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Announcing Rust 1.97.0

The Rust team is happy to announce a new version of Rust, 1.97.0. Rust is a programming language empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software. If you have a previous version of Rust installed via rustup, you can get 1.97.0 with: $ rustup update stable If you don't have it already, yo

Securing Heroku CLI Credentials with System Keychain Storage

Beginning in version 11.8.0, we will be improving the security of the Heroku CLI by storing authentication credentials in your system keychain by default. The Heroku credential manager makes use of OS-native secure storage tools with interfaces designed for sensitive data while maintaining compatibi

Meta’s AI Storage Blueprint at Scale

Over the past several years, model capabilities and training dataset sizes have experienced exponential growth. During the past year or so, the time between new-frontier-model releases has gone down from months to weeks. Reliable and fast access to storage is important to both the speed and computat

Announcing Rust 1.96.1

The Rust team has published a new point release of Rust, 1.96.1. Rust is a programming language that is empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software. If you have a previous version of Rust installed via rustup, getting Rust 1.96.1 is as easy as: rustup update stable If you don't have

GenPage: Towards End-to-End Generative Homepage Construction at Netflix

Authors: Lequn Wang, Jiangwei Pan, and Linas BaltrunasFigure 1. Autoregressive homepage generation. GenPage builds a Netflix homepage one row or entity at a time, each one conditioned on what’s already on the page and the user’s context.IntroductionThe Netflix homepage is the first thing users see w

A 15-Second Health Check for Your Heroku Connect Data Pipeline

Heroku Connect is a fully managed, bidirectional data sync service between Salesforce and Heroku Postgres that lets developers read and write Salesforce data using standard SQL. The sync is straightforward to set up and operates smoothly in the background, but when a field does not update as expecte

Zero-flicker Firestore SSR with React

Toward More Controllable AI Video Editing: An Early Research Exploration at Netflix

By Zhuoning Yuan, Ta-Ying Cheng, Benjamin Klein, Bahareh AzarnoushIntroductionAt Netflix, we build technology to help storytellers bring their creative visions to life and to help members discover the stories they love.To connect stories with diverse audiences around the world, we produce promotiona

Four travel and hospitality trends from HITEC 2026

More than 6,000 hospitality executives and operators gathered in San Antonio last week for the HITEC conference. The big topic: whether the industry’s AI investment is actually working. Across four days and over 50 meetings, four trends stood out.

How Netflix Simplified Batch Compute with Kueue

By Alvin Bao, Alex Petrov, Jennifer Lai, Aidan Sherr, and Samartha ChandrashekarAs a part of the journey to transition Netflix’s compute infrastructure to be more Kubernetes-native, we have leaned into incorporating components from the Kubernetes ecosystem into our container platform Titus. One exam

What Link data tells us about AI spending

We analyzed spending patterns across the 250 million customers paying with Link. We found that Link customers are spending more on AI than they were three months prior, investing heavily in platforms that let them build with AI.

Stripe Projects adds new agent integrations, more providers, and custom developer controls

Our data shows that agents are now fully capable of independently writing code and integrating with APIs like Stripe’s. And yet, many of the steps adjacent to writing code are still too hard for agents to do on their own. We’re expanding Stripe Projects to solve this.

Scaling beyond one: How Airbnb evolved its data architecture for a multi-product world

How Airbnb’s data engineers and analytics engineers built a consistent and flexible data modeling framework to support the expansion into Homes, Experiences, and Services.By: Patrick Lam, Namrata Lamba, Jamie StoberWith the May 2025 Summer Release, Airbnb redesigned its app, relaunched Experiences,

Gemini in Apple's Foundation Models framework

Sitar-agent: Building a reliable dynamic configuration sidecar at scale

How Airbnb built a Kubernetes sidecar to deliver dynamic configuration reliably at scale.By: Bo Teng, Cosmo Qiu, Siyuan Zhou, Ankur Soni, Xin Huang, Willis HarveyIntroductionIn our previous post, we explored Airbnb’s dynamic configuration system, Sitar, with a focus on service architecture and confi

New ways to turn global demand into revenue

At Sessions 2026, Stripe unveiled dozens of products and capabilities to help businesses turn global demand into revenue. See how to go global faster with localized checkout and Adaptive Pricing, smarter fraud tools, multicurrency treasury support, and automated tax compliance.

The future of agentic commerce is here

Explore how AI agents are transforming commerce at Stripe’s Agentic Commerce Next roadshow. Reserve your spot in Seattle.

When history fails you, borrow from geography

How Airbnb used sequential geographic recovery signals and prior propagation to generate reliable corridor-level forecasts when local data was scarce.By: Harrison KatzThe problem with unprecedented shocksAlmost every forecasting system is built on the same implicit assumption: the future will resemb

Building a cooking assistant with Firebase AI Logic

Live text search with Firestore pipelines and React