Awesome Tech Blogs Update #1 August 17th, 2023.
In the ever-evolving world of engineering, EngiMesh keeps you updated. This week, we've got fresh insights from industry leaders like Uber, Meta, Spotify, DropBox, and more. Dive into this week's standout.
🤩 Top 5 Handpick Contents
Scaling the Instagram Explore recommendations system By Meta — 09 August 2023 [Machine Learning]
How we reduced the size of our JavaScript bundles by 33% By DropBox — 16 August 2023 [JavaScript]
Coming Soon: Confidence — An Experimentation Platform By Spotify — 03 August 2023 [Data, Platform]
Creating One Identity: Building The Framework For One Key By Expedia — 10 August 2023 [SWE, Authentication]
Secure by design: Tips and benefits for app developers By Atlassian — 10 August 2023 [Security, SWE]
That's the spotlight on our top picks for this edition ✨. But the world of engineering doesn't stop there! Below, dive into a treasure trove of more articles, insights, and updates from the industry 📚. Happy exploring! 🚀
✍️ +60 More to Discover
STUDY: Socially aware temporally causal decoder recommender systems By AI Google — 15 August 2023
Advances in document understanding By AI Google — 09 August 2023
AdaTape: Foundation model with adaptive computation and dynamic read-and-write By AI Google — 08 August 2023
Multimodal medical AI By AI Google — 03 August 2023
How SeatGeek uses AWS Serverless to control authorization, authentication, and rate-limiting in a multi-tenant SaaS application By AWS Architecture — 14 August 2023
Use a reusable ETL framework in your AWS lake house architecture By AWS Architecture — 11 August 2023
How Thomson Reuters monitors and tracks AWS Health alerts at scale By AWS Architecture — 09 August 2023
Build a serverless retail solution for endless aisle on AWS By AWS Architecture — 07 August 2023
Let’s Architect! Resiliency in architectures By AWS Architecture — 02 August 2023
Code Campfire Series: From Business Student to Marketplace Business Owner By Atlassian — 14 August 2023 [Engineering]
“It really does take the DevOps stuff out”: How Forge transformed a popular custom field app By Atlassian — 09 August 2023 [Engineering]
Onward to Launch: How a New Marketplace Partner Went From Idea to App in Two Months By Atlassian — 04 August 2023 [Engineering]
Leveraging The Powers of Functional Code — Part 2 By Booking — 03 August 2023 [development]
GPU-powered Kubernetes clusters By Bumble — 04 August 2023 [Nvidia, Gpu]
Pandas DataFrame: How to concatenate with Python examples By CapitalOne — 15 August 2023 [Open Source]
Why Google HEART framework? Definitions, reliability & value By CapitalOne — 08 August 2023 [Software Engineering]
Enterprise testing: Challenges, benefits and best practices By CapitalOne — 03 August 2023 [Software Engineering]
PyCon 2023: What I learned from the Python community By CapitalOne — 02 August 2023 [Culture]
Introducing Cloudflare's 2023 phishing threats report By Cloudflare — 16 August 2023 [Engineering]
Debug Queues from the dash: send, list, and ack messages By Cloudflare — 11 August 2023 [Internship Experience, Queues]
Introducing per hostname TLS settings — security fit to your needs By Cloudflare — 09 August 2023 [Security, SSL]
Project Cybersafe Schools: Bringing security tools for free to small K-12 school districts in the US By Cloudflare — 08 August 2023 [USA, Education]
Unmasking the top exploited vulnerabilities of 2022 By Cloudflare — 04 August 2023 [WAF, Security]
Integrate Cloudflare Zero Trust with Datadog Cloud SIEM By Cloudflare — 03 August 2023 [Datadog, Logs]
Hardening Workers KV By Cloudflare — 02 August 2023 [Cloudflare Workers, Workers-KV]
Cloudflare Workers database integration with Upstash By Cloudflare — 02 August 2023 [Cloudflare Workers, Upstash]
How Let’s Encrypt Powers Confluent Cloud to Automate Its Certificate Operations By Confluent — 10 August 2023 [Technology, Confluent]
The Importance of Standardized Hashing Across Producers By Confluent — 03 August 2023 [Technology, Apache Kafka]
Delta UniForm: a universal format for lakehouse interoperability By Databricks Engineering — 14 August 2023 [engineering]
Multiple Stateful Operators in Structured Streaming By Databricks Engineering — 07 August 2023 [engineering, data-engineering]
Encryption for Voice and Video on Discord By Discord — 11 August 2023 [Engineering & Developers]
