeebies apps, completing the migration of old

[HubSpot]
What's Your Commstack?
When developers are looking for work or evaluating companies, it’s common to ask, “What’s your tech stack?” Naturally, people like to stay in ecosystems of technologies or services they have experience with and enjoy. For devs, choices of programming language, PaaS provider, framework, libraries,

[Deezer]
Updating Kubernetes CA certificates the hard way
In this article, we will share our experience with a tricky situation we found ourselves in a few months ago. It involves Kubernetes clusters, CA certificates, Hashicorp Vault, and transparent operations in production for millions of users.So buckle up; it might be a bumpy ride!The hard way yes,

[Spotify]
How Spotify Optimized the Largest Dataflow Job Ever for Wrapped 2020
In this post we’ll discuss how Spotify optimized and sped up elements from our largest Dataflow job, Wrapped 2019, for Wrapped 2020 using a technique called Sort Merge Bucket SMB join. We’ll present the design and implementation of SMB and how we incorporated it into our data pipelines

[Kotlin]
Down Dog Case Study: Building 500K Subscribers App with KMM
Down Dog is the innovative start up that brings a studio-like yoga experience to your mobile device. With Down Dog you get a brand new yoga routine every time you come to your mat. Unlike following pre-recorded videos, Down Dog won’t make you do the same workout over and over again. With over

[Android]
Quality to match with your user’s expectations
Posted by Hoi Lam, Android App Quality Since the launch of Android more than 10 years ago, the platform and the user’s expectations have grown. There are improvements from user experience through material design to the importance and advancement in privacy. We know you want your apps to offer a

[Docker]
Save the Date! Next Docker Community All Hands
We’re excited to announce that our next Community All Hands will be on March 11th, 2021. This quarterly event is a unique opportunity for Docker staff and the broader Docker community to come together for live company updates, product updates, demos, community shout-outs and Q&A. We had more than