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• In July 2025, at WeAreDevelopers, we shared a new vision and mission for the future of Stack Overflow and its community • We also committed to pushing ourselves to experiment and

• Academic Publications & Airbnb Tech: 2025 Year in Review 2025 was a big year for research at Airbnb, as we made significant progress toward our mission to use AI, data science, a

• Share: If you’ve built a multi-agent workflow, you’ve probably seen it fail in a way that’s hard to explain. • The system completes, and agents take actions. • But somewhere alon

• Codex CLI is a coding agent from OpenAI that runs locally on your computer. • Try it now with your Free or Go ChatGPT plan. • You can keep up with everything happening at OpenAI

• With bad code being easier than ever to write thanks to AI, application security is ever more important. • One of the earliest attack vectors for the internet are file uploads, a

• They discuss how this project helped offload the burden that scraping was creating for their sites, what Wikimedia.DE is doing to maintain data integrity for their entries, and t

• Share: You know that feeling when a sensory trigger instantly pulls you back to a moment in your life? • For me, it’s Icy Hot. • One whiff and I’m back to 5 a.m. • formation time

• In this episode of Leaders of Code, Stack Overflow’s Janice Manningham and Josh Zhang sit down with Cloudflare VP Will Allen to discuss the innovative pay-per-crawl model co-laun

• Share: Over the years (decades), open source has grown and changed along with software development, evolving as the open source community becomes more global. • But with any grow

• Safeguarding Dynamic Configuration Changes at Scale How Airbnb ships dynamic config changes safely and reliably By Cosmo Qiu, Bo Teng, Siyuan Zhou, Ankur Soni, Willis Harvey Dyna

• Stack Overflow’s 2025 developer survey revealed a puzzle: Developers’ use of AI rose, with more than 84% of respondents using or planning to use AI tools in 2025. • But their tru

• Securing the AI software supply chain: Security results across 67 open source projects Learn how The GitHub Secure Open Source Fund helped 67 critical AI‑stack projects accelerat

• Data is the new oil, and your database is the only way to extract it Ryan sits down with Shireesh Thota, CVP of Azure Databases at Microsoft, to discuss the evolution of database

• They cover how Deepgram is improving speech-to-text and text-to-speech capabilities using deep learning to take on challenges posed by dialects and noisy environments and the mor

• Try GitHub Agentic Workflows in a repo today! • Install gh-aw , add a starter workflow or create one using AI, and run it. • Then, share what you build (and what you want next).

• Open collaboration runs on trust. • For a long time, that trust was protected by a natural, if imperfect filter: friction. • If you were on Usenet in 1993, you’ll remember that e

• note: This blog is part two of a two part series. • Read part one on organizations using AI for humanitarian and environmental good here.] The battle for good in a world of bad I

• Share: In January, we experienced two incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services. • January 13 09:38 UTC (lasting 46 minutes) On January 13, 2026, fro

• Anna Sulkina has always been a traveler, and we’re lucky her travels have brought her to Airbnb. • Anna is a Senior Director of Engineering, and she’s responsible for Application

• When the first wave of modern-day AI hype started, a lot of people I knew were worried. • Much of that worry has, so far and unfortunately, been well-founded. • AI has done a lot

• They discuss the challenges of understanding human cognition, the implications of probabilistic AI ’thinking,’ and where Aristotle fits into the philosophical discussions we’re h

• Much has been said about AI decimating the job market for developers. • In an industry changing this quickly, we certainly can’t blame people-especially junior and aspiring engin

• First, Ryan welcomes Pathway CEO Zuzanna Stamirowska and CCO Victor Szczerba to dive into their development of Baby Dragon Hatchling, the first post-transformer frontier model, f

• GitHub Staff GitHub is the world’s best developer experience and the only AI-powered platform with security incorporated into every step, so you can innovate with confidence. • T

• Share: Context switching equals friction in software development. • Today, we’re removing some of that friction with the latest updates to Agent HQ which lets you run coding agen

• Factory builds autonomous coding agents for large engineering teams, covering full SDLC. • Their platform includes tools to assess code quality and agent impact. • Factory’s agen

• Share: In 2025, software development crossed a quiet threshold. • Inour latest Octoverse report, we found that the fastest-growing languages, tools, and open source projects on G

• In part 1, Ryan chats with the co-founder and CEO of Inception, Stefano Ermon, about diffusion language models and how their multiple token generation compares to traditional LLM

• How to maximize GitHub Copilot’s agentic capabilities A senior engineer’s guide to architecting and extending Copilot’s real-world applications. • Modern engineering work rarely

• Welcome to the February recap of what’s new on stackoverflow.com. • This month, we’ve launched several improvements to AI Assist, opened Chat to all users on Stack Overflow, laun

• They talk about the importance of accessibility in web design, how the web went from table-based layouts to modern CSS techniques, and exciting developments coming to CodePen 2.0

• Key takeaways - Successful AI implementation at the enterprise level requires balancing timely innovation and experimentation with governance, security, and trust. • - Successful

• Since its creation in 2008, Stack Overflow has been a trusted part of the software engineer’s learning process. • Got an undocumented bug? • Found some undocumented behavior in y

• My Journey to Airbnb: Peter Coles – Listen Share Public school to PhD The story of Airbnb’s Head Economist for Policy and Director of Data Science involves geology, co-teaching

• GitHub Copilot CLI’s animated ASCII banner showcases complex terminal UI engineering. • Building the banner required handling diverse ANSI color interpretations across terminals.

