Software engineering

• Host Leadership 19 February 2026 Martin Fowler agile team organization technical leadership If you’ve hung around agile circles for long, you’ve probably heard about the concept

• Pick up exactly where you left off with Session Management in Gemini CLI Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Mail Context is everything when working with Gemini CLI. • Whether you are refa

• The Learning Loop and LLMs 04 November 2025 Software development has always resisted the idea that it can be turned into an assembly line. • Even as our tools become smarter, fas

• Felix Loesing | Software Engineer In 2025, we set out to drastically reduce out-of-memory errors (OOMs) and cut resource usage in our Spark applications by automatically identify

• In today’s data-driven world, many helpful insights may utilize sensitive data categories, for example: whether it’s processing personally identifiable information (PII) for pers

• Yuanlu Bai | Machine Learning Engineer II, L1 Conversion and Shopping Modeling; Yao Cheng | Sr. • Machine Learning Engineer, L1 Conversion and Shopping Modeling; Xiao Yang | Sr.

• In just the past few years, large machine learning models have made incredible strides. • Today’s models are not only remarkably capable but also achieve impressive results acros

• 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 te

• Insights from our executive roundtable on AI and engineering productivity Improving engineering productivity is crucial to the work we do at Dropbox. • The more quickly we can de

• Backend Aggregation (BAG) centralizes Ethernet super spine to connect GPUs across regions. • BAG links Disaggregated Schedule Fabric (DSF) and Non-Scheduled Fabric (NSF) for unif

• How We Release the Spotify App: A Look Under the Hood (Part 2) Introduction In Part 1 of ‘How We Release the Spotify App’, we gave an overview of how the Spotify release process

• Liang Mou | Staff Software Engineer, Logging Platform Yisheng Zhou | Software Engineer II, Logging Platform Elizabeth (Vi) Nguyen | Software Engineer I, Logging Platform Owen Zha

• 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 cod

• Beyond Two Towers: Re-architecting the Serving Stack for Next-Gen Ads Lightweight Ranking Models (Part 1) Authors: Xiao Yang | Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer; Ang Xu | Pr

• Ads Candidate Generation using Behavioral Sequence Modeling Lakshmi Manoharan | Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Ads Vertical Modeling; Karthik Jayasurya | Staff Machine Learnin

• I was recently a guest speaker in Jason Liu’s online course on RAG offered by the education platform Maven. • I did some mini deep-dives into what we’ve been doing at Dropbox wit

• WhatsApp introduces Rust-based security layer to protect billions of users from malware threats. • The new media consistency library, written in Rust, runs on devices and browser

• Spotify’s 2025 FOSS Fund awarded €30k to FFmpeg, a cornerstone of media streaming. • Xiph.Org Foundation received support for open‑source audio codecs like Opus and Vorbis. • Moc

• We’ve improved personalized video recommendations on Facebook Reels by moving beyond metrics such as likes and watch time and directly leveraging user feedback. • Our newUser Tru

• Faye Zhang, Staff Software Engineer; Jasmine Wan, Machine Learning Engineer I; Qianyu Cheng, Machine Learning Engineer II; Matthew Hichar, Machine Learning Engineer II; Eric Wan,

• 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-sou

• Why We Use Separate Tech Stacks for Personalization and Experimentation Introduction Personalized apps have become essential for improving user experience across diverse user bas

• 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'

• Incident investigation can be a daunting task in today’s digital landscape, where large-scale systems comprise numerous interconnected components and dependencies DrPis a root ca

• Dropbox Dash uses AI to understand questions about your files, work chats, and company content, bringing everything together in one place for deeper, more focused work. • With te

• We’re going behind the scenes of theMeta 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 wristb

• Han Wang | Machine Learning Engineer; Alex Whitworth | Staff Data Scientist; Pak Ming Cheung | Sr. • Staff Machine Learning Engineer; Zhenjie Zhang | Sr. • Staff Machine Learning

• Background Coding Agents: Predictable Results Through Strong Feedback Loops (Honk, Part 3) This is part 3 in our series about Spotify’s journey with background coding agents (int

• Background Coding Agents: Predictable Results Through Strong Feedback Loops (Part 3) This is part 3 in our series about Spotify’s journey with background coding agents and the fu

• Director Trust Engineering; Aravindh Manickavasagam | Staff Technical Program Manager; Attila Dobi | Sr. • Staff Data Scientist People come to Pinterest to find ideas they feel g

• Rudraksh Kapil | Machine Learning Engineer I; Michal Giemza | Senior Machine Learning Engineer; Devan Srinivasan | Machine Learning Engineering Intern; Leif Sigerson | Senior Dat

• Dmitry Kislyuk | Director, Machine Learning; Ryan Galgon | Director, Product Management; Chuck Rosenberg | Vice President, Engineering; Matt Madrigal | Chief Technology Officer F

• Marcel Mateos Salles | Software Engineer Intern; Jorge Chavez | Sr. • Software Engineer; Khashayar Kamran | Software Engineer II; Andres Almeida | Software Engineer; Peter Kim |

• Building the future: highlights from Dropbox’s 2025 summer intern class This summer, the Emerging Talent team proudly welcomed 43 interns to Dropbox as part of our 2025 Camp Drop

• Background Coding Agents: Context Engineering (Honk, Part 2) This is part 2 in our series about Spotify’s journey with background coding agents (internal codename: ‘Honk’) and th

• Background Coding Agents: Context Engineering (Part 2) This is part 2 in our series about Spotify’s journey with background coding agents and the future of large-scale software m

• When we first built Dash, it looked like most enterprise search systems: a traditional RAG pipeline that combined semantic and keyword search across indexed documents. • It worke

• With Mobius Labs’ Aana models, we’re bringing deeper multimodal understanding to Dropbox Dash Teams today create and share more types of content than ever before. • Their work mi

• Editor’s note: We are republishing a blog post from the Mobius team, originally published in 2023, that introduced a now widely used quantization algorithm. • We plan to continue

• LLM applications present a deceptively simple interface: a single text box. • But behind that minimalism runs a chain of probabilistic stages, including intent classification, do

• Hack Week 2025: How these engineers liquid-cooled a GPU server Hack Week 2025 at Dropbox centered on the theme ‘Keep It Simple,’ offering opportunities for innovation, experiment