Accelerating Machine Learning with TensorFlow.js: Using Pretrained Models and Docker By Docker — 17 August 2023 [AI/ML]
5 Benefits of a Container-First Approach to Software Development By Docker — 14 August 2023 [containers, developers]
Container Security and Why It Matters By Docker — 09 August 2023 [Container Security, containers, Docker Scout]
Sentiment Analysis and Insights on Cryptocurrencies Using Docker and Containerized AI/ML Models By Docker — 09 August 2023 [AI/ML, containers, Docker Use Case]
Memgraph Docker Extension: Empowering Real-Time Analytics with High Performance By Docker — 04 August 2023 [Docker Extensions, Docker Hub]
Protecting Secrets with Docker By Docker — 03 August 2023 [Docker Hub, Docker Scout]
Improve Docker Compose Modularity with `include` By Docker — 01 August 2023 [Docker Compose]
BPFAgent: eBPF for Monitoring at DoorDash By DoorDash — 15 August 2023 [Backend]
Merging Code Quickly and Safely in a Monorepo By Expedia — 08 August 2023 [Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery]
GitHub Availability Report: July 2023 By Github — 09 August 2023 [Engineering]
Introducing code referencing for GitHub Copilot By Github — 03 August 2023 [Engineering]
How we build containerized services at GitHub using GitHub By Github — 02 August 2023 [Engineering]
Career Stories: Building community and connections By Linkedin — 03 August 2023
Announcing Our LinkedIn-Cornell 2023 Grant Recipients By Linkedin — 02 August 2023
Introducing Immortal Objects for Python By Meta — 15 August 2023 [DevInfra]
How Meta is improving password security and preserving privacy By Meta — 08 August 2023 [Security]
Fixit 2: Meta’s next-generation auto-fixing linter By Meta — 07 August 2023 [DevInfra]
Using short-lived certificates to protect TLS secrets By Meta — 07 August 2023 [Production Engineering]
Into the Omniverse: Reallusion Elevates Character Animation Workflows With Two-Way Live Sync and OpenUSD Support By Nvidia — 16 August 2023 [Into the Omniverse, Omniverse]
Best-in-Class is in Session: New NVIDIA Studio Laptops Supercharge Content, Gaming and Education By Nvidia — 15 August 2023 [3D, Art]
Strength in Numbers: NVIDIA and Generative Red Team Challenge Unleash Thousands to Vet Security at DEF CON By Nvidia — 10 August 2023 [Def Con, Events]
Generative AI Revs Up New Age in Auto Industry, From Design and Engineering to Production and Sales By Nvidia — 09 August 2023 [NVIDIA NEMO, NVIDIA Picasso]
Visual Effects Multiplier: Wylie Co. Goes All in on GPU Rendering for 24x Returns By Nvidia — 09 August 2023 [Energy efficiency, GPU]
SIGGRAPH Special Address: NVIDIA CEO Brings Generative AI to LA Show By Nvidia — 08 August 2023 [SIGGRAPH]
Startup Pens Generative AI Success Story With NVIDIA NeMo By Nvidia — 08 August 2023 [Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Services]
Shutterstock Brings Generative AI to 3D Scene Backgrounds With NVIDIA Picasso By Nvidia — 08 August 2023 [3D, Artificial Intelligence]
A Textured Approach: NVIDIA Research Shows How Gen AI Helps Create and Edit Photorealistic Materials By Nvidia — 08 August 2023 [3D, Artificial Intelligence]
Create the engineering career you love at Pinterest By Pinterest — 03 August 2023 [Pinterest, Engineering, Culture]
What it’s really like to head into the virtual office By SkyScanner — 09 August 2023 [Virtual Office, Collaboration, Tech]
Experimentation at Spotify: Three Lessons for Maximizing Impact in Innovation By Spotify — 16 August 2023 [Data, Data Science]
How To Measure the Value of Internal Tools By SquareUp — 02 August 2023 [Tools, Data Science]
Dynamic Executor Core Resizing in Spark By Uber — 10 August 2023 [Engineering, Data / ML]
The Transformative Power of Generative AI in Software Development: Lessons from Uber’s Tech-Wide Hackathon By Uber — 03 August 2023 [Engineering, AI]
Sunrise: Zalando's developer platform based on Backstage By Zalando — 03 August 2023 [Open Source, Platform Engineering, Productivity]
🎬️ Watch/Listen
Where Thousands Of Tech Workers Went After Mass Layoffs By CNBC — Youtube
Talking to Smart AI NPCs in Unreal Engine 5 (The Future of Gaming & Artificial Intelligence) By TmarTn2 — Youtube
🧠 Legacy Lines
Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.
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Hal Abelson, co-author of "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs"
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