On its face the new Friend Bubbles feature looks simple enough. It highlights Reels your friends have watched and reacted to. But sometimes the features that seem the most straightforward require the deepest engineering work. On this episode of the Meta Tech Podcast, Pascal Hartig chats with Subasree and Joseph, two software engineers from the Facebook [...] Read More... The…
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13 May
7 May
From finding the perfect expression to showing where you come from: Here's why bilingual people are constantly switching between languages. The post Code-Switching: The Weird And Wonderful Side Of Bilingual Communication appeared first on Babbel.
14 Apr
From brekkies to barbies, here are some useful Australian expressions so you'll never be lost for words Down Under. The post 21 Essential Aussie Expressions: Australian Slang Phrases Everyone Should Know appeared first on Babbel.
8 Apr
Author: Andreea Dragomirescu On a weeknight in Bucharest, Criteo opened the doors of its new tech hub for a Women in Tech meetup under a simple but clear theme: Driving Change in Tech . The agenda moved from a deep‑dive keynote on ad tech at scale to a panel about culture, diversity, and AI, and finally, networking. The result felt…
5 Apr
This spring, I went to North Carolina State University’s Engineering Career Fair a second time, but this time I was standing behind the table. Accelerator A year ago, I found Atomic Object through the NC State career fair and ended up applying for the Accelerator program. This year I was representing Atomic Object and talking […] The post On the…
24 Mar
Forget French or Italian. Find out why Turkish could be the world's most romantic language. The post Is Turkish The Most Romantic Language? Words And Phrases To Talk About Love In Turkish appeared first on Babbel.
21 Mar
photo by ajay_suresh In a previous post, I wrote about building my support team early during my second pregnancy. I talked about doulas, night nurses, and the support network I wished I had the first time around. Planning my return to work is another part of that same preparation. Specifically, returning to work while pumping. […] The post Here’s How…
8 Mar
Recently, I covered some FAQs on Atomic’s Accelerator program — what it is, how hiring works, and how to stand out as a candidate. If you haven’t read that yet, and it fits your situation, I recommend circling back. This FAQ is about the Atomic Experience. The work, the culture, and what growth looks like […] The post FAQs about…
22 Feb
At Kogan.com, engineering is about building software that is useful and seeing them used at scale. We work in a fast moving e-commerce environment, so the problems are real and often complex. Performance, reliability, scale, legacy constraints, new features, tight feedback loops. We ship frequently, deploy daily, and continuously improve what is already live. You can see the impact of…
11 Feb
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…
12 Jan
Build a large enough website with a large enough codebase, and you’ll eventually find that CSS presents challenges at scale. It’s no different at Meta, which is why we open-sourced StyleX, a solution for CSS at scale. StyleX combines the ergonomics of CSS-in-JS with the performance of static CSS. It allows atomic styling of components [...] Read More... The post…
22 Dec 2025
The 2025 Typed Python Survey, conducted by contributors from JetBrains, Meta, and the broader Python typing community, offers a comprehensive look at the current state of Python’s type system and developer tooling. With 1,241 responses (a 15% increase from last year), the survey captures the evolving sentiment, challenges, and opportunities around Python typing in the [...] Read More... The post…
17 Dec 2025
We’re going behind the scenes of the Meta Ray-Ban Display, Meta’s most advanced AI glasses yet. In a previous episode we met the team behind the Meta Neural Band, the EMG wristband packaged with the Ray-Ban Display. Now we’re delving into the glasses themselves. Kenan and Emanuel, from Meta’s Wearables org, join Pascal Hartig on [...] Read More... The post…
7 Oct 2025
In a talent landscape full of competitive opportunities, where change and turnover are part of the norm, Kogan.com stands out as a place where people choose to stay, grow, and advance their careers. Many of our team members have long tenures, with some contributing as long as 12 or 15 years, reflecting the strong culture and opportunities here. This month,…
4 Aug 2025
What if you could control any device using only subtle hand movements? New research from Meta’s Reality Labs is pointing even more firmly toward wrist-worn devices using surface electromyography (sEMG) becoming the future of human-computer interaction. But how do you develop a wrist-worn input device that works for everyone? Generalization has been one of the [...] Read More... The post…
1 Jul 2025
Have you ever worked is legacy code? Are you curious what it takes to modernize systems at a massive scale? Pascal Hartig is joined on the latest Meta Tech Podcast by Elaine and Buping, two software engineers working on a bold project to rewrite the decades-old C code in one of Meta’s core messaging libraries [...] Read More... The post…
15 May 2025
