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Top highlight Introducing Lottie Our new open-source tool makes adding animation to native apps a snap. AirbnbEng Fo...

Top highlight React Native at Airbnb In 2016, we took a big bet on React Native. Two years later, we’re ready to sha...

Implementing QUIC protocol against TCP over cellular networks on our apps led to a reduction of 10-30 percent in tail...

Cal Stephens Dec 6 · 5 min read Announcing Lottie 4.0 for iOS A new rendering engine with significant performance ...

Top highlight Introducing Lottie Our new open-source tool makes adding animation to native apps a snap. AirbnbEng Fo...

POSTED ON AUGUST 11, 2021 TO OPEN SOURCE, PRODUCTION ENGINEERING Open-sourcing a more precise time appliance By Ahmad...

Tweet 523 Share 1K Share Vote 1 Reddit 230 WhatsApp 2K SHARES At Uber, real-time analytics allow us to attain busine...

Base Web is a React component library which implements the Base design language to act as a device-agnostic foundatio...

By: John Blair, Netflix Partner Engineering

Today we announced the launch of the new Twitter.com – a project years in the making. Now, we want to go behind the s...

Etsy’s experiment with immutable documentation Posted by Paul-Jean Letourneau on October 10, 2018 Introduction Writ...

How Etsy Manages HTTPS and SSL Certificates for Custom Domains on Pattern Posted by Andy Yaco-Mink and Omar on Januar...

Upgrade your local installation of Git, especially if you are using Git for Windows, or you use Git on a multi-user m...

By Sekwon Choi

Netflix has a program in our Information Security department for quantifying the risk of deliberate (attacker-driven)...

How Etsy Manages HTTPS and SSL Certificates for Custom Domains on Pattern Posted by Andy Yaco-Mink and Omar on Januar...

POSTED ON JULY 22, 2021 TO CORE DATA, DATA INFRASTRUCTURE Migrating Facebook to MySQL 8.0 By Herman Lee, Pradeep Naya...

POSTED ON JULY 9, 2021 TO CORE DATA, DATA INFRASTRUCTURE, PRODUCTION ENGINEERING Ribbon filter: Practically smaller t...

POSTED ON SEPTEMBER 13, 2021 TO ANDROID, CORE DATA Superpack: Pushing the limits of compression in Facebook’s mobile ...

POSTED ON OCTOBER 26, 2021 TO CORE DATA, OPEN SOURCE Kangaroo: A new flash cache optimized for tiny objects By Sathya...

POSTED ON JULY 22, 2021 TO CORE DATA, DATA INFRASTRUCTURE Migrating Facebook to MySQL 8.0 By Herman Lee, Pradeep Naya...

POSTED ON AUGUST 11, 2021 TO OPEN SOURCE, PRODUCTION ENGINEERING Open-sourcing a more precise time appliance By Ahmad...

POSTED ON OCTOBER 5, 2021 TO NETWORKING & TRAFFIC More details about the October 4 outage By Santosh Janardhan Now t...

POSTED ON APRIL 5, 2021 TO ML APPLICATIONS, NETWORKING & TRAFFIC, VIDEO ENGINEERING How Facebook encodes your videos ...

Top highlight React Native at Airbnb In 2016, we took a big bet on React Native. Two years later, we’re ready to sha...

By David Henry & Mel Yahya

By Liwei Guo, Vivian Li, Julie Beckley, Venkatesh Selvaraj, and Jeff Watts

POSTED ON SEPTEMBER 13, 2021 TO ANDROID, CORE DATA Superpack: Pushing the limits of compression in Facebook’s mobile ...

Top highlight React Native at Airbnb In 2016, we took a big bet on React Native. Two years later, we’re ready to sha...

By David Henry & Mel Yahya

When LinkedIn launched its simplified iPhone app last August, one of the defining features was its new navigation sys...

Messaging Sync — Scaling Mobile Messaging at Airbnb Zhiyao Wang Follow Apr 30, 2017 · 5 min read By Zhiyao Wang , ...

Ready to take an Uber ride with Slack?

The App Size Problem Uber’s iOS mobile Apps for Rider, Driver, and Eats are large in size. The choice of Swift as our...

API gateways are an integral part of microservices architecture in recent years. An API gateway provides a single poi...

We've officially opened our API to all developers with access to many of the primitives that power Uber’s magical exp...

Tweet 523 Share 1K Share Vote 1 Reddit 230 WhatsApp 2K SHARES At Uber, real-time analytics allow us to attain busine...

