[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

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[Medium]
To The Future Black History Makers in Tech
Black History Month is coming to a close this week. Like many others, I’ve used this month to celebrate Black culture and the achievements of Black pioneers.While we often celebrate Black history-makers from the past, I want to take some time to look to the future. After all, history is being

[Netflix]
Packaging award-winning shows with award-winning technology
By Cyril ConcolatoIntroductionIn previous blog posts, our colleagues at Netflix have explained how 4K video streams are optimized, how even legacy video streams are improved and more recently how new audio codecs can provide better aural experiences to our members. In all these cases, prior to

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[Netflix]
Beyond REST
Rapid Development with GraphQL Microservicesby Dane AvillaThe entertainment industry has struggled with COVID-19 restrictions impacting productions around the globe. Since early 2020, Netflix has been iteratively developing systems to provide internal stakeholders and business leaders with up-to-

[Android]
Low-Power Sleep Tracking on Android
Posted by Nick Grayson, Product Manager Android works best when it helps developers create apps that people love. That’s why we are dedicated to providing useful APIs like Activity Recognition which, with the user’s permission, can detect user’s activities such as whether a user is biking or

[Cloudflare]
Flow-based monitoring for Magic Transit
Today, we’re announcing new functionality to improve the experience for on demand Magic Transit customers: flow-based monitoring. Flow-based monitoring allows us to detect and notify customers when they’re under attack so they can activate Magic Transit for protection.

[GIPHY]
GIPHY2Vec: Natural Language Processing @ GIPHY
At Betaworks Studios’ “RENDERlite; GPT-What?” conference, Director of Machine Learning, Nick Hasty spoke on our in-house NLP tool called “GIPHY2Vec” a modification of Word2Vec. To learn more, check out the full talk below! For more great content, keep an eye on Betaworks Studios’ Event Calendar.

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[.NET]
Internals of the POH
As folks are aware we added a new kind of heap in .NET 5 called the POH Pinned Object Heap. Since this is a user facing feature and there aren't that many of those in GC I've been meaning to write about it but didn't get around till now. The post Internals of the POH appeared first on .NET Blog.

[Android]
#AndroidDevJourney spotlight - February edition
Luli Perkins, Developer Relations Program Manager Our second edition of #AndroidDevJourney is here! At the beginning of this year we launched the #AndroidDevJourney to share the stories of members of our community through our social platforms. Each Saturday, from January through June, we’ll

[Cloudflare]
The Teams Dashboard: Behind the Scenes
When we launched Cloudflare for Teams almost ten years later, the vision was very much the same — build a secure and powerful Zero Trust solution that is ridiculously easy to use.

[BBC]
Modernising A Legacy Android App Architecture, Part Three: Applying The Refactor
BackgroundHello. I’m Rob and I work on the Android version of BBC Sport. This article is the third in a sequence of pieces, talking about a refactor of our app.Obligatory disclaimer: views expressed are my own, not the BBC’s or the team’s.The first article is here and it introduced the phase of

[BBC]
Modernising A Legacy Android App Architecture, Part Two: MVVM-ish
BackgroundHello. I’m Rob and I work on the Android version of BBC Sport. This article is the second in a sequence, talking about a refactor of our app.Obligatory disclaimer: views expressed are my own, not the BBC’s or the team’s.The first is here and it introduced the phase of ‘rewrite’ that