[Soundcloud]
Building a Healthy On-Call Culture
Paging Doctor Software In the past, on-call duty was often associated with doctors, but in recent years, it’s become common for software

[.NET]
Blinking LEDs with Raspberry Pi
The Raspberry Pi is one of the world’s most successful hardware projects. A lot of people have one, but not everyone knows what to do with it. You can use it as a desktop computer or the brain of an electronic circuit. The post Blinking LEDs with Raspberry Pi appeared first on .NET Blog.

[HubSpot]
Mobile Rewrote the Rulebook for Software. B2B Is Still Catching Up.
Fourteen years ago, Steve Jobs stood onstage and introduced the iPhone. It wasn’t the first smartphone, but it was the start of the smartphone era. And now 14 years later, we can clearly see some of the effects of this announcement on the ways that we think about and use computers and software.

[Pinterest]
Pinterest Flink Deployment Framework
Rainie Li | Software Engineer, Stream Processing Platform TeamBackgroundAt Pinterest, stream processing allows us to unlock value from real time data for pinners and partners. The Stream Processing Platform team is working on building a reliable and scalable platform to support many critical

[Docker]
Guest Post: Calling the Docker CLI from Python with Python-on-whales
At Docker, we are incredibly proud of our vibrant, diverse and creative community. From time to time, we feature cool contributions from the community on our blog to highlight some of the great work our community does. The following is a guest post by Docker community member Gabriel de Marmiesse

[Google Online Security]
Continuing to Raise the Bar for Verifiable Security on Pixel
Posted by Eugene Liderman, Android Security and Privacy TeamEvaluating the security of mobile devices is difficult, and a trusted way to validate a company’s claims is through independent, industry certifications. When it comes to smartphones one of the most rigorous end-to-end certifications is

[Google Online Security]
#ShareTheMicInCyber: Brooke Pearson
Posted by Parisa Tabriz, Head of Chrome Product, Engineering and UX In an effort to showcase the breadth and depth of Black+ contributions to security and privacy fields, we’ve launched a profile series that aims to elevate and celebrate the Black+ voices in security and privacy we have here at

[Cloudflare]
Lessons Learned from Scaling Up Cloudflare’s Anomaly Detection Platform
Anomaly Detection uses an algorithm called Histogram-Based Outlier Scoring HBOS to detect anomalous traffic in a scalable way. While HBOS is less precise than algorithms like kNN when it comes to local outliers, it is able to score global outliers quickly in linear time.

[Google Online Security]
A Spectre proof-of-concept for a Spectre-proof web
Posted by Stephen Röttger and Artur Janc, Information Security EngineersThree years ago, Spectre changed the way we think about security boundaries on the web. It quickly became clear that flaws in modern processors undermined the guarantees that web browsers could make about preventing data

[Android]
Creating custom Tiles on Wear OS by Google with the Jetpack Tiles library
Posted by Jolanda Verhoef, Developer Relations Engineer We introduced Tiles in 2019, and since then, Tiles have become one of the most helpful and useful features on Wear OS by Google smartwatches. They are fast to access, convenient, and designed to provide users with swipeable access to the

[New York Times]
Meeting… Carrie Price, Lead 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 am a Lead Software

[Google Research]
LEAF: A Learnable Frontend for Audio Classification
Posted by Neil Zeghidour, Research Scientist, Google Research Developing machine learning ML models for audio understanding has seen tremendous progress over the past several years. Leveraging the ability to learn parameters from data, the field has progressively shifted from composite,

[Netflix]
Production Media Management: Transforming Media Workflows by leveraging the Cloud
Written by Anton Margoline, Avinash Dathathri, Devang Shah and Murthy Parthasarathi. Credit to Netflix Studio’s Product, Design, Content Hub Engineering teams along with all of the supporting partner and platform teams.In this post, we will share a behind-the-scenes look at how Netflix delivers

[.NET]
Investigating a Linux CVE with .NET Images
We regularly get contacted for help in managing CVEs in Linux-based .NET images. In fact, we were contacted just this morning about CVE-2021-23840 and CVE-2021-23841. I investigated the CVE for that customer to help them understand their options. It occurred to me that this information would be

[Cloudflare]
Enhancing privacy-focused Web Analytics to better meet your metrics needs
Today, we’re excited to announce the release of three of the most requested features: adding multiple websites to an account, supporting Single-page Applications SPA as well as showing Core Web Vitals in Web Analytics.

[Google Online Security]
Google, HTTPS, and device compatibility
Posted by Ryan Hurst, Product Management, Google Trust ServicesEncryption is a fundamental building block when you’re on a mission to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible with strong security and privacy. This is why a little over four years ago we created Google

[New York Times]
Meeting… Christina Malis, Director of Customer Care 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?Director, Customer Care. I

[Slack]
Migrating Millions of Concurrent Websockets to Envoy
Slack has a global customer base, with millions of simultaneously connected users at peak times. Most of the communication between users involves sending lots of tiny messages to each other. For much of Slack’s history, we’ve used HAProxy as a load balancer for all incoming traffic. Today, we’ll

[Soshace]
Managing Kubernetes using Terraform
Kubernetes has continued in its strive to influence the tech space with its flexibility and portability in container orchestration. And with its continuous strive, there has been an increasing need to connect, configure and manage Kubernetes with other tools and resources of your choice. This has

[GitHub]
Highlights from Git 2.31
The open source Git project just released Git 2.31 with features and bug fixes from 85 contributors, 23 of them new. Last time we caught up with you, Git 2.29 had just been released. Two

[Docker]
Docker Compose: From Local to Amazon ECS
By using cloud platforms, we can take advantage of different resource configurations and compute capacities. However, deploying containerized applications on cloud platforms is proving to be quite challenging, especially for new users who have no expertise on how to use that platform. As each