BlogFlockAuthors: Nilesh Mishra and Ajit Koti
This is the third entry of a multi-part blog series describing how we built a Real-Time Distributed Graph (RDG). In Part 1, we discussed…
If you’ve used slash commands in the GitHub Copilot CLI, you already know how powerful a quick / can be. In the GitHub Copilot app, slash commands take that idea further, giving you shortcuts for managing sessions, navigating projects, and customizing your Copilot workflow.
Slash commands…
A compromised package can steal credentials the moment you install it, and until recently, GitHub could only flag those in npm. Not anymore. This is the story of how the supply chain engineering team behind Dependabot expanded malware advisories to eight ecosystems by building on OpenSSF’s shared malicious packages data.
Every day, Meta’s recommendation platforms handle billions of user interactions, generating rich temporal signals that capture individual preferences and intent across products, ads, and content. In our 2024 post on sequence learning for ads recommendations, we showed how modeling the order and timing of user actions (rather than…
Whether you are just starting out or are not in a technical role at all, you likely already have the skills you need to build your own tools. If you have ever thought “I’m not technical enough to build that,” this post is for you.
Let me introduce the team.…
Think about the last big feature you shipped. Be honest. Did you cram it into one giant pull request, or did you split it into smaller scoped pull requests? For years, you have silently had to decide between watching a pull request grow so large that reviewing it becomes a…
by Aarti Laddha, Richard Diaz-Cool, Rishika Idnani, Venkatesh Selveraj
Netflix supports a vast and evolving set of features and content types, ranging from 4K streaming and immersive audio to live streaming and cloud gaming, across a diverse ecosystem of devices. However, not all devices are created equal.…
Suppose a user searches for café and your corpus contains CAFÉ, or they type straße and you’ve stored STRASSE. To make these count as matches, you need a canonical form that erases case distinctions, so that two strings which differ only in case compare equal. That form is case folding,…
Etsy is home to over 100 million listings from 5.6 million active sellers. Because the items for sale are unique and creative, there is no standard product catalog that tells us what they are. When someone searches for “light linen dress for summer,” our models must infer what the shopper…
Nextdoor is the neighborhood hub for trusted connections and the exchange of helpful information, goods, and services. We believe that by bringing neighbors together, we can cultivate a kinder world where everyone has a neighborhood they can rely on. - Medium
Updates, ideas, and inspiration from GitHub to help developers build and design software.
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Updates on changes and additions to the Google Developers Blog.
The engineers who make Etsy make our living with a craft we love: software. This is where we'll write about our craft and our collective experience building and running the world's most vibrant handmade marketplace.