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17 Feb

Jennifer Kohl 7 min read

When it comes to building dynamic and real-work solutions, developers need to stitch multiple databases (relational, document, graph, vector, time-series, search) together and build complex API layers to integrate them. This generates significant complexity, cost, and operational risk, and reduces speed of innovation. More often than not, developers end up focusing on building glue code...

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Benjamin Stieger 9 min read

Expedia Group Technology — Data Quickly identifying winning ranking models before committing to A/B tests Authors: Adam Woznica, Benjamin Stieger, and Stefania Ebli Photo by Il Vagabiondo on Unsplash Expedia Group ™ covers a portfolio of brands such as Expedia.com, Hotels.com, and Vrbo, that power lodging searches for millions of travel shoppers every day. In this competitive market matching users…

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Art Anthony 7 min read

In recent months, we’ve been writing extensively about some of the exciting possibilities offered by artificial intelligence and the agentic consumption of APIs, from new routes to monetization via AI through to more efficient workflows. But there are downsides to consider here, too. Large language models (LLMs) have a habit of disregarding the API contract, ...

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From an enterprise resource app owner’s perspective, Cross App Access (XAA) is a game-changer because it allows their resources to be “AI-ready” without compromising on security. In the XAA model, resource apps rely on the enterprise’s Identity Provider (IdP) to manage access. Instead of building out interactive OAuth flows, they defer to the IdP to check enterprise policies and user…

16 Feb

Shawn DeVries 3 min read

This technology platform, called 'Just Walk Out', required over 1,000 workers in India manually reviewing video footage to verify transactions. By 2022, 700 out of every 1,000 sales needed human review. Amazon pulled the technology from their Fresh grocery stores in 2024. They paved the way. But it wasn't sustainable. The problem wasn't the concept. It was the complexity. Grocery…

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Ashraf Eassa 4 min read

The NVIDIA Blackwell platform has been widely adopted by leading inference providers such as Baseten, DeepInfra, Fireworks AI and Together AI to reduce cost per token by up to 10x. Now, the NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra platform is taking this momentum further for agentic AI. AI agents and coding assistants are driving explosive growth in software-programming-related […]

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Jennifer Kohl 3 min read

Ever wanted to run a personal AI assistant that monitors your WhatsApp messages 24/7, but worried about giving it access to your entire system? Docker Sandboxes' new shell sandbox type is the perfect solution. In this post, I'll show you how to run NanoClaw, a lightweight Claude-powered WhatsApp assistant, inside a secure, isolated Docker sandbox....

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Her brother moved with a perfection that made her skin crawl. It was not the gracefulness of the dancer whose...

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LLMs, MCPs, RAG. There are lots of acronyms in the AI space, but what do they all mean? Dear reader, despite being a software engineer who works in the machine learning space, I confess there was a time I wasn’t really sure. Fortunately, with the financial support of Deliveroo’s Women-in-Tech Employee Resource Group, I took the Ardan Labs Building AI-Powered…

15 Feb

13 Feb

Josh Korr 6 min read

Digital transformation always sounds clear in an RFP or slide deck, but in practice things can get fuzzy fast. What exactly are we transforming? Is this about customers, or about ourselves? Are we reshaping workflows, or the entire business model? Without answers to these questions, projects stall, swirl, or never quite get started in the first place. As a Certified…

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Yiwen Xu 7 min read

If you’ve worked with local language models, you’ve probably run into the context window limit, especially when using smaller models on less powerful machines. While it’s an unavoidable constraint, techniques like context packing make it surprisingly manageable. Hello, I’m Philippe, and I am a Principal Solutions Architect helping customers with their usage of Docker. In...

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12 Feb

Kazuaki Okumura,Mike White,Kevin Altschuler,Facundo Agriel,Ishan Mishra,Eric Wang,Dmitriy Meyerzon,Dmitriy Meyerzon,Hicham Badri,Appu Shaji 12 min read

Making products like Dropbox Dash accessible to individuals and businesses means tackling new challenges around efficiency and resource use.

