New year, no shutdowns: the Q1 2025 Internet disruption summary

Cloudflare’s network spans more than 330 cities in over 125 countries, where we interconnect with over 13,000 network providers in order to provide a broad range of services to millions of customers. The breadth of both our network and our customer base provides us with a unique perspective on Internet resilience, enabling us to observe the impact of Internet disruptions at both a local and national level, as well as at a network level. ...

April 22, 2025

A new hybrid platform for quantum simulation of magnetism

April 21, 2025

Air Fact

April 21, 2025

How Airbnb Powers Personalization With 1M Events Per Second

Build Private AI Agents at Scale (Sponsored)Agentic AI is transforming how enterprises work — but building secure, auditable AI agents at scale isn’t easy. Join Redpanda Founder & CEO Alex Gallego and Senior Software Engineer Tyler Rockwood for a live Launch Stream unveiling the Agentic Runtime Platform: a new way to run private, traceable, multi-agent AI systems in your own cloud. See live demos, get insights from AI leaders, and discover how to overcome the hidden infrastructure challenges behind today’s enterprise AI. ...

April 21, 2025

EP159: The Data Engineering Roadmap

How to monitor containerized applications in Azure (Sponsored)In this eBook, you’ll learn how to deploy and monitor containerized applications using Azure and Datadog. Start monitoring AKS cluster status, AKS control plane, and understand critical AKS resource metrics. Plus, get best practices on collecting and tracking observability data across your container environment, and be alerted to performance issues and potential threats automatically. ...

April 19, 2025

Anchor Screws

April 18, 2025

InstructPipe: Generating Visual Blocks pipelines with human instructions and LLMs

April 18, 2025

A Behind-the-Scenes Look at How We Release the Spotify App (Part 1)

April 17, 2025

Coupling and Cohesion: The Two Principles for Effective Architecture

Every large system that spirals out of control starts the same way: small, functional, and deceptively simple. However, as the system evolves, things spiral out of control. A feature is added here, a helper function squeezed there, and a “temporary” dependency for some urgent task that never gets removed. Months later, debugging requires going through five layers of indirection, and touching one module can break the entire system.  Behind the scenes of that slow collapse, two invisible forces often play tug-of-war: coupling and cohesion. ...

April 17, 2025

Teaching machines the language of biology: Scaling large language models for next-generation single-cell analysis

April 17, 2025