[Discord]
How Discord’s College Ambassadors Helped Clubs Stay Close
Since time immemorial, clubs have helped students stave off stress, loneliness, and the many pressures of higher education. There’s almost nothing college can throw at you that you can’t weather if you’ve got a solid group of friends to fall back on.To help student organizations get even more

[OLX]
Load Shedding with NGINX using adaptive concurrency control — Part 2
Load Shedding with NGINX using adaptive concurrency control — Part 2Author’s Note: This is a two-part series about how we implemented and operationalized load shedding in our services using adaptive concurrency control with NGINX. Part 1 sets the context/background and part 2 focusses on the

[OLX]
Load Shedding with NGINX using adaptive concurrency control — Part 1
Load Shedding with NGINX using adaptive concurrency control — Part 1Author’s Note: This is a two-part series about how we implemented and operationalized load shedding in our services using adaptive concurrency control with NGINX. Part 1 sets the context/background and part 2 focusses on the

[.NET]
.NET Framework February 2021 Cumulative Update Preview for Windows 10 2004, Windows Server, version 2004, Windows 10, version 20H2 and Windows Server, version 20H2
Today, we are releasing the February 2021 Cumulative Update Preview for .NET Framework for Windows 10 2004, Windows Server, version 2004, Windows 10, version 20H2 and Windows Server, version 20H2. Quality and Reliability This release contains the following quality and reliability improvements

[BBC]
Building a WebAssembly Runtime for BBC iPlayer and enhanced audience experiences.
In BBC R&D, we are investigating how we evolve our current multimedia applications to move beyond video by using Object Based Media OBM. OBM allows us to develop future audience experiences which are immersive, interactive and personalised.There is an ever increasing number and range of

[Cloudflare]
Creating serendipity with Python
We've been experimenting with breaking up employees into random groups of size 4 and setting up video hangouts between them. We're doing this to replace the serendipitous meetings that sometimes occur around coffee machines, in lunch lines or while waiting for the printer.

[Docker Engineering]
Captains Take 5 – Nick Janetakis
Docker Captains are select members of the community that are both experts in their field and are passionate about sharing their Docker knowledge with others. “Docker Captains Take 5” is a regular blog series where we get a closer look at our Captains and ask them the same broad set of questions

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[Google Online Security]
Celebrating the influence and contributions of Black+ Security & Privacy Googlers
Posted by Royal Hansen, Vice President, SecurityBlack History Month may be coming to a close, but our work to build sustainable equity for Google’s Black+ community, and externally is ongoing. Currently, Black Americans make up less than 12% of information security analysts in the U.S. In an

[New York Times]
Meeting… Gerardo Núñez, Senior Data Analyst at The New York Times
“Meeting

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[New York Times]
A More Accessible Web
Some of the web technologies that The New York Times has leveraged to enhance the user experience of our website and apps for all.Illustration by Dominic KestertonBy Shilpa KumarLast year marked the thirtieth anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act being signed into law, which banned

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[Pinterest]
Fighting spam with Guardian, a real-time analytics and rules engine
Hongkai Pan | Software Engineer, Trust & SafetyAs the Trust & Safety team, one of our major responsibilities is protecting Pinners from spam. Without protections, spam could potentially be all over Pinterest since spammers can script and generate activity at a rate much higher than actual

[Uber]
How Uber Deals with Large iOS App Size
The App Size Problem Uber’s iOS mobile Apps for Rider, Driver, and Eats are large in size. The choice of Swift as our primary programming language, our fast-paced development environment and feature additions, layered software and its dependencies, and statically

[Android]
Students Learn Android App Development with Google Developer Student Clubs
Posted by Erica Hanson, Global Program Manager, Google Developer Student Clubs Google Developer Student Clubs, a program of university based community groups for students interested in Google developer technologies, recently started hosting study groups called Android Study Jams. The goal? Learn

[Etsy]
How Etsy Prepared for Historic Volumes of Holiday Traffic in 2020
The Challenge For Etsy, 2020 was a year of unprecedented and volatile growth. Simply on a human level it was also a profoundly tragic year, but that’s a different article. Our site traffic leapt up in the second quarter, when lockdowns went into widespread effect, by an amount it normally would

[Google Research]
Lyra: A New Very Low-Bitrate Codec for Speech Compression
Posted by Alejandro Luebs, Software Engineer and Jamieson Brettle, Product Manager, Chrome Connecting to others online via voice and video calls is something that is increasingly a part of everyday life. The real-time communication frameworks, like WebRTC, that make this possible depend on