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Jake Archibald 7 min read

The Interop Project is a cross-browser initiative to improve web compatibility in areas that offer the most benefit to both users and developers. The group, including Apple, Google, Igalia, Microsoft, and Mozilla, takes proposals of features that are well defined in a sufficiently stable web standard, and have good test suite coverage. Then, we come […] The post Launching Interop…

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Shruti Koparkar 6 min read

A diagnostic insight in healthcare. A character’s dialogue in an interactive game. An autonomous resolution from a customer service agent. Each of these AI-powered interactions is built on the same unit of intelligence: a token. Scaling these AI interactions requires businesses to consider whether they can afford more tokens. The answer lies in better tokenomics […]

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Max Starubinskiy 5 min read

At leading institutions across the globe, the NVIDIA DGX Spark desktop supercomputer is bringing data‑center‑class AI to lab benches, faculty offices and students’ systems. There’s even a DGX Spark hard at work in the South Pole, at the IceCube Neutrino Observatory run by the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The compact supercomputer’s petaflop‑class performance enables local deployment […]

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GeForce NOW Community 4 min read

The GeForce NOW sixth-anniversary festivities roll on this February, continuing a monthlong celebration of NVIDIA’s cloud gaming service. This week brings even more reasons to join the party, as GeForce NOW launches on a new platform with support for Amazon Fire TV devices, and eight new games to keep the streaming going strong. The new […]

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kevin 1 min read

I read this and then had trouble finding it for a year, I'm writing about it so I have a way to find it... The proposal here is so obviously correct that it's shocking it doesn't come up more often when people discuss the NBA Draft... basically the idea is that you assign a high […]

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Kristopher Sandoval 8 min read

Model Context Protocol (MCP) has made huge waves in the industry as of late. Since MCP makes it incredibly easy to point agentic implementations towards tools and resources, it’s been used for everything from context-driven customer service tools to order fulfillment backends. One of the most interesting use cases, and one that is currently emerging ...

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11 Feb

McKenna Barlow 6 min read

GitHub Copilot testing for .NET is now available in Visual Studio 18.3, offering AI-powered tools to quickly create, build, and run unit tests. With flexible prompts and full IDE integration, it supports testing from single methods to entire solutions, helping reduce repetitive tasks and speed up feedback. Try it and share your feedback to shape its future. The post GitHub…

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WHAT IT IS The rise of agentic software development means code is being written, reviewed, and shipped faster than ever before across the entire industry. It also means that testing frameworks need to evolve for this rapidly changing landscape. Faster development demands faster testing that can catch bugs as they land in a codebase, without [...] Read More... The post…

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Kazuaki Okumura,Mike White,Kevin Altschuler,Facundo Agriel,Ishan Mishra,Eric Wang,Dmitriy Meyerzon,Dmitriy Meyerzon,Hicham Badri,Appu Shaji,Craig Wilhite 4 min read

From Claude Code to Cursor, we're big adopters of AI coding tools at Dropbox. The early results have been promising, but there are still a lot of open questions about how to work with these tools most effectively and where they can have the most impact. To push this conversation forward, we hosted an executive roundtable at our San Francisco…

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Janet Wagner 6 min read

Nothing frustrates a user more than a slow or non-responsive website or application. This is especially true in ecommerce, where slow-loading pages lead to high bounce rates and lower conversion rates. Often, the hidden culprit behind delays is a high-latency API. Many app developers integrate multiple third-party APIs, cumulatively adding more latency. As more APIs ...

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Imagine you are testing a TodoMVC application, and you need to complete all items. You simply click every checkbox and confirm the application preserves the "0 todos left" state. Normally everything goes well: But sometimes a weird thing happens: one or more checkboxes remain unchecked! 📺 Watch the examples in this blog post explained in my video. You start looking…

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At the end of last year, we decided to try something new: a challenge that would run alongside Advent of Code, where we asked the community to show us how they could design hardware to solve the same problems. We had no idea what level of participation to expect, but we received a huge number of submissions, many of which…

10 Feb

Jin Kim 6 min read

Docker Hardened Images are now free, covering Alpine, Debian, and over 1,000 images including databases, runtimes, and message buses. For security teams, this changes the economics of container vulnerability management. DHI includes security fixes from Docker’s security team, which simplifies security response. Platform teams can pull the patched base image and redeploy quickly. But free...

