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Security — Project Glasswing: what Mythos showed us

Project Glasswing: what Mythos showed us

In recent weeks, we pointed Mythos and other security-focused LLMs at live code across critical parts of our infrastructure. We share what we observed, the models’ strengths and weaknesses, and what the work around them needs to look like before any of it can scale.

GGrantGrant·May 18, 2026Security
AI & ML — Take your local GitHub sessions anywhere

Take your local GitHub sessions anywhere

Kick off work in VS Code or the CLI, finish it from your phone. Remote control for GitHub Copilot sessions is now generally available on github.com and GitHub Mobile.

CHCandy Ho, Ellie BennettCandy Ho, Ellie Bennett·May 18, 2026AI & ML
Frontend — Reel Friends: Building Social Discovery that Scales to Billions

Reel Friends: Building Social Discovery that Scales to Billions

On its face the new Friend Bubbles feature looks simple enough. It highlights Reels your friends have watched and reacted to. But sometimes the features that seem the most straightforward require the deepest engineering work. On this episode of the Meta Tech Podcast, Pascal Hartig chats with Subasree and Joseph, two software engineers from the Facebook […]

CWChris Wiltz·May 13, 2026Frontend
Engineering — What Is Code?

What Is Code?

Code has two distinct but intertwined purposes. It is a set of instructions for a machine, and it is also a conceptual model of the problem domain. A well designed codebase is a representation of the vocabulary of a domain. These abstractions reveal themselves only as developers build the software. Programming languages act as thinking tools, enabling the construction of a conceptual model that su

UJUnmesh Joshi·May 12, 2026Engineering
SRE & Ops — Migrating Data Ingestion Systems at Meta Scale

Migrating Data Ingestion Systems at Meta Scale

Meta’s data ingestion system, which our engineering teams leverage for up-to-date snapshots of the social graph, has recently undergone a significant revamp to enhance its reliability at scale. Moving from our legacy system to our new architecture required a large-scale migration of our entire data ingestion system. We’re sharing the solutions and strategies that enabled […]

CWChris Wiltz·May 12, 2026SRE & Ops
Frontend — Labyrinth 1.1: Making End-to-End Encrypted Backups Even More Reliable

Labyrinth 1.1: Making End-to-End Encrypted Backups Even More Reliable

We’re rolling out version 1.1 of Labyrinth, the encrypted storage system and protocol that secures messages and history on Messenger. Labyrinth 1.1 enhances the reliability of end-to-end encrypted backups with a new sub-protocol that helps messages survive the loss of a device, a switched device, and long gaps between sign-ins. Read our updated white paper, […]

CWChris Wiltz·May 11, 2026Frontend
Career & Teams — Building For The Future

Building For The Future

This afternoon, we sent the following email to our global team. One of our core values at Cloudflare is transparency, and we believe it's important that you hear this directly from us because it’s a major moment at Cloudflare.

MPMatthew Prince, Michelle ZatlynMatthew Prince, Michelle Zatlyn·May 7, 2026Career & Teams
Security — From SSH to REST: A Security-Driven Modernization of Slack’s EMR Data Pipelines

From SSH to REST: A Security-Driven Modernization of Slack’s EMR Data Pipelines

Excerpt By 2024, Slack’s data platform had accumulated 700+ SSH-based operators orchestrating critical data pipelines. We’re talking daily search indexing that processed terabytes of data, analytics jobs powering business intelligence, the whole shebang. Every single one of these jobs required direct SSH access to production AWS Elastic MapReduce (EMR) clusters. We had a massive security…

MVMahendran Vasagam·May 5, 2026Security
Design & UX — Rethinking The Experience Of System Tools — Smashing Magazine

Rethinking The Experience Of System Tools — Smashing Magazine

Design always starts with function — function shapes form. But if that function can’t be made completely invisible and people still have to interact with it, it inevitably becomes part of their experience. In this article, Kyrylo Levashov shares four common software design assumptions.

KLKyrylo LevashovKyrylo Levashov·May 5, 2026Design & UX
SRE & Ops — How Meta Is Strengthening End-to-End Encrypted Backups

How Meta Is Strengthening End-to-End Encrypted Backups

The HSM-based Backup Key Vault Meta’s HSM-based Backup Key Vault provides the foundation for end-to-end encrypted backups for WhatsApp and Messenger. The system allows people to protect their backed-up message history with a recovery code, ensuring that the recovery code is stored in tamper-resistant hardware security modules (HSMs) and is inaccessible to Meta, cloud storage […]

CWChris Wiltz·May 1, 2026SRE & Ops
Design & UX — Designing Stable Interfaces For Streaming Content — Smashing Magazine

Designing Stable Interfaces For Streaming Content — Smashing Magazine

Streaming UIs are an easy concept on the surface, but are quite complicated in practice. There are many considerations that need to be accounted for, from layout shifts and motion preferences to proper markup and various states, that may not be instantly obvious. What happens if the stream is interrupted? Can users tab through the UI on the keyboard as it shifts? What ARIA attributes might be need

JPJoas PambouJoas Pambou·May 1, 2026Design & UX
SRE & Ops — Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy

Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy

Starting today, agents can now be Cloudflare customers. They can create a Cloudflare account, start a paid subscription, register a domain, and get back an API token to deploy code right away. Humans can be in the loop to grant permission, but there’s no need to go to the dashboard, copy and paste API tokens, or enter credit card details.

SBSid, Brendan Irvine BroqueSid, Brendan Irvine Broque·April 30, 2026SRE & Ops
AI & ML — Everything we announced at Sessions 2026

Everything we announced at Sessions 2026

We’re making Stripe even more programmable; protecting and propelling your business with the strength of the Stripe network; and building economic infrastructure for AI.

WGWill GaybrickWill Gaybrick·April 29, 2026AI & ML
Engineering — Giving agents the ability to pay

Giving agents the ability to pay

Link’s wallet for agents gives agents programmatic access to Link, including the ability to generate a one-time-use card or SPT backed by the cards and bank accounts already in your wallet. It’s built on Stripe’s new Issuing for agents.

DHDan HillDan Hill·April 29, 2026Engineering