[Google Research]
Contactless Sleep Sensing in Nest Hub
Posted by Michael Dixon, Software Engineer and Reena Singhal Lee, Product Manager, Google Health People often turn to technology to manage their health and wellbeing, whether it is to record their daily exercise, measure their heart rate, or increasingly, to understand their sleep patterns. Sleep

[Lyft]
ML Feature Serving Infrastructure at Lyft
Image Credit: PixabayBy Vinay Kakade and Shiraz ZamanIntroductionMachine Learning forms the backbone of the Lyft app. Some examples of ML at Lyft include deciding on the optimal way to match drivers and passengers, deciding how to price a ride, distributing coupons and incentives to riders and

[Spotify]
Happy Birthday, Backstage: Spotify’s Biggest Open Source Project Grows Up Fast
TLDR: As Backstage turns one, we’re doubling down on our commitment to the open source project and the community we’re building it with. From Hack Week hunch to CNCF Sandbox Last year, a small team of Spotifiers had a hunch about our homegrown developer portal: if Backstage could help our 1,600+

[Uber]
Uber’s Journey Toward Better Data Culture From First Principles
Data powers Uber Uber has revolutionized how the world moves by powering billions of rides and deliveries connecting millions of riders, businesses, restaurants, drivers, and couriers. At the heart of this massive transportation platform is Big Data and Data Science

[Android]
Boosting developer success on Google Play
Posted by Sameer Samat, VP, Product Management Helping developers build sustainable businesses is a core part of Google Play’s mission. We work with partners every day to understand the challenges they face and help them bring their innovative ideas to life. Getting a new app off the ground and

[Airbnb]
Inside Connect: Supporting Apprentices as an Engineering Leader
The third of a three-part blog series on Connect, an apprenticeship opportunity for aspiring Airbnb software engineers.As an engineering leader with 15+ years of industry experience, I am currently head of engineering for the Marketing Technology Platform at Airbnb. Our goal is to build world-

[OLX]
Cassandra Compaction Trade Offs
Cassandra Compaction Trade-OffsBy Apache Software Foundation — https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/cassandra/logo/cassandra.svg, Apache License 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=25112706Cassandra at OLXAt OLX chat we need to save the user chats for a long time. Like Whatsapp we

[Semaphore CI Engineering]
What is a monorepo? (and Should You Use Them?)
Monorepos can foster rapid development workflows. In this post, we’ll examine if they are the right fit for you and your company. The post What is a monorepo? and Should You Use Them? appeared first on Semaphore.

[Docker]
Docker and CNCF Join Forces for “Container Garage” Event Series
At Docker, we’re constantly trying to engage and connect with developer communities around the world to explore ways we can cross pollinate ideas, share, and learn from each other. Today, we’re thrilled to announce that Docker and the CNCF are joining forces to run a community-led event series

[Deezer]
Women’s Voices — A Product Story
Women’s Voices — A Product StoryOn March 8th, we launched an in-app story to amplify women’s voices.There are Instagram, Snapchat and other social media stories, but what kind of story can Deezer have, you might ask?This is a story with a purpose to celebrate and advocate women behind music and

[Google Online Security]
Announcing the winners of the 2020 GCP VRP Prize
Posted by Harshvardhan Sharma, Information Security Engineer, Google We first announced the GCP VRP Prize in 2019 to encourage security researchers to focus on the security of Google Cloud Platform GCP, in turn helping us make GCP more secure for our users, customers, and the internet at large

[New York Times]
Meeting… Drue Thomas, Senior Product Designer 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 Product Designer

[Kotlin]
Cash App Case Study
Cash App is the easiest way to send money, spend money, save money, and buy cryptocurrency. We believe in providing everyone with access to important financial services so they can fully participate in the economy. The app launched in 2013 as a simple peer-to-peer payment app with 4 mobile

[.NET]
The path to .NET 5 and Blazor WebAssembly with some fun sprinkled in
With the recent release of .NET 5 at .NET Conf 2020, users saw first-hand how to take advantage of the latest web technology using .NET. One extremely interesting announcement was the new release of Blazor WebAssembly. Blazor lets you build interactive web UI wuth C# instead of JavaScript. The

[Android]
Android 12 Developer Preview 2
Posted by Dave Burke, VP of Engineering Last month we shared the first preview of Android 12, an early look at the next version of Android. Today we’re bringing you the next milestone build in this year’s release, with more new features and changes for you to try with your apps. Our program of

[Android]
Android Dev Challenge Finale: Weather app
Posted by Jolanda Verhoef, Developer Relations Engineer Let your creativity shine in the final week of the #AndroidDevChallenge! Last week we asked you to be fast, but for this final week we ask you to bring your 'A' game. Here’s the challenge: Week #4: Weather app 🌤 Create a single-screen

[Pinterest]
Faster Creator Content Distribution at Pinterest
Jiayi Lu | Software Engineer, Creator DistributionAt Pinterest, we are committed to building the best experience for creators to reach and inspire new audiences and for Pinners to easily discover the best ideas for them. We believe more diverse Pin formats and an efficient distribution system

[Discord]
Resources Against Hate and Discrimination Towards the AAPI Community
Over the last year, the AAPI Asian American Pacific Islander community has been experiencing an alarming increase of anti-Asian hate crimes throughout the United States, with a majority of them targeting the elderly. This has increased in recent weeks, with the latest taking the form of a

[Discord]
Discord Welcomes Tomasz Marcinkowski as New CFO
We’re thrilled to announce that Tomasz Tom Marcinkowski has joined Discord as Chief Financial Officer. Tom will lead our financial operations to support Discord’s continued growth.2020 was a pivotal year for Discord — we reached over 140 million monthly active users and exceeded 100M in

[HubSpot]
Inclusivity Is a Design Principle
Words matter, and how we use them matters. According to the Linguistic Society of America , inclusive language “acknowledges diversity, conveys respect to all people, is sensitive to differences, and promotes equal opportunities.” It makes concepts more understandable, copy more readable, and

[Cloudflare]
A deep-dive into Cloudflare’s autonomous edge DDoS protection
Introducing our autonomous DDoS Distributed Denial of Service protection system, globally deployed to all of Cloudflare’s 200+ data centers, and is actively protecting all our customers against DDoS attacks across layers 3 to 7 in the OSI model without requiring any human intervention.