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PinterestPinterest