[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

[Google Research]
Introducing Model Search: An Open Source Platform for Finding Optimal ML Models
Posted by Hanna Mazzawi, Research Engineer and Xavi Gonzalvo, Research Scientist, Google Research The success of a neural network NN often depends on how well it can generalize to various tasks. However, designing NNs that can generalize well is challenging because the research community's

[Soshace]
Integrating GraphQL into Django
GraphQL is a query language for APIs and a runtime for fulfilling those queries with your existing data, providing a complete and understandable description of the data in your API

[BBC]
Looks Good To Me: Making code reviews better for remote-first teams
Why do you do code reviews? Perhaps it’s company policy, just an automatic part of your process, but have you ever sat down with your team and asked what everyone hopes to get out of it?As a developer, has it ever felt like playing a strange board game where the rules are secret and keep on

[Facebook]
FOQS: Scaling a distributed priority queue
We will be hosting a talk about our work on Scaling a Distributed Priority Queue during our virtual Systems @Scale event at 11 am PT on Wednesday, February 24, followed by a live Q&A session. Please submit any questions to systemsatscale@fb.com before the event. The entire Facebook ecosystem is

[Wayfair]
Building a Vulnerability Management Program for the Cloud
In 2018, Wayfair decided to move to a hybrid cloud infrastructure to host our storefront. We landed on Google Cloud Platform GCP as our infrastructure as a service provider, enabling our developer and infrastructure teams to move fast by providing a robust set of APIs and a highly flexible

[Bootstrap.com]
Bootstrap Icons v1.4.0
Bootstrap Icons v1.4.0 adds over 60 new icons as part of a brand new weather category. Also included are some long requested improvements to vertical alignment and a handful of updates to tags and categories. Keep reading for a preview of the new icons and how icon alignment has changed. 60+

[Kotlin]
Jetpack Compose for Desktop: Milestone 3 Released
The Compose for Desktop journey continues! Since the last milestone release of Compose for Desktop, we’ve done our best to bring you an even better experience when building desktop UIs in a modern and declarative style. Today we’re publishing Compose for Desktop Milestone 3, which introduces

[Docker]
Compiling Qt with Docker Using Caching
This is a guest post from Viktor Petersson, CEO of Screenly.io. Screenly is the most popular digital signage product for the Raspberry Pi. Find Viktor on Twitter @vpetersson. In the previous blog post, we talked about how we compile Qt for Screenly OSE using Docker’s nifty multi-stage and multi-

[Facebook]
Mitigating the effects of silent data corruption at scale
What the research is: Silent data corruption, or data errors that go undetected by the larger system, is a widespread problem for large-scale infrastructure systems. This type of corruption can propagate across the stack and manifest as application-level problems. It can also result in data loss

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[Evernote]
See What Evernote Customers Are Doing With Home
It’s been one month since we released Home for Windows, Mac, and web. See what customers are saying and how they’re using Home to feel more organized. The post See What Evernote Customers Are Doing With Home appeared first on evernote.com | Blog.

[Google Online Security]
New Password Checkup Feature Coming to Android
Posted by Arvind Kumar Sugumar, Software Engineer, Android TeamWith the proliferation of digital services in our lives, it’s more important than ever to make sure our online information remains safe and secure. Passwords are usually the first line of defense against hackers, and with the number

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[Lyft]
Elasticsearch Optimizations at Lyft
Photo by LyftBy Stefan Zier and Vinay KakadeIntroductionAt Lyft, we use an in-house Feature Service to store batch and streaming features used by ML models, making them accessible in both offline mode for training and online mode for inference. The service replicates these features in