[Soshace]
Build Real-World React Native App #11 : Pay For Remove Ads
In this chapter, we are going to apply it in order to implement the Remove Ads feature. First, we are going to implement the Remove ads screen which will have a privacy policy and terms of use along with buttons to trigger the subscription-based payments. The post Build Real-World React Native

[Discord]
Celebrating Black Community Leaders on Discord
For today’s special edition of the Community Spotlight, Discord is honoring Black History Month by featuring some of our most exceptional community leaders. Every server in today’s post was founded for different reasons, but all provide their users a place to share and connect with one

[Docker]
New Docker Desktop Preview for Apple M1 Released
This is just a quick update to let you know that we’ve released another preview of Docker Desktop for Apple M1 chips, which you can download from our Docker Apple M1 Tech Preview page. The most exciting change in this version is that Kubernetes now works. First, a big thank you to everyone who

[Facebook]
Faster, more efficient systems for finding and fixing regressions
Every workday, Facebook engineers commit thousands of diffs which is a change consisting of one or more files into production. This code velocity allows us to rapidly ship new features, deliver bug fixes and optimizations, and run experiments. However, a natural downside to moving quickly in

[Google Online Security]
Mitigating Memory Safety Issues in Open Source Software
Posted by Dan Lorenc, Infrastructure Security TeamMemory-safety vulnerabilities have dominated the security field for years and often lead to issues that can be exploited to take over entire systems. A recent study found that "~70% of the vulnerabilities addressed through a security update each

[Strava]
Convert a Universal (FAT) Framework to an XCFramework
BackgroundStrava consumes various third party frameworks via Carthage to power our application. These frameworks are either built from an Xcode project stored in a Github repository Carthage’s github directive in the Cartfile or distributed as prebuilt artifacts Carthage’s binary directive in

[Kotlin]
Multik: Multidimensional Arrays in Kotlin
A lot of data-heavy tasks, as well as optimization problems, boil down to performing computations over multidimensional arrays. Today we’d like to share with you the first preview of a library that aims to serve as a foundation for such computations – Multik. Multik offers both multidimensional

[.NET]
.NET Framework February 2021 Cumulative Update Preview for .NET Framework.
Yesterday, we released the February 2021 Cumulative Update Preview for .NET Framework. Quality and Reliability This release contains the following quality and reliability improvements. CLR1 Addresses an issue where the entire process would be torn down when a NullReferenceException propagated out

[Imgur]
Art Crawl 2021 Roundup
Whoa! What a week it has been! Art Crawl wrapped up on Friday, a veritable artistic cornucopia that saw 5,000 submissions, each beautiful and unique in their own way. We

[Slack]
Shadow Jobs
We take developer productivity pretty seriously at Slack. It’s multi-faceted, spreading across build speed, reliability, modernity, and more. One thing we really pride ourselves in is using the latest build tools when possible. Not necessarily bleeding edge alphas, betas, RC, etc., but the

[HubSpot]
Misnomers and Confusing Terms in Machine Learning
Like every other field, machine learning has its fair share of misnomers and confusing terms that, for one reason or another, have stuck. Usually that’s not a problem: meaning follows usage. It’s still useful for newcomers to be aware of them, though, so that these terms don’t propagate implicit

[New York Times]
Announcing the New York Times App for Slack
The app includes a ‘Popular in Your Workspace’ feature and a great read of the day selected by Times editors.Illustration by Jenice KimBy Anna Dubenko and Scott SheuOver the last few years, The New York Times Audience team began paying attention to how Times journalism was shared in private

[Squarespace]
How We Reimagined A/B Testing at Squarespace
Developing great products isn’t just a matter of engineering; it’s also about developing an understanding of your users and their needs. A/B Testing is one of the most powerful tools in this regard, and over the past year, we’ve been turning A/B testing into a simple, repeatable process that

[Kotlin]
Leroy Merlin Case Study: Building Customer-Facing Flagship App with KMM
Leroy Merlin helps people all around the world improve their living environment and lifestyle by helping them design the homes of their dreams and make them a reality. The Leroy Merlin mobile app helps customers search for products, shop online and find their nearest store. The Russian branch of

[Cloudflare]
Introducing: Smarter Tiered Cache Topology Generation
Announcing a fundamental improvement to Argo Tiered Cache we’re calling Smart Tiered Cache Topology. When enabled, Argo Tiered Cache will now dynamically select the single best upper tier for each of your website’s origins while providing tiered cache analytics.

[Cloudflare]
Tiered Cache Smart Topology
We are introducing a new topology for Tiered Cache that reduces origin load by increasing cache hit ratio.

[Google Research]
Mastering Atari with Discrete World Models
Posted by Danijar Hafner, Student Researcher, Google Research Deep reinforcement learning RL enables artificial agents to improve their decisions over time. Traditional model-free approaches learn which of the actions are successful in different situations by interacting with the environment

[Android]
First preview of Android 12
Posted by Dave Burke, VP of Engineering Every day, Android apps help billions of people work, play, communicate, and create on a wide range of devices from phones and laptops to tablets, TVs, and cars. As more people come to rely on the experiences you build, their expectations can rise just as

[Pinterest]
How we designed our Continuous Integration System to be more than 50% Faster
Urvashi Reddy | Software Engineer, Engineering Productivity TeamEarlier this year, the Engineering Productivity team at Pinterest published a blog called How a one line change decreased our clone times by 99%. In that post, we described how a simple Git configuration sped up clone times in one of

[Cloudflare]
Using HPKE to Encrypt Request Payloads
Allowing users to securely log parts of the request that match firewall rules while making it impossible for anyone else to decrypt.

[Uber]
Fast and Reliable Schema-Agnostic Log Analytics Platform
At Uber, we provide a centralized, reliable, and interactive logging platform that empowers engineers to work quickly and confidently at scale. The logs are tagged with a rich set of contextual key value pairs, with which engineers can slice and