[Kotlin]
Kotlin Plugin 2021.1 Released: Improved IDE Performance and Better Support for Refactorings
The newest release of IntelliJ IDEA, version 2021.1, comes with the improved Kotlin plugin. Enjoy an improved developer experience with faster code completion and highlighting, change signatures with better IDE support, benefit from better debugging experience for evaluating properties, and more

[Docker]
Get Involved with Docker
Every day, hundreds of passionate Docker users around the world contribute to Docker. Whether you are just getting started or are an expert in your field, there are many ways to get involved and start contributing to Docker. If you’re into technical writing, you can easily publish and/or edit

[Cloudflare]
Jonathon Dixon: Why I joined Cloudflare
I’m excited to announce that on March 1st, I joined Cloudflare as Vice President and GM, Asia Pacific including Japan and Greater China to help build and expand Cloudflare’s growing customer and partner base and presence in the region.

[Google Research]
Announcing the 2021 Research Scholar Program Recipients
Posted by Negar Saei, Program Manager, University Relations In March 2020 we introduced the Research Scholar Program, an effort focused on developing collaborations with new professors and encouraging the formation of long-term relationships with the academic community. In November we opened the

[Zendesk(old)]
Creating Zendesk Tickets using events from Amazon EventBridge
Written by David Hall, published by Zendesk DevelopersAmazon EventBridge API Destinations allow you to use events from selected AWS services or SaaS partners to make API calls. EventBridge simplifies the process of authenticating with your chosen API, and transforming the event data into the

[Cloudflare]
Dynamic URL Rewriting at the edge with Cloudflare
Today we are announcing the immediate availability of Transform Rules for all Cloudflare plans. Transform Rules provide Cloudflare administrators with the ability to create URL rewrite rules.

[HubSpot]
How to Learn Complex Things Quickly: A Guide
In my 20+ years as a software engineer, I’ve constantly been asked or expected to learn complex things. In his book Deep Work, when talking about the knowledge economy, author Cal Newport writes, “If you can’t learn, you can’t thrive.” New languages and platforms are launched, projects get new

[Semaphore CI Engineering]
Talking Simplicity and Purpose in Software on New Relic’s Podcast
I had an honor to speak on New Relic’s podcast Observy McObservface with Jonan Scheffler. We discussed: The shipping mindset as championed by the Ruby on Rails community Optimizing for

[Kotlin]
How Do You Use Stack Overflow? The Kotlin Community Survey
Stack Overflow is an essential resource when it comes to learning something new about programming. It is easily searchable, used by millions of people, and extremely popular in the software engineering community. During the Kotlin Census 2020, 55% of respondents mentioned Stack Overflow as a

[Docker]
Changing How Updates Work with Docker Desktop 3.3
Today we are pleased to announce the release of Docker Desktop 3.3. We’ve been listening to your feedback on our Public Roadmap and we are consistently asked for three things: smaller downloads, more flexible installation options, and more frequent feature releases, bug fixes, and security

[Pinterest]
Scaling Kubernetes with Assurance at Pinterest
Anson Qian| Software Engineer, Cloud RuntimeIntroductionIt has been more than a year since we shared our Kubernetes Journey at Pinterest. Since then, we have delivered many features to facilitate customer adoption, ensure reliability and scalability, and build up operational experience and best

[.NET]
Announcing .NET 6 Preview 3
Today, we are delighted to release .NET 6 Preview 3. This release is dedicated almost entirely to low-level performance features. These are the types of improvements that many folks don’t necessarily always fully appreciate, but they help a lot for many apps. The post Announcing .NET 6 Preview 3

[.NET]
ML.NET Survey: Machine Learning in .NET
Every year we conduct a survey to gather feedback on pain points and feature requests that help shape the direction of Machine Learning in .NET. This past year we have made major improvements to ML.NET tooling and APIs, and now we’re investigating new areas to improve and grow, The post ML.NET

[Cloudflare]
Per Origin Host Header Override
Load Balancing as a concept is pretty straightforward. Take an existing infrastructure and route requests to the available origin servers so no single server is overwhelmed. Add in some health monitoring to ensure each server has a heartbeat/pulse so proactive decisions can be made.

[Ebay]
eBay Launches Targeted Auto Retry
eBay’s open source Swift package provides powerful resilience against flaky test steps.

[HubSpot]
Name Dropping: Dea Mandery, Senior Director of Agile Coaching, Hudl
Name Dropping is a Q&A series that aims to elevate the stories of women and nonbinary people leading in the tech space. The idea came from Angela DeFranco, a VP of Product at HubSpot, who said one way to be better allies is to name drop more women and nonbinary people in discussions of

[Google Research]
Monster Mash: A Sketch-Based Tool for Casual 3D Modeling and Animation
Posted by Cassidy Curtis, Visual Designer and David Salesin, Principal Scientist, Google Research 3D computer animation is a time-consuming and highly technical medium — to complete even a single animated scene requires numerous steps, like modeling, rigging and animating, each of which is itself

[.NET]
Show dotnet: Animating 40 LEDs with charlieplexing
For Pi day 2021, I published a fun post on how to Blink LEDs with Raspberry Pi. As part of that writeup, I wanted to include a 40 LED charlieplexing example, but couldn’t get it working. It is working now, and I decided to do a follow-up post to show it to you. The post Show dotnet: Animating 40

[.NET]
Announcing .NET Multi-platform App UI Preview 3
With .NET 6 Preview 3 we are shipping the latest progress for mobile and desktop development with .NET Multi-platform App UI. This release adds the Windows platform with WinUI 3, improves the base application and startup builder, adds native lifecycle events, The post Announcing .NET Multi-

[Uber]
Flipr: Making Changes Quickly and Safely at Scale
Introduction Uber’s many software systems require a high volume of changes every day. Because of our systems’ size and complexity, it is a significant challenge to implement these changes without unintended consequences, ultimately slowing down developer productivity. Flipr is a

[Airbnb]
Achieving Insights and Savings with Cost Data
The path to cloud efficiency begins with a cost data foundationby Anna Matlin and Tamar EtermanIntroductionBusiness profitability and sustainability are powerful reasons to invest in infrastructure efficiency, but it is easy to feel lost about how to actually reduce costs. A foundation of robust