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Frontend — Introducing the React Foundation: The New Home for React & React Native

Introducing the React Foundation: The New Home for React & React Native

Meta open-sourced React over a decade ago to help developers build better user experiences. Since then, React has grown into one of the world’s most popular open source projects, powering over 50 million websites and products built by companies such as Microsoft, Shopify, Bloomberg, Discord, Coinbase, the NFL, and many others. With React Native, React […]

CWChris Wiltz·October 7, 2025Frontend
Performance — 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 continuing to trend downward. We’re a year and half into the Deploy Safety Program at Slack, improving the way we deploy, uplifting our safety culture and continuing…

SBSam Bailey·October 7, 2025Performance
AI & ML — Introducing our agentic commerce solutions

Introducing our agentic commerce solutions

Last week, we shared the Agentic Commerce Protocol (ACP), a new open standard that enables programmatic agentic flows. Here are some of the other steps Stripe is taking to build agentic commerce solutions for AI platforms and businesses.

KMKevin MillerKevin Miller·October 7, 2025AI & ML
SRE & Ops — Introducing OpenZL: An Open Source Format-Aware Compression Framework

Introducing OpenZL: An Open Source Format-Aware Compression Framework

OpenZL is a new open source data compression framework that offers lossless compression for structured data. OpenZL is designed to offer the performance of a format-specific compressor with the easy maintenance of a single executable binary. You can get started with OpenZL today by visiting our Quick Start guide and the OpenZL GitHub repository. Learn more […]

CWChris Wiltz·October 6, 2025SRE & Ops
Networking — Introducing the Candle Subsea Cable, Updates to Our Asia-Pacific Connectivity Projects

Introducing the Candle Subsea Cable, Updates to Our Asia-Pacific Connectivity Projects

We’re introducing Candle, a new submarine cable connecting countries across East Asia and Southeast Asia. We’re also announcing several updates to our subsea cables across the Asia-Pacific, including the completion of the Bifrost cable system. The Asia-Pacific (APAC) region is home to over 58% of the world’s internet users1 – many who rely on robust […]

CWChris Wiltz·October 5, 2025Networking
Frontend — Accelerating our Android apps with Baseline Profiles

Accelerating our Android apps with Baseline Profiles

Key Takeways: With billions of Android app users, we’re always looking to improve the Meta app experience, and in this post, we explore the ways we’ve leveraged Android’s Baseline Profiles to significantly improve their performance. We discuss the performance challenges we’ve faced as Meta’s apps, how the needs of users have become more complex over […]

PHPhil Hornshaw·October 1, 2025Frontend