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Frontend — Brand New Layouts with CSS Subgrid

Brand New Layouts with CSS Subgrid

Subgrid allows us to extend a grid template down through the DOM tree, so that deeply-nested elements can participate in the same grid layout. At first glance, I thought this would be a helpful convenience, but it turns out that it’s so much more. Subgrid unlocks exciting new layout possibilities, stuff we couldn’t do until now. ✨

JWJosh W. Comeau·November 25, 2025Frontend
SRE & Ops — Get better visibility for the WAF with payload logging

Get better visibility for the WAF with payload logging

The WAF provides ways for our customers to gain insight into why it takes certain actions. The more granular and precise the insight, the more reproducible and understandable it is. Revamped payload logging is one such method.

PPaschalPaschal·November 24, 2025SRE & Ops
Languages — Does Dioxus spark joy?

Does Dioxus spark joy?

Note: this article is adapted from a presentation I gave at a Rust Paris Meetup — that’s why it sounds a little different than usual. Enjoy! Good evening! Tonight, I will attempt to answer the question: Does Dioxus spark joy? Or at the very least, whimsy. What’s Dioxus, you ask? It is first and foremost a name that is quote: “legally not inspired by any Pokémon”. Even if the author concedes in a H

AWAmos WengerAmos Wenger·November 22, 2025Languages
SRE & Ops — Zoomer: Powering AI Performance at Meta’s Scale Through Intelligent Debugging and Optimization

Zoomer: Powering AI Performance at Meta’s Scale Through Intelligent Debugging and Optimization

We’re introducing Zoomer, Meta’s comprehensive, automated debugging and optimization platform for AI. Zoomer works across all of our training and inference workloads at Meta and provides deep performance insights that enable energy savings, workflow acceleration, and efficiency gains in our AI infrastructure. Zoomer has delivered training time reductions, and significant QPS improvements, making i

CWChris Wiltz·November 21, 2025SRE & Ops
Engineering — Self-driving infrastructure

Self-driving infrastructure

At Vercel, we’re building self-driving infrastructure, a system that autonomously manages production operations, improves application code using real-world insights, and learns from the unpredictable nature of production itself.

VVercel·November 21, 2025Engineering
Security — Key Transparency Comes to Messenger

Key Transparency Comes to Messenger

We’re excited to share another advancement in the security of your conversations on Messenger: the launch of key transparency verification for end-to-end encrypted chats. This new feature enables an additional level of assurance that only you — and the people you’re communicating with — can see or listen to what is sent, and that no […]

CWChris Wiltz·November 20, 2025Security