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12 min read

Imagine you built a note-taking app. It’s so successful that LargeCorp, an aptly named large enterprise corporation, signed on as a customer. To make it a power tool for your enterprise customers, you need to allow your app to integrate with other productivity tools, such as turning a note into a task in a to-do app. While common integration patterns…

9 Feb

4 min read

We’re sharing details of the role backend aggregation (BAG) plays in building Meta’s gigawatt-scale AI clusters like Prometheus. BAG allows us to seamlessly connect thousands of GPUs across multiple data centers and regions. Our BAG implementation is connecting two different network fabrics – Disaggregated Schedule Fabric (DSF) and Non-Scheduled Fabric (NSF). Once it’s complete our AI [...] Read More... The…

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When customers hit issues in production, it can be an effort to locally reproduce them, especially when external sources are involved. Reproducing issues is useful not just to figure out the root cause, but also to verify the fix and add a regression test. The newly introduced workload capture & replay tooling records a Materialize instance’s state as well as…

Stephen Blum 1 min read

PubNub Agent Skills make it easy for any AI coding assistant to become a real-time PubNub expert, giving developers six installable skills (via Tessl or Vercel Skills CLI) that provide guided patterns, best practices, and production-ready code for core use cases like pub/sub messaging, presence, serverless functions, security, chat, and large-scale real-time applications.

8 Feb

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He used to understand guilt the way a farmer understands crops. Now he has to use drugs to sleep and drugs to...

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That is the half-life of knowledge in computer science and software engineering - the time it takes for half of what you know to be replaced by better tools, approaches, or understanding. For an engineering degree earned in 1930, the half-life was roughly 35 years. By 1960, it had dropped to about a decade.

7 Feb

Amit Merchant 5 min read

The Laravel team recently released the Laravel AI SDK that provides a simple and elegant way to integrate AI capabilities into your Laravel applications. The SDK offers a clean and intuitive API that allows developers to easily interact with AI models and services. Essentially, the Laravel AI SDK abstracts away the complexities of working with AI models (such as OpenAI,…

6 Feb

MapTiler (Jachym Cepicky) 1 min read

Our latest Geocoding update adds 3.8M+ new business POIs and improves search accuracy for natural landforms and cross-border features; all with zero integration changes.

5 Feb

Dan Berezin Stelzer 4 min read

Open source components power most modern applications. A new generation of hardened container images can establish a more secure foundation, but even with hardened images, vulnerability scanners often return dozens or hundreds of CVEs with little prioritization. This noise slows teams down and complicates security triage. The VEX (Vulnerability Exploitability eXchange) standard addresses the problem...

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Thumbtack People Team 3 min read

A Q&A with Brett Shouse, Senior Software Engineer. As an engineer, what drew you to Thumbtack? I joined Thumbtack in March of 2025, and from day one it’s felt like the right place to grow, build, and make a real impact. I was ready for a fresh challenge and wanted to help evolve a business that truly aligned with my…

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Gabrielė Zakaitienė 6 min read

Work is changing fast – new tools, new ways of teaming up, and new expectations. The skills that got us here won’t always get us where we’re going. At Hostinger, we’re learning… The post Future readiness: Are you hiring for today – or for what’s next? appeared first on Hostinger Blog.

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Kristopher Sandoval 9 min read

Building API-first is an incredibly powerful strategy — it brings a ton of value to organizations seeking to make their data and APIs more consumable, more useful, and more valuable. Interestingly, however, it seems like API-first has another huge benefit: AI-first. So what does it mean to be API-first, and what benefits does this carry ...

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Daisy Mølving 4 min read

This is Part 1 in our blog series on how the design process works alongside Agile methodology to produce results within an integrated team. Updated 2/5/2026. Originally published 2/2/2024 When it comes to developing new software, not every designer approaches the task the same way. While some use a design thinking approach, looking at the tasks from a user perspective,…

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For a long time I was skeptical of LLMs—whenever I reached for them I was disappointed by the results. Last year I tried Copilot and Cursor to tweak a game I’d built, and neither generated working changes. At a previous job I tried Gemini to outline product briefs and generate wireframes, but ended up throwing them all away. Every time…

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GPT‑5.3-Codex is the most capable agentic coding model to date, combining the frontier coding performance of GPT‑5.2-Codex with the reasoning and professional knowledge capabilities of GPT‑5.2.

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4 Feb

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We’re sharing a novel approach to enabling cross-device passkey authentication for devices with inaccessible displays (like XR devices). Our approach bypasses the use of QR codes and enables cross-device authentication without the need for an on-device display, while still complying with all trust and proximity requirements. This approach builds on work done by the FIDO [...] Read More... The post…

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Yiwen Xu 4 min read

We’re excited to announce that the remote Atlassian Rovo MCP server is now available in Docker’s MCP Catalog and Toolkit, making it easier than ever to connect AI assistants to Jira and Confluence. With just a few clicks, technical teams can use their favorite AI agents to create and update Jira issues, epics, and Confluence...

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