[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

[.NET]
.NET Interactive with SQL!| .NET Notebooks in Visual Studio Code
In our last post , we announced that you can create .NET Notebooks in Visual Code. Today we are announcing that .NET Interactive now ships with T-SQL support in addition to C#, F#, PowerShell, JavaScript, and HTML. The .NET Interactive team has collaborated with the Azure Data Studio team to

[Indeed]
Shifting Modes: Creating a Program to Support Sustained Resilience
Originally published on InfoQ. Imagine for a moment that you work at a company that continuously ships customer-facing software. Say that your organization has managed to do the impossible and stopped having any serious incidents — you’ve achieved 100% reliability. Your product is successful

[Tumblr]
How Post Content is Stored on Tumblr
We’re currently rolling out an opt-in beta for a new post editor on web which will leverage the Neue Post Format behind the scenes. It’s been a very long time coming – work on the Neue Post Format began in 2015 and was originally codenamed “Poster Child”, and it was borne out of a lot of things

[Zendesk(old)]
Add Messaging to your React Native App
Written by Andrew Hughes, published by Zendesk Developershttps://medium.com/media/69162b776f5065e1448ca83551b79803/hrefAdd Messaging to your React Native App was originally published in Zendesk Developer Blog on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding

[.NET]
.NET Core 2.1 will reach End of Support on August 21, 2021
Updated 03/04/2021: added clarification regarding ASP.NET Core 2.1 support on .NET Framework. .NET Core 2.1 will be reaching end of support on August 21, 2021. After this date, Microsoft will no longer provide updates which includes security fixes or technical support for this version. The post

[.NET]
Learn to build HTTP APIs with .NET
ASP.NET makes it easy to build HTTP services that reach a broad range of clients, including browsers and mobile devices. Whether you’re new to .NET or an old pro, we’ve got a lot of fresh videos, tutorials, and documentation to help you learn how to build great HTTP APIs. The post Learn to build

[Cloudflare]
The Teams Dashboard: Finding a Product Voice
Users love products whose voices they recognize. Here’s how we created a voice for the Teams Dashboard, and how we’re working to make our user’s experience more intentional and consistent.