[Lyft]
Announcing the Mobile Native Foundation
Today, we’re excited to launch the Mobile Native Foundation. Backed by The Linux Foundation, along with Airbnb, Capital One, Corellium, Elotl, Flare.build, GitHub, GogoApps, Haystack, Line, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Peloton, Robinhood, Sauce Labs, Screenplay, Slack, Solid Software, Spotify, and

[Uber]
Applying Machine Learning in Internal Audit with Sparsely Labeled Data
As machine learning continues to evolve, transforming the various industries it touches, it has only begun to inform the world of audit. As a data scientist and former CPA Auditor, I can understand why this is the case. By nature,

[.NET]
Introducing the .NET Upgrade Assistant Preview
Today we’re excited to introduce a tool we’ve been working on to help you upgrade your .NET Framework-based applications to .NET 5 called the .NET Upgrade Assistant. The .NET Upgrade Assistant is a .NET global command-line tool that gives you a guided experience for incrementally upgrading your

[Android]
Google Play Console powers better strategic decisions with new engagement metrics and unique benchmarks
Posted by Tom Grinsted, Product Manager, Google Play Today in Google Play Console, we’ve launched a suite of new metrics and unique comparative benchmarks. Using these, you can evaluate your app or games’ engagement and monetization trends against up to 250 different peersets, helping you make

[Airbnb]
Inside Connect: Airbnb’s Engineering Apprenticeship Program
The first of a three-part blog series on Connect, an apprenticeship opportunity for aspiring Airbnb software engineers.by Beti Gathegi & Jacqui WattsHello! We’re excited that you’re here to learn more about the Connect program. Before we share details, though, we’d like to introduce ourselves

[Netflix]
A Day in the Life of an Experimentation and Causal Inference Scientist @ Netflix
Stephanie Lane, Wenjing Zheng, Mihir TendulkarSource credit: NetflixWithin the rapid expansion of data-related roles in the last decade, the title Data Scientist has emerged as an umbrella term for myriad skills and areas of business focus. What does this title mean within a given company, or

[Pinterest]
People Behind the Product: Meet Rahim Daya, Head of International Product & Toronto Lead
Rahim Daya | Toronto Site Lead & International Product LeadRahim Daya, Toronto-native and Pinployee of nearly 4 years, is Pinterest’s Toronto Site Lead and International Product Lead. Ahead of our virtual Pinterest Engineering: Meet the Toronto Team event, get to know Rahim and learn more about

[Facebook]
Boosting the performance of virtual machines with Jump-Start
What the research is: Jump-Start is a new approach for improving the performance of virtual machines at scale. Virtual machines are a modern and popular design to implement programming languages used to build applications in general, including large-scale websites like Facebook and Instagram

[Ebay]
How eBay’s Distributed Architecture Surfaces More Item Listings for Buyers
With Buyer Demand Data, eBay sellers can access information on the item specifics buyers are using in their search queries. This insight increases sellers’ completion of item specifics, which in turn further enhances listings’ quality, visibility and sales.

[Stack Overflow]
Best practices can slow your application down
In order to get the most performant site possible when building the codebase for our public Stack Overflow site, we didn’t always follow best practices. The post Best practices can slow your application down appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog.

[.NET]
F# and F# tools update for Visual Studio 16.9
We’re excited to announce updates to the F# tools for Visual Studio 16.9. Since the F# 5 release last November, we’ve been hard at work to improve the F# tools experience in Visual Studio. I’ll cover the major improvements made by category: .NET 5 scripting for Visual Studio New productivity

[Android]
Android Dev Challenge: Week 2 - Countdown timer
Posted by Florina Muntenescu, Developer Relations Engineer 3

[Dropbox]
New Paper Endpoints Released in Preview
New endpoints are available to interact with Paper in the File System using the Dropbox API.

[GitHub]
GitHub Availability Report: February 2021
Introduction In February, we experienced no incidents resulting in service downtime to our core services. This month’s GitHub Availability Report will provide initial details around an incident from March 1 that caused significant impact and

[Soshace]
Handling GraphQL API Authentication using Auth0 with Hasura Actions
In this article, we’re going to demonstrate how we can set up Authentication/Authorization with Hasura and Auth0. First, we’ll set up the Auth0 application, API, and rules. The post Handling GraphQL API Authentication using Auth0 with Hasura Actions appeared first on Soshace.

[Cloudflare]
Conntrack turns a blind eye to dropped SYNs
We have been dealing with conntrack, the connection tracking layer in the Linux kernel, for years. And yet, despite the collected know-how, questions about its inner workings occasionally come up. When they do, it is hard to resist the temptation to go digging for answers.

[Deezer]
Private libraries in Android — how to manage them.
Private libraries in Android — how to manage them.This post is part of a series on private libraries:Part 1: Private libraries in Android — why you should consider itPart 2: Private libraries in Android — how to manage themIn the first part of the series, we talked about the benefits of private

[HubSpot]
HubSpot Customer Spotlight: Su Sanni, President, Technology Solutions, Allegiance Fundraising Group
Some of the best perspectives on HubSpot's product come from those who use it every day. In this interview series, we profile HubSpot partners, providers, and customers, and ask their thoughts on what our product team should keep in mind while solving for them, and where the future of the

[New York Times]
Meeting… Natasha Dykes, Senior Software Engineer at The New York Times
Celebrating Women’s History MonthThis March, we are featuring colleagues from across The New York Times in a special Women’s History Month series of ‘Meeting’Illustration by Claire MerchlinskyWhat are your pronouns?She/HerWhat is your job title and what does it mean?I’m a Senior Software Engineer

[New York Times]
How We Rearchitected Mobile A/B Testing at The New York Times
We use A/B tests to make decisions about the products and features we release, but our mobile test allocation wasn’t separating users properly and we had to figure out how to fix it.Illustration by Patrick KyleBy Julian Locke and Sameer MoreIn early 2020, the mobile engineering teams at The New