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SRE & Ops — How Meta keeps its AI hardware reliable

How Meta keeps its AI hardware reliable

Hardware faults can have a significant impact on AI training and inference. Silent data corruptions (SDCs), undetected data errors caused by hardware, can be particularly harmful for AI systems that rely on accurate data for training as well as providing useful outputs. We are sharing methodologies we deploy at various scales for detecting SDC across […]

CWChris Wiltz·July 22, 2025SRE & Ops
Frontend — A Friendly Introduction to SVG

A Friendly Introduction to SVG

SVGs are one of the most remarkable technologies we have access to on the web. They’re first-class citizens, fully addressable with CSS and JavaScript. In this tutorial, I’ll cover all of the most important fundamentals, and show you some of the ridiculously-cool things we can do with this massively underrated tool. ✨

JWJosh W. Comeau·July 21, 2025Frontend
Frontend — Handling JavaScript Event Listeners With Parameters — Smashing Magazine

Handling JavaScript Event Listeners With Parameters — Smashing Magazine

Event listeners are essential for interactivity in JavaScript, but they can quietly cause memory leaks if not removed properly. And what if your event listener needs parameters? That’s where things get interesting. Amejimaobari Ollornwi shares which JavaScript features make handling parameters with event handlers both possible and well-supported.

AOAmejimaobari OllornwiAmejimaobari Ollornwi·July 21, 2025Frontend
Design & UX — Why Non-Native Content Designers Improve Global UX — Smashing Magazine

Why Non-Native Content Designers Improve Global UX — Smashing Magazine

Ensuring your product communicates clearly to a global audience is not just about localisation. Even for products that have a proper localisation process, English often remains the default language for UI and communications. This article focuses on how you can make English content clear and inclusive for non-native users. Oleksii offers a practical guide based on his own experience as a non-native

OTOleksii TkachenkoOleksii Tkachenko·July 18, 2025Design & UX
AI & ML — Using AI to make lower-carbon, faster-curing concrete

Using AI to make lower-carbon, faster-curing concrete

Meta has developed an open-source AI tool to design concrete mixes that are stronger, more sustainable, and ready to build with faster—speeding up construction while reducing environmental impact. The AI tool leverages Bayesian optimization, powered by Meta’s BoTorch and Ax frameworks, and was developed with Amrize and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (U of I) […]

CWChris Wiltz·July 16, 2025AI & ML
Engineering — Leveraging multimodal LLMs for Shopify’s global catalogue: Recap of expo talk at ICLR 2025 - Shopify

Leveraging multimodal LLMs for Shopify’s global catalogue: Recap of expo talk at ICLR 2025 - Shopify

Shopify’s Global Catalogue demonstrates the impact of multimodal LLMs on one of commerce’s hardest problems: building a unified, structured, and continuously evolving understanding of billions of product listings created by millions of merchants. At the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2025 Expo in Singapore, we presented the core engineering behind this initiative

SEShopify Engineering·July 16, 2025Engineering
Security — Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 Incident on July 14, 2025

Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 Incident on July 14, 2025

On July 14th, 2025, Cloudflare made a change to our service topologies that caused an outage for 1.1.1.1 on the edge, resulting in downtime for 62 minutes for customers using the 1.1.1.1 public DNS Resolver as well as intermittent degradation of service for Gateway DNS. We’re deeply sorry for this outage. This outage was the result of an internal configuration error and not the result of an attack

APAsh Pallarito, Joe AbleyAsh Pallarito, Joe Abley·July 15, 2025Security