Engineering News Feed
Curated daily updates from Netflix, Meta, LinkedIn, Uber, Airbnb, Discord, Cloudflare, and GitHub. Stories are grouped into Web Engineering, Cloud/DevOps, AI/ML, Security, Data Systems, and Infrastructure.
Kimi K2.5 is now on Workers AI, helping you power agents entirely on Cloudflare’s Developer Platform. Learn how we optimized our inference stack and reduced inference costs for internal agent use cases.
Read OriginalAs contribution volume grows, mentorship signals are harder to read. The 3 Cs framework helps maintainers mentor more strategically... without burning out. The post Rethinking open source mentorship in the AI era appeared first on The GitHub Blog .
Read OriginalAn inside look at repository-native orchestration with GitHub Copilot and the design patterns behind multi-agent workflows that stay inspectable, predictable, and collaborative. The post How Squad runs coordinated AI agents inside your repository appeared first on The GitHub Blog .
Read OriginalFriend bubbles in Facebook Reels highlight Reels your friends have liked or reacted to, helping you discover new content and making it easier to connect over shared interests. This article explains the technical architecture behind friend bubbles, including how machine learning estimates relationship strength and ranks
Read OriginalWe are expanding Regional Services with new pre-defined regions and the launch of Custom Regions. Customers can now define precise geographical boundaries for data processing, tailored to meet their compliance and performance needs.
Read OriginalMeta’s Ranking Engineer Agent (REA) autonomously executes key steps across the end-to-end machine learning (ML) lifecycle for ads ranking models. This post covers REA’s ML experimentation capabilities: autonomously generating hypotheses, launching training jobs, debugging failures, and iterating on results. Future post
Read OriginalHow a complex, large-scale migration to an in-house observability platform led to superior tooling, consistent data, and a fundamental reset of the developer experience. By: Callum Jones , Rong Hu Observability — the function of providing visibility into the performance and reliability of applications using metrics, lo
Read OriginalSee how GitHub is investing in open source security funding maintainers, partnering with Alpha-Omega, and expanding access to help reduce burden and strengthen software supply chains. The post Investing in the people shaping open source and securing the future together appeared first on The GitHub Blog .
Read OriginalEven seemingly simple engineering tasks — like updating an API — can become monumental undertakings when you’re dealing with millions of lines of code and thousands of engineers, especially if the changes are security-related. Nowhere is this more apparent than in mobile security, where a single class of vulnerab
Read OriginalHow we built a destination recommendation model that helps users spark inspiration and narrow down choices to make journeys smoother. By: Weiwei Guo , Bin Xu , Sundara Rajan Srinivasavaradhan , Jie Tang , Xiaowei Liu , Bharathi Thangamani , Liwei He , Huiji Gao , Tracy Yu , Hui Gao , Stephanie Moyerman , Sanjeev Katari
Read OriginalAI automates triage for accessibility feedback, allowing us to focus on fixing barriers—turning a chaotic backlog into continuous, rapid resolutions. The post Continuous AI for accessibility: How GitHub transforms feedback into inclusion appeared first on The GitHub Blog .
Read OriginalBlocking bots isn’t enough anymore. Cloudflare’s new fraud prevention capabilities — now available in Early Access — help stop account abuse before it starts.
Read OriginalIn February, we experienced six incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services. The post GitHub availability report: February 2026 appeared first on The GitHub Blog .
Read OriginalGitHub recently experienced several availability incidents. We understand the impact these outages have on our customers and are sharing details on the stabilization work we’re prioritizing right now. The post Addressing GitHub’s recent availability issues appeared first on The GitHub Blog .
Read OriginalCloudflare now returns RFC 9457-compliant structured Markdown and JSON error payloads to AI agents, replacing heavyweight HTML pages with machine-readable instructions. This reduces token usage by over 98%, turning brittle parsing into efficient control flow.
Read OriginalCloudflare AI Security for Apps is now generally available, providing a security layer to discover and protect AI-powered applications, regardless of the model or hosting provider. We are also making AI discovery free for all plans, to help teams find and secure shadow AI deployments.
Read OriginalAI is shifting from prompt-response interactions to programmable execution. See how the GitHub Copilot SDK enables agentic workflows directly inside your applications. The post The era of “AI as text” is over. Execution is the new interface. appeared first on The GitHub Blog .
Read OriginalWe’re sharing the technical details behind how Advanced Browsing Protection (ABP) in Messenger protects the privacy of the links clicked on within chats while still warning people about malicious links. We hope that this post has helped to illuminate some of the engineering challenges and infrastructure components invo
Read OriginalGitHub Agentic Workflows are built with isolation, constrained outputs, and comprehensive logging. Learn how our threat model and security architecture help teams run agents safely in GitHub Actions. The post Under the hood: Security architecture of GitHub Agentic Workflows appeared first on The GitHub Blog .
Read OriginalCloudflare’s new Web and API Vulnerability Scanner helps teams proactively find logic flaws. By using AI to build API call graphs, we identify vulnerabilities that standard defensive tools miss.
Read OriginalGitHub Security Lab Taskflow Agent is very effective at finding Auth Bypasses, IDORs, Token Leaks, and other high-impact vulnerabilities. The post How to scan for vulnerabilities with GitHub Security Lab’s open source AI-powered framework appeared first on The GitHub Blog .
Read OriginalValentin Geffrier , Tanguy Cornuau Each year, we bring the Analytics Engineering community together for an Analytics Summit — a multi-day internal conference to share analytical deliverables across Netflix, discuss analytic practice, and build relationships within the community. This post is one of several topics prese
Read OriginalHow we changed our Observability as Code alert review process and cut development cycles from weeks to minutes. Observability as Code (OaC) — defining alerts, dashboards, and SLOs via code rather than UI — is table stakes for large engineering organizations. With OaC, observability adopts software development’s version
Read OriginalBy Harshad Sane Ranker is one of the largest and most complex services at Netflix. Among many things, it powers the personalized rows you see on the Netflix homepage, and runs at an enormous scale. When we looked at CPU profiles for this service, one feature kept standing out: video serendipity scoring — the logic that
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