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 Hart…
Browser Run: now running on Cloudflare Containers, it’s faster and more scalable 2026-05-13 Ruskin Constant Rui Figueira Sofia Cardita We’ve enabled higher usage limits, faster performance, and better reliability for Browser Run by rebuilding on top of Cloudflare’s Containers. Y…
Amazon Redshift introduces AWS Graviton-based RG instances with an integrated data lake query engine Since 2013, Amazon Redshift has given the full power of a data warehouse in the cloud, at a fraction of the on-premises cost. Every architectural generation—from dense compute to…
Meta’s data ingestion system, which our engineering teams leverage for up-to-date snapshots of the social graph, has recently undergone a significant revamp to enhance its reliability at scale. Moving from our legacy system to our new architecture required a large-scale migratio…
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When "idle" isn't idle: how a Linux kernel optimization became a QUIC bug 2026-05-12 Esteban Carisimo Antonio Vicente CUBIC, standardized in RFC 9438, is the default congestion controller in Linux, and as a result governs how most TCP and QUIC connections on the public Internet…
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AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments, Agent Toolkit for AWS, and more (May 11, 2026) My most exciting news of last week: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore previewed the first managed payment capabilities enabling AI agents to autonomously access and pay for APIs, MCP ser…
We’re rolling out version 1.1 of Labyrinth, the encrypted storage system and protocol that secures messages and history on Messenger. Labyrinth 1.1 enhances the reliability of end-to-end encrypted backups with a new sub-protocol that helps messages survive the loss of a device,…
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At the Stripe Sessions SaaS Platform Leaders Summit, Stripe Head of Data and AI Emily Sands (left) discusses AI’s impact on commerce with Metropolis Cofounder and CEO Alex Israel and GlossGenius Founder and CEO Danielle Cohen-Shohet. Last month, thousands of vertical SaaS leader…
Published on: May 11, 2026 19 min read GitLab Act 2 A letter to our customers and our investors. news We've been working through some significant changes inside GitLab over the past few days, and I want to share them with you directly. The email I sent the team is included below…
Editor’s Note: In May 2026, Nitro received one of its biggest expansions to date! We’ve updated this article to reflect all the cool new updates. What is Discord Nitro? How does it work? Is Nitro free? And if not, where do you buy it? These are all things that may be swirling a…
I've been playing games with friends my entire life. These days, with two kids at home, that looks like maybe an hour after bedtime. And, that hour almost always starts on Discord, checking what friends are up to, figuring out what to play, and jumping in. I've been on the platf…
Scaling ArchUnit with Nebula ArchRules -- 2 Listen Share By John Burns and Emily Yuan Introduction At Netflix, we operate using a polyrepo strategy with tens of thousands of Java repositories. This means that we need to have ways of sharing common build logic across these reposi…
