Spy vs spy at scale

Spy vs spy at scale

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

Developer Ecosystem · January 27, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 1 min · 174 words
Stack Gives Back 2025!

Stack Gives Back 2025!

• 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

Developer Ecosystem · January 26, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 1 min · 174 words
Meet the First Speakers Heading to KotlinConf 2026

Meet the First Speakers Heading to KotlinConf 2026

• KotlinConf 2026 will feature a lineup of pioneering speakers shaping Kotlin’s future. • The conference promises inspiring talks, deep workshops, and networking for global Kotlin

Mobile Development · January 26, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 1 min · 176 words
AI can 10x developers...in creating tech debt

AI can 10x developers...in creating tech debt

• 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

Developer Ecosystem · January 23, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 225 words
Automate your security whack-a-mole: Q&A with Exaforce

Automate your security whack-a-mole: Q&A with Exaforce

• 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

Developer Ecosystem · January 22, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 1 min · 190 words
Is that allowed? Authentication and authorization in Model Context Protocol

Is that allowed? Authentication and authorization in Model Context Protocol

• 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

Developer Ecosystem · January 21, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 1 min · 186 words
Don't let your backend write checks your frontend can't cache

Don't let your backend write checks your frontend can't cache

• 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.

Developer Ecosystem · January 20, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 1 min · 187 words

Pay As a Local

• 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

Developer Ecosystem · January 12, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 346 words
Streamlining Security Investigations with Agents

Streamlining Security Investigations with Agents

• 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

Developer Ecosystem · December 1, 2025 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 325 words
Android VPAT journey

Android VPAT journey

• 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

Developer Ecosystem · November 19, 2025 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 316 words
Build better software to build software better

Build better software to build software better

• 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

Developer Ecosystem · November 6, 2025 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 268 words

GraphQL Data Mocking at Scale with LLMs and @generateMock

• 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

Developer Ecosystem · October 30, 2025 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 268 words
Advancing Our Chef Infrastructure: Safety Without Disruption

Advancing Our Chef Infrastructure: Safety Without Disruption

• 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

Developer Ecosystem · October 23, 2025 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 357 words
Introducing CLI Agent Orchestrator: Transforming Developer CLI Tools into a Multi-Agent Powerhouse

Introducing CLI Agent Orchestrator: Transforming Developer CLI Tools into a Multi-Agent Powerhouse

• AWS Open Source Blog Introducing CLI Agent Orchestrator: Transforming Developer CLI Tools into a Multi-Agent Powerhouse Today we are introducingCLI Agent Orchestrator (CAO, prono

From Static Rate Limiting to Adaptive Traffic Management in Airbnb's Key-Value Store

• 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

Deploy Safety: Reducing customer impact from change

Deploy Safety: Reducing customer impact from change

• 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

Building a Next-Generation Key-Value Store at Airbnb

• 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

Developer Ecosystem · September 24, 2025 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 321 words

Viaduct, Five Years On: Modernizing the Data-Oriented Service Mesh

• 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

Developer Ecosystem · September 17, 2025 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 219 words

Taming Service-Oriented Architecture Using A Data-Oriented Service Mesh

• 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

Developer Ecosystem · September 16, 2025 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 239 words
Building Slack's Anomaly Event Response

Building Slack's Anomaly Event Response

• 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

Developer Ecosystem · September 4, 2025 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 297 words

Migrating Airbnb's JVM Monorepo to Bazel

• 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

Seamless Istio Upgrades at Scale

• 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

Python 3.14.0 beta 4 is here!

• Final Python 3.14 beta (3.14.0b4) released, ready for community testing. • Beta 4 is feature‑complete but may still change before release candidate. • Encourage third‑party maint

Language Internals · July 8, 2025 (updated February 24, 2026) · 1 min · 166 words
Optimizing Our E2E Pipeline

Optimizing Our E2E Pipeline

• 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

PayPal Begins Rollout of MCP Servers to Accelerate Agentic Commerce

PayPal Begins Rollout of MCP Servers to Accelerate Agentic Commerce

• PayPal launches MCP servers, adopting Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol for AI-native commerce. • Developers can now access PayPal services via MCP, enabling generative AI integ

Engineering Blogs · April 4, 2025 (updated February 24, 2026) · 1 min · 174 words
How we built enterprise search to be secure and private

How we built enterprise search to be secure and private

• 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. •

The Developer Show: Building Zoom Chatbots

• Zoom Developer Advocacy champions developer education, providing tutorials, SDKs, and community support. • The new ‘Developer Show’ series showcases building Zoom Chatbots with t

Engineering Blogs · April 3, 2020 (updated February 24, 2026) · 1 min · 184 words

New API Rate Limiter

• Zoom introduces new V2 API Rate Limits in March 2020 to support scaling. • Current one-size-fits-all limits insufficient for growing organizations. • New limits tailored to Accou

Engineering Blogs · February 14, 2020 (updated February 24, 2026) · 1 min · 161 words

What's New and What's Coming for Zoom Marketplace in 2020?

• Zoom added new functional categories to its Marketplace, improving app discoverability for customers. • Publishers can now include Terms of Use and App Documentation URLs alongsi

Engineering Blogs · February 14, 2020 (updated February 24, 2026) · 1 min · 211 words
Behind the Curtain: App Publishing Requests

Behind the Curtain: App Publishing Requests

• Two main submission paths: App Publishing Request for marketplace-wide distribution and Publishable URL for limited sharing. • App Publishing Request lets any Zoom user install y

Engineering Blogs · January 22, 2020 (updated February 24, 2026) · 1 min · 201 words