[Google Research]
Leveraging Machine Learning for Game Development
Posted by Ji Hun Kim and Richard Wu, Software Engineers, Stadia Over the years, online multiplayer games have exploded in popularity, captivating millions of players across the world. This popularity has also exponentially increased demands on game designers, as players expect games to be well-

[Cloudflare]
Moving k8s communication to gRPC
How we use gRPC in combination with Kubernetes to improve the performance and usability of internal APIs.

[Cloudflare]
Random Employee Chats at Cloudflare
We developed the Random Employee Chats application internally, with the goal of recreating the pre-pandemic informal interactions. Here's how we moved from a shared spreadsheet to Cloudflare Workers to automate the entire process.

[Cloudflare]
Welcome to Cloudflare Security Week 2021!
Today kicks off Cloudflare's 2021 Security Week. Like all innovation weeks at Cloudflare, we'll be announcing a dizzying number of new products, opening products that have been in beta to general availability.

[Cloudflare]
Announcing Network On-ramp Partners for Cloudflare One
We know the promise of replacing MPLS links with a global, secure, performant and observable network is going to transform the corporate network and the industry itself.

[Cloudflare]
Magic WAN & Magic Firewall: secure network connectivity as a service
Magic WAN provides secure, performant connectivity and routing for your entire corporate network, reducing cost and operational complexity.

[BBC]
Quality engineering for a shared codebase.
IntroductionThe BBC is developing a shared platform for building its digital products to reduce development complexity and duplication as much as possible. The aim being to enable quicker and more efficient software development processes resulting in quicker delivery of digital content to our

[Netflix]
Scaling Revenue & Growth Tooling
Written by Nick Tomlin, Michael Possumato, and Rahul Pilani.This post shares how the Revenue & Growth Tools RGT team approaches creating full-stack tools for the teams that are the financial backbone of Netflix. Our primary partners are the teams of Revenue and Growth Engineering RGE: Growth,

[New York Times]
Meeting… Charity Garcia, 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 Software Engineer on

[.NET]
Cloud-Native learning resources for .NET developers
Today, users are demanding responsiveness, the latest and greatest features, and zero downtime from their applications. Businesses are rapidly adopting the cloud’s power to meet user demand, increase scalability and availability of applications. However, to fully embrace the cloud and optimize

[Cloudflare]
Browser Isolation for teams of all sizes
Protecting endpoints from browser-born zero-day attacks and malware with remote browser isolation is now easy for teams of any size.

[Cloudflare]
Anatomy of a Targeted Ransomware Attack
Imagine your most critical systems suddenly stop operating. And then someone demands a ransom to get your systems working again. Or someone launches a DDoS against you and demands a ransom to make it stop. That’s the world of ransomware and ransom DDoS.

[Cloudflare]
Announcing antivirus in Cloudflare Gateway
We’re announcing support for malware detection and prevention directly from the Cloudflare edge, giving Gateway users an additional line of defense against security threats.

[Cloudflare]
New device security partnerships for Cloudflare One
Cloudflare launches new integrations with CrowdStrike, SentinelOne, and VMware Carbon Black. Cloudflare for Teams customers can now restrict access to their applications based on security signals from their devices.

[Docker]
Advanced Image Management in Docker Hub
We are excited to announce the latest feature for Docker Pro and Team users, our new Advanced Image Management Dashboard available on Docker Hub. The new dashboard provides developers with a new level of access to all of the content you have stored in Docker Hub providing you with more fine

[Google Research]
Progress and Challenges in Long-Form Open-Domain Question Answering
Posted by Aurko Roy, Research Scientist, Google Research Open-domain long-form question answering LFQA is a fundamental challenge in natural language processing NLP that involves retrieving documents relevant to a given question and using them to generate an elaborate paragraph-length answer

[OpenDNS]
Cisco launches new Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) data centers in Northern Europe for security customers
Cisco Umbrella recently added new data centers to serve customers in Denmark and Sweden and we could not be more excited! When selecting data center locations, we look at several criteria, including the number of users in that region and the transit and peering options that define our ability to

[Spotify]
Why You Should Pair with Non-Engineers
TL;DR Spotify encourages engineers to become T-shaped and lean into technologies and skill sets outside of their core specialization. Being a T-shaped developer doesn’t always mean having to learn more code, additional languages, or frameworks. It can be about broadening your outlook on the

[Bootstrap.com]
Bootstrap 5 Beta 3
Our final beta for Bootstrap 5 has come with some amazing new changes, including a new component!, documentation updates, and more. We’ve also fixed some important bugs since our last release, in particular with our dependencies. Next up is our stable release! Keep reading for a recap of what’s

[Android]
High Performance Game Audio with Oboe
Posted by Dan Galpin We've added the Oboe C++ audio library to the Android Game SDK. Oboe's support of high-performance, low-latency audio across the widest range of Android devices is the right choice for most game developers. Single API On Android devices running Android 8.1 API level 27 and

[Etsy]
How We Built A Context-Specific Bidding System for Etsy Ads
Etsy Ads is an on-site advertising product that gives Etsy sellers the opportunity to promote their handcrafted goods to buyers across our website and mobile apps. Sellers who participate in the Etsy Ads program are acting as bidders in an automated, real-time auction that allows their listings