Back in 2017, engineers at Meta sought to create a type checker for Instagram’s typed Python codebase. Years later, as the type system continued to evolve, that type checker eventually became Pyrefly. Pyrefly is a new type checker and IDE experience for Python, written with Rust, and now available for the entire Python community to [...] Read More... The post…
24 Jan 2025
Introducing a new Android UI framework like Jetpack Compose into an existing app is more complicated than importing some AARS and coding away. What if your app has specific performance goals to meet? What about existing design components, integrations with navigation, and logging frameworks? On this episode of the Meta Tech Podcast Pascal Hartig is [...] Read More... The post…
16 Jan 2025
Do types actually make developers more productive? Or is it just more typing on the keyboard? To answer that question we’re revisiting Diff Authoring Time (DAT) – how Meta measures how long it takes to submit changes to a codebase. DAT is just one of the ways we measure developer productivity and this latest episode [...] Read More... The post…
18 Mar 2024
I joined Bazaarvoice as a DevOps engineer into the Cloud engineering team in September 2023. It has been a very busy first 4 months learning a lot in terms of technical and soft skills. In this post I have highlighted my key learnings from my start at BV. Communication One of the key takeaways I […]
16 Mar 2023
A conversation with engineers who help run Blinkit Chinthakunta Sumanth Kumar Reddy is an SDE 3 at Blinkit. He joined us in March 2021 and has since helped us build a resilient application platform at Blinkit. He currently works as a part of Software Resilience Engineering (SRE)–enabling scalable database migrations for Blinkit’s applications. Tell us about your background and your…
23 Feb 2023
A conversation with engineers who help run Blinkit Jay Dihenkar is a Staff Engineer at Blinkit. He joined us in December 2020 and has helped different teams manage and streamline their build and release processes. He is currently working towards continuously improving the reliability, scalability, observability, developer productivity, and other such aspects of a software system critical for ensuring that…
22 Dec 2022
Image Credits: Kumkum Jain Rukmini Bhattacharya (sometimes mispronounced as Ruk-Money) has been with Zomato since 2018 and with Blinkit since August 2022. She currently works as the City CEO of Bengaluru and heads growth. Here she recollects her journey transition from Zomato and fostering new experiences working with Blinkit. She also sheds light on her learnings working with a tech-first…
1 Dec 2022
Image Credits: Kumkum Jain Drishti (she/her/hers) works as a Software Developer Engineer (SDE) at Blinkit . She joined us about six months ago and is now a part of the tech team within the Product Listing and Search pod. She’s always had the inclination to work at scale while making an impact and shipping a customer-first experience. In this post,…
17 Nov 2022
Ketakii Patni (she/her/hers) works as Senior Executive at Blinkit . She joined us 9 months ago and has played a key role in Consumer Search Content ever since. Ketakii was interested in the marketing and operational aspects of a business, which led her to pursue an MBA in the same field. In this post, Ketakii walks through her journey of…
23 Sept 2022
What’s it like to be an engineer at Clever? What does success look like for individuals and teams? From engineers with non-traditional backgrounds to engineers with Computer Science degrees, four engineers share their perspectives about their experiences, typical days, and growth while working at Clever. The post Interviewing at Clever: Answers to the 10 most common questions appeared first on…
25 Apr 2022
During my final search for an internship, I had an idea of where I wanted to work: a place with a friendly culture and strong engineering practices – something in between a startup and a big company. To my luck, I interned at Clever – an organization that surpassed those expectations in the span of […] The post Working at…
12 Sept 2019
Five women on Clever’s engineering team discuss what inclusivity looks like at Clever, how to grow and maintain female leadership at a tech company, and the challenges they are excited to tackle within their roles. The engineering team is passionate about improving education and solving hard problems. One problem the Clever team is constantly solving […] The post How Clever…
21 May 2019
This year’s Bazzarvoice Hackathon coincided with our annual all hands meeting in Austin. Our global offices took time to work on projects that focused on innovation, social integrations, and improved efficiencies. Teams across our departments participated This included: R&D, Product, Customer Services, and Knowledge Base. Hackathon teams took two days to work on their projects. […]
18 Jan 2019
Are you working on an agile team? Odds are high that you probably are. Whether you do Scrum/Kanban/lean/extreme, you are all about getting work done with the least resistance possible. Heck, if you are still on Waterfall, you care about that. But how well are you doing? Do you know? Is that something a developer […]
26 Nov 2018
We’re closing out #NoServerNovember with a special-edition virtual hackathon for AWS re:Invent. Participate from anywhere, win cool prizes.
