Software engineering blogs

2021-02-13 21:02:09 [Soshace]
How To Secure Python Web App Using Bandit
Cybersecurity is a very important aspect of software development. It is a branch of code testing which is integral in the profitability of major tech companies around the world as highlighted in my pr The post How To Secure Python Web App Using Bandit appeared first on Soshace. Open / Comment

2021-02-13 10:02:11 [Docker]
How Developers Can Get Started with Python and Docker
Python started in 1991 with humble beginnings focusing on helping “automate the boring stuff.” But over the past few years, we’ve seen Python grow in popularity and become extremely useful not only for scripting but for building modern web applications, machine learning and data science. The Open / Comment

2021-02-12 21:02:10 [Kotlin]
Kotlin for Apache Spark: One Step Closer to Your Production Cluster
We have released Preview 2 of Kotlin for Apache Spark. First of all, we’d like to thank the community for providing us with all their feedback and even some pull requests! Now let’s take a look at what we have implemented since Preview 1? Scala 2.11 and Spark 2.4.1+ support The main change in Open / Comment

2021-02-12 21:02:10 [Wayfair]
A Dynamic Journey to Performance
Excitement buzzed in the virtual air -- after multiple years of work, we were finally going live! As we ramped up our feature toggle, we were met with words no engineer wants to hear: “Your service isn’t performing fast enough. We need you to toggle off.” Our team quickly pivoted Open / Comment

2021-02-12 10:02:12 [Google Research]
Uncovering Unknown Unknowns in Machine Learning
Posted by Lora Aroyo and Praveen Paritosh, Research Scientists, Google Research The performance of machine learning ML models depends both on the learning algorithms, as well as the data used for training and evaluation. The role of the algorithms is well studied and the focus of a multitude of Open / Comment

2021-02-12 10:02:12 [Google Research]
3D Scene Understanding with TensorFlow 3D
Posted by Alireza Fathi, Research Scientist and Rui Huang, AI Resident, Google Research The growing ubiquity of 3D sensors e.g., Lidar, depth sensing cameras and radar over the last few years has created a need for scene understanding technology that can process the data these devices capture Open / Comment

2021-02-12 10:02:12 [Docker]
Save the Date! Next Docker Community All Hands
We’re excited to announce that our next Community All Hands will be on March 11th, 2021. This quarterly event is a unique opportunity for Docker staff and the broader Docker community to come together for live company updates, product updates, demos, community shout-outs and Q&A. We had more than Open / Comment

2021-02-11 21:02:12 [Android]
Quality to match with your user’s expectations
Posted by Hoi Lam, Android App Quality Since the launch of Android more than 10 years ago, the platform and the user’s expectations have grown. There are improvements from user experience through material design to the importance and advancement in privacy. We know you want your apps to offer a Open / Comment

2021-02-11 21:02:11 [Kotlin]
Down Dog Case Study: Building 500K Subscribers App with KMM
Down Dog is the innovative start up that brings a studio-like yoga experience to your mobile device. With Down Dog you get a brand new yoga routine every time you come to your mat. Unlike following pre-recorded videos, Down Dog won’t make you do the same workout over and over again. With over Open / Comment

2021-02-11 21:02:11 [Spotify]
How Spotify Optimized the Largest Dataflow Job Ever for Wrapped 2020
In this post we’ll discuss how Spotify optimized and sped up elements from our largest Dataflow job, Wrapped 2019, for Wrapped 2020 using a technique called Sort Merge Bucket SMB join. We’ll present the design and implementation of SMB and how we incorporated it into our data pipelines Open / Comment