By Megan Parker and Sam Wheating Apache Airflow is an orchestration platform that enables development, scheduling an...

Written in Haskell, Queryparser is Uber Engineering's open source tool for parsing and analyzing SQL queries that mak...

Tweet 568 Share Share Vote 1 Reddit 41 WhatsApp 610 SHARES Uber is committed to delivering safer and more reliable t...

POSTED ON APRIL 5, 2021 TO ML APPLICATIONS, NETWORKING & TRAFFIC, VIDEO ENGINEERING How Facebook encodes your videos ...

We’ve just open sourced Pedalboard, Spotify’s framework for adding effects to audio in Python. Pedalboard makes it ea...

In October 2020, we heard feedback from people on Twitter that our image cropping algorithm didn’t serve all people e...

Tweet 923 Share Share Vote 3 Reddit 404 WhatsApp 1K SHARES Over the last decade, deep learning models have proven hi...

POSTED ON APRIL 5, 2021 TO ML APPLICATIONS, NETWORKING & TRAFFIC, VIDEO ENGINEERING How Facebook encodes your videos ...

We’ve just open sourced Pedalboard, Spotify’s framework for adding effects to audio in Python. Pedalboard makes it ea...

In October 2020, we heard feedback from people on Twitter that our image cropping algorithm didn’t serve all people e...

By Stanislav Kirdey, William High

We Invite Everyone at Etsy to Do an Engineering Rotation: Here’s why Posted by Dan Miller on December 22, 2014 At E...

Blameless PostMortems and a Just Culture Posted by John Allspaw on May 22, 2012 Last week, Owen Thomas wrote a flat...

Leveling Up Your Organization With System Reviews Posted by John Goulah on December 21, 2015 One of Etsy’s core eng...

Engineering Career Development at Etsy Posted by Ryan Bateman on October 2, 2019 In late May of 2018, Etsy internal...

By Megan Parker and Sam Wheating Apache Airflow is an orchestration platform that enables development, scheduling an...

On February 24, 2021, Shipit!, our monthly event series, presented Making Commerce Extensible with WebAssembly. The v...

Ruby on Rails is a web framework that contains many libraries you’d need to create and deploy a successful web applic...

Shopify is continuing to invest on Ruby on Rails at scale. We’ve taken that further recently by funding high-profile ...

By Megan Parker and Sam Wheating Apache Airflow is an orchestration platform that enables development, scheduling an...

Shipping a new product is hard. Doing so under tight time constraints is even harder. It’s no different for data-cent...

By Jodi Sloan and Selina Li Over 2 million users visit Shopify’s Help Center every month to find help solving a prob...

By Stanislav Kirdey, William High

We’ve just open sourced Pedalboard, Spotify’s framework for adding effects to audio in Python. Pedalboard makes it ea...

In this post we’ll discuss how Spotify optimized and sped up elements from our largest Dataflow job, Wrapped 2019, fo...

On November 25, 2020 we held ShipIt! Presents: The State of Ruby Static Typing at Shopify. The video of the event is ...

On November 25, 2020 we held ShipIt! Presents: The State of Ruby Static Typing at Shopify. The video of the event is ...

Motivation for a Better Go Profiler Golang is the lifeblood of thousands of Uber’s back-end services, running on mill...

Uber’s backend is an exemplar of microservice architecture. Each microservice is a small, individually deployable pro...

Today we announced the launch of the new Twitter.com – a project years in the making. Now, we want to go behind the s...

Demystifying My GraphQL Summit Talk

How Airbnb ships features faster across web, iOS, and Android using a server-driven UI system named Ghost Platform 👻.

To understand the impact of a component-based design and how it enables us to develop faster on the Twitter web codeb...

Tweet 923 Share Share Vote 3 Reddit 404 WhatsApp 1K SHARES Over the last decade, deep learning models have proven hi...

Tweet 387 Share Share Vote 2 Reddit 2 WhatsApp 391 SHARES This article is the first in a series dedicated to explain...

Developed by Uber AI Labs, Generative Teaching Networks (GTNs) automatically generate training data, learning environ...

Uber built Michelangelo, our machine learning platform, in 2015. Three years later, we reflect our journey to scaling...

The Shopify CLI (command line interface) is an essential tool for developers when building and deploying Themes, Apps...

A development plan helps everyone aim for and achieve their long-term goals in an intentional manner. Wherever you ar...

Uber's Software Engineer Apprentice Program gives developers with non-traditional paths to programming an opportunity...

The beginning stages of a career in engineering can be daunting. You’re trying to make the most of the opportunity at...