14 Nov 2018
Employee compensation is probably your biggest expense, but the total cost of an employee goes beyond their salary. Use this total compensation calculator to accurately budget!
7 Nov 2018
Jared Short has joined the Serverless, Inc. team as Head of Developer Relations and Experience. Here's why.
1 Nov 2018
All November, we're posting a series of serverless challenges. Do the challenge, tweet it out, and you might get swag!
10 Oct 2018
We want to share your expertise with a global audience of serverless pioneers.
17 Sept 2018
When your team team is distributed or remote, building a company culture takes a different kind of effort. Here's how we keep culture strong at Serverless.
3 Sept 2018
I’m laying out my design process for those interested in creating a solid brand identity—whether its from a green field, or you’re working to evolve an existing one.
30 Aug 2018
The Serverless team wanted to get more active on social media, so we created a 10 week program. It was so successful, we decided to open source it!
16 Jul 2018
I'm Charmmie Hendon, and I'm passionate about diversity and inclusion in tech. Here's a bit of my personal experience, and how you too can affect change.
12 Jun 2018
We're always trying to find ways we can give back to our local community. Our latest adventure: organizing a TeenTech coding workshop for high schoolers.
10 Apr 2018
Serverless Champions are leaders in the Serverless Community. Meet our 2018 community heroes.
4 Apr 2018
Distributed teams allow you to hire the best people from over the world. Here are some lessons learned, and how-tos, for doing them right.
29 Mar 2018
Want to do something to give back to your community? Here's how the Serverless team raised over $400 for charity in an hour.
19 Mar 2018
Interested in contributing to Serverless open source projects? Here's how you can.
9 Feb 2018
The Serverless team is distributed all over the world. Here's how we manage communication strategies and work together (remotely).
6 Feb 2018
Sampling is a Bazaarvoice product that allows consumers to join communities and claim a limited amount of free products. In return consumers provide honest & authentic product reviews for the products they sample. Products are released to consumers for reviews at the same time. This causes a rush to claim these products. This is an […]
1 Feb 2018
Our newest team member, Charmmie, entered the tech industry from a career in high fashion. Here's her story.
24 Jan 2018
Our foray into mixing design thinking with agile development—what worked, and what didn't.
13 Dec 2017
Do you have what it takes to be a Serverless Champion?
20 Nov 2017
Miss our October Serverless SF Meetup? Here's the video! Learn all about CRDTs from the founder of Kuhiro, Russell Sullivan.
19 Oct 2017
Lessons learned in avoiding startup chaos. Embrace the mini CEO.
9 Oct 2017
Bi-annual retreats - how we improve communication and make remote teams work.
3 Oct 2017
As the newest product designer at Serverless, I had to ramp fast. Here's what I learned about keeping developers at the center of my design strategy.
25 Aug 2017
Emit Conf 2017 has come and gone. Here are the key serverless takeaways you should know about.
24 Aug 2017
Follow us on our journey to create a resilient team culture that attracts world class talent to the Serverless team.
16 Aug 2017
The top Twitter accounts you should follow to stay on top of serverless, event-driven architecture, and other tech news.