• Year recap and future goals for the GitHub Innovation Graph Discover the latest trends and insights on public software development activity on GitHub with data from the Innovatio

• SPONSORED BY CODERABBIT Companies are looking to harness agentic code generators to get software built faster. • But for every story of increased developer productivity or greate

• Fast feedback loops are critical; they empower developers to experiment and refactor confidently. • Performance constraints shape language design; efficient abstractions must be

• AI reshapes espionage, intensifying global intelligence rivalry and prompting new defensive strategies. • China’s tech surge fuels new espionage tactics and countermeasures, resh

• Stack Gives Back 2025 donated $49,300 to seven charities, reflecting community priorities. • Doctors Without Borders received $14,983, top choice for medical aid worldwide. • Int

• Artemis, TurinTech’s AI engineering platform, helps teams safely evolve, improve, and maintain existing codebases. • AI can generate new tech debt, yet often fails to deliver the

• Exaforce automates security responses, turning manual, attack‑specific actions into scalable, real‑time workflows. • It enables startups to build a SOC in days, without buying to

• MCP enables AI agents to access services via standardized remote APIs, similar to REST. • Authentication and authorization happen at the transport layer, ensuring secure client-s

• Xano provides a no-code backend platform with visual logic, APIs, and modular AI components. • Prakash Chandran, former Google UX lead, now CEO of Xano, shares backend insights.

• How Airbnb rolled out 20+ locally relevant payment methods worldwide in just 14 months By: Gerum Haile , Bo Shi, Yujia Liu , Yanwei Bai , Bo Yuan , Rory MacQueen , Yixia Mao Acro

• Slack’s Security Engineering team is responsible for protecting Slack’s core infrastructure and services. • Our security event ingestion pipeline handles billions of events per d

• Background A Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT) is a document that outlines how well a product aligns with accessibility (a11y) standards. • Its primary purpose is t

• We manage the build pipeline that delivers Quip and Slack Canvas’s backend. • A year ago, we were chasing exciting ideas to help engineers ship better code, faster. • But we had

• How Airbnb combines GraphQL infra, product context, and LLMs to generate and maintain convincing, type-safe mock data using a new directive. • Introduction Producing valid and re

• Last year, I wrote a blog post titled Advancing Our Chef Infrastructure, where we explored the evolution of our Chef infrastructure over the years. • We talked about the shift fr

• How Airbnb hardened Mussel, our key-value store, with smarter traffic controls to stay fast and reliable during traffic spikes. • By Shravan Gaonkar , Casey Getz , Wonhee Cho Int

• It’s mid 2023 and we’ve identified some opportunities to improve our reliability. • Fast forward to January 2025. • Customer impact hours are reduced from the peak by 90% and con

• How we completely rearchitected Mussel, our storage engine for derived data, and lessons learned from the migration from Mussel V1 to V2. • By Shravan Gaonkar , Chandramouli Rang

• A more powerful engine and a simpler API for our data-oriented mesh By: Adam Miskiewicz, Raymie Stata In November 2020 we published a post about Viaduct, our data-oriented servic

• Introducing Viaduct, Airbnb’s data-oriented service mesh By: Raymie Stata, Arun Vijayvergiya, Adam Miskiewicz At Hasura’s Enterprise GraphQL Conf on October 22, we presented Viad

• As cyberattacks evolve to unprecedented levels of sophistication and speed, the time gap between breach detection and response has never been more critical. • Traditional securit

• By: Jack Dai, Howard Ho, Loc Dinh, Stepan Goncharov, Ted Tenedorio, and Thomas Bao At Airbnb, we recently completed migrating our largest repo, the JVM monorepo, to Bazel. • This

• Seamless Istio Upgrades at Scale How Airbnb upgrades tens of thousands of pods on dozens of Kubernetes clusters to new Istio versions Airbnb has been running Istio® at scale sinc

• Frontend builds consumed ~5 minutes of a 10-minute E2E pipeline, even without frontend changes. • Hundreds of PRs per day caused thousands of redundant builds, generating terabyt

• Slack AI built from scratch, prioritizing security and privacy for enterprise users. • Customer data never exits Slack’s trust boundary; no LLM training on proprietary content. •