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High-signal field notes, architecture teardowns, and engineering writing from 50 publications. A focused reading queue for becoming a stronger end-to-end engineer. Updated 20 Aug.
How ROOST is Advancing Online Safety
The threat landscape online has shifted dramatically. Many online platforms are left to reinvent safety tools from scratch. That’s the gap ROOST was built to close — and it’s why open-sourcing battle-tested tools like Osprey matters so much.
Redpanda pushes the envelope on NVIDIA Vera
NVIDIA Vera provides 5.5x lower latencies and up to 73% higher throughputs than other leading CPU models.
You’re Now Discord Official: Developers, Claim Your Game and Verify Your Server
Developers can now claim and customize their game’s profiles on Discord. Curate your game’s presence on the platform to help people discover more about your game, and get your server verified in the process! Read on to see how it works.
Redpanda Cloud’s BYOVPC for AWS is now Generally Available
BYOVPC is ready for production workloads, giving teams advanced networking control without sacrificing the managed experience you love about Redpanda Cloud.
Building on the Social Layer of Games: What’s New from GDC 2026
At GDC 2026, Discord gives developers more ways to close the gap between connection and play.
Discord Patch Notes: March 6, 2026
Check out the finer details of the more technical fixes implemented into Discord recently.
Introducing Iceberg output for Redpanda Connect
Land any data into Apache Iceberg with Redpanda Connect. Maximize infra density, automate schema evolution, and scale 1-to-many routing without the toil.
Tracing Discord's Elixir Systems (Without Melting Everything)
Join Senior Software Engineer Nick Krichevsky as he explains how Discord added distributed tracing to Elixir's message passing and optimized it to handle millions of concurrent users.
Hello, Agent! A podcast for the agentic enterprise
Cut through the hype and learn how enterprise leaders are designing, deploying, and scaling AI agents in the real world.
Using LLMs to amplify human labeling and improve Dash search relevance
How we train Dash's search ranking models with a mix of human and LLM-assisted labeling.
Getting Global Age Assurance Right: What We Got Wrong and What's Changing
Discord's CTO addresses community concerns about age assurance: no mass ID collection, new vendor transparency commitments, and a delayed global launch until second half of 2026.
Building with Redpanda Connect: Bloblang and Claude Plugin
Join our workshop to learn how to build a production-ready Postgres-to-Redpanda pipeline and see what that simplicity looks like in practice.
Aloha, Redpanda FY27 company kick-off
From AI hackathons to hakas, here’s what happened at our fourth company kick-off.
Osprey: Open Sourcing our Rule Engine
Discord uses Osprey to quickly detect and remove new types of harm from putting our customers at risk. Now we’re open-sourcing this tool so others can do the same.
How to Change Your Theme to Bring Your Vibe to Discord
Add a splash of personality and make Discord pop by changing Discord’s color scheme! Learn how to adjust the look of Discord on both desktop and mobile.
Redpanda Agentic Data Plane (ADP) is now available
Open the source for the full engineering note.
How low-bit inference enables efficient AI
Making products like Dropbox Dash accessible to individuals and businesses means tackling new challenges around efficiency and resource use.
How to safely deploy agentic AI in the enterprise
The enterprise agentic AI market is struggling. Companies are still trying to figure out how to run agentic systems safely in their private networks. Here’s how data streaming platforms can help.
Redpanda Terraform supports managing Redpanda Connect pipelines, private network
Automate Redpanda Cloud with Terraform. Manage Connect pipelines, PrivateLink, and BYOVPC to reduce operational toil and enforce enterprise governance.
Discord Patch Notes: February 4, 2026
Check out the finer details of the more technical fixes implemented into Discord recently.
Redpanda Serverless GA: AWS PrivateLink & metrics
Zero-ops simplicity meets enterprise-grade security to unlock production-ready data streaming for builders. Here’s what’s new in Redpanda Serverless.
How to Customize Your Discord Profile
Make your first impression count with a profile that represents you how YOU want to be seen. Learn how to edit and customize your profile to have it rep you the right way.
Bloblang playground just got smarter
We’ve supercharged the Bloblang Playground with better autocomplete, dynamic metadata detection, and swifter collaboration.
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Clear state, predictable behavior, fewer surprises. That's what happened after we refactored our scheduler. Here's what we did and a demo comparing the old with the new.
How to optimize real-time data ingestion in Snowflake and Iceberg
Learn about the hidden costs of real-time data ingestion and practical strategies to optimize your streaming infrastructure.