11 May 2017
About six months ago, we shared Why We Hackathon. At Bazaarvoice, we host a company-wide hackathon twice a year, and our next one kicks off this week. My previous post primarily focused on the people and company culture aspects of running a hackathon. In lieu of writing “Synergizing Innovation With Disruptive Hackathons”, this time around […]
17 Apr 2017
Want to be a better engineer or programmer? Check out this list of resources from the Serverless team.
21 Feb 2017
This past October I participated in an awesome Open Source event called “Hacktoberfest”, sponsored by Digital Ocean and GitHub. Hacktoberfest is a month-long celebration of Open Source where developers are encouraged to contribute to the community. Participation is easy: Pull requests can be made in any GitHub-hosted repositories/projects. A contribution can be anything—fixing bugs, creating […]
23 Jan 2017
At Bazaarvoice, we’re big fans of cloud. Real big. We’re also fans of DevOps. There’s been a lot of discussion over the past several years about “What is DevOps?” Usually, this term is used to describe Systems Engineers and Site Reliability Engineers (sometimes called Infrastructure Engineers, Systems Engineers, Operations Engineers or, in the most unfortunate […]
23 Nov 2016
Severless Operations Manager, Casey Shultz, shares tips for building an engaged developer community from CMX Summit 2016.
10 Nov 2016
A while ago, I published a post on this blog about how to perform retrospectives for development teams who proscribe to Kanban and/or the agile development process. You can read that post here: Don’t Look Back in Anger I’ve received a lot of feedback on that blog post – enough that I thought I’d follow up […]
27 Oct 2016
Hey you there, did you know that forty percent of all data breaches are due to web application vulnerabilities? That means the very software your team is building is likely to be the vector to getting your data pwnd. Still feeling skeptical? You should google Heartland’s 2008 breach, eBay’s XSS vulnerability, or Time Warner’s password […]
13 Sept 2016
Austen talks about the Serverless Framework and the important role our open source community plays in shaping it
9 Sept 2016
Peter Sbarski discusses how Serverlessconf came to be and what it's future holds
17 Aug 2016
Over the last 20 years of my career, I have worked with a lot of different people and lot of different teams. Some were very successful, and some were not. I am always trying to understand what makes successful people tick, and what I can do differently to be more successful. Your Energy The one […]
10 Aug 2016
As the summer comes to an end, so do the internships for numerous university students here at Bazaarvoice. This past week, the interns were given an opportunity to present a summary of their accomplishments. This afternoon of presentations, known as the Bazaarvoice “Intern Demo Day”, highlighted the various achievements throughout the company, not just in […]
29 Jul 2016
Don’t Look Back in Anger: Retrospectives, Software Development and How Your Team Can Improve
BazaarvoiceRetrospective – This term can elicit a negative response in people in the software development industry (verbally and physically). After all, it is a bit of a loaded term. Looking back can be painful especially since that usually means looking back at mistakes, missteps and decisions we might want to take back. I have worked […]
28 Jun 2016
If you are part of an agile, or lean, or kanban development team, you probably do or have done demos at one point. Some people call them “end of sprint” demos. Some people call them “stakeholder” demos. We are pretty informal and irreverent about it at Bazaarvoice, and we just call them “demos” because giving […]
4 Sept 2015
Every year Bazaarvoice R&D throws BVIO, an internal technical conference followed by a two-day hackathon. These conferences are an opportunity for us to focus on unlocking the power of our network, data, APIs, and platforms as well as have some fun in the process. We invite keynote speakers from within BV, from companies who use […]
14 Jun 2014
Check out Bazaarvoice IO 2014 Technical Conference keynote speaker Greg Brockman, @thegdb, CTO of Stripe and designer of the Stripe CTF contests discussing how they scaled Stripe from 4 to 94 employees
8 Aug 2013
Every year at Bazaarvoice we bring on a new class of Summer interns and put them to work creating innovative (and educational) projects. At the beginning of the Summer interns choose from a list of projects and teams that interest them. From there they are embedded in a team where they spend the rest of […]