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After a lot of hard work, you’ve landed that coveted internship. Now comes the next big challenge: delivering a meaningful project over the summer. Leading a project independently is an opportunity to sharpen your skills, demonstrate your capabilities, and experience personal growth. As you drive the project on your own, the support from your mentor […]
Simple Sharing Page A clean, simple landing page with an embedded HTML5 audio player (and audio cards for Twitter and Facebook). Embeddable Audio Player Paste this code to embed an HTML5 audio player with controls. Download URL Useful if you want to create a direct download link, embed in your own player, post from another […]
Email encryption and authentication are modern security techniques that you can use to protect your emails and their content from unauthorized access. Everyone, from individuals to business owners, uses emails for official communication, which may contain sensitive information. Therefore, securing emails is important, especially when cyberattacks like phishing, smishing, etc. are soaring high. In this […]
13 min read · Sep 18, 2024 Vidhya Arvind, Rajasekhar Ummadisetty, Joey Lynch, Vinay Chella At Netflix our ability to deliver seamless, high-quality, streaming experiences to millions of users hinges on robust, global backend infrastructure. Central to this infrastructure is our use of multiple online distributed databases such as Apache Cassandra, a NoSQL database known […]
Since the release of ChatGPT in November 2022, the GenAI landscape has undergone rapid cycles of experimentation, improvement, and adoption across a wide range of use cases. Applied to the software engineering industry, GenAI assistants primarily help engineers write code faster by providing autocomplete suggestions and generating code snippets based on natural language descriptions. This […]
This episode of the Meta Tech Podcast is all about Bento, Meta’s internal distribution of Jupyter Notebooks, an open-source web-based computing platform. Bento allows our engineers to mix code, text, and multimedia in a single document and serves a wide range of use cases at Meta from prototyping to complex machine learning workflows. Pascal Hartig […]
Since the release of ChatGPT in November 2022, the GenAI landscape has undergone rapid cycles of experimentation, improvement, and adoption across a wide range of use cases. Applied to the software engineering industry, GenAI assistants primarily help engineers write code faster by providing autocomplete suggestions and generating code snippets based on natural language descriptions. This […]
At Slack, we manage tens of thousands of EC2 instances that host a variety of services, including our Vitess databases, Kubernetes workers, and various components of the Slack application. The majority of these instances run on some version of Ubuntu, while a portion operates on Amazon Linux. With such a vast infrastructure, the critical question […]
Simple Sharing Page A clean, simple landing page with an embedded HTML5 audio player (and audio cards for Twitter and Facebook). Embeddable Audio Player Paste this code to embed an HTML5 audio player with controls. Download URL Useful if you want to create a direct download link, embed in your own player, post from another […]
Introduction Web scraping typically refers to an automated process of collecting data from websites. On a high level, you’re essentially making a bot that visits a website, detects the data you’re interested in, and then stores it into some appropriate data structure, so you can easily analyze and access it later. However, if you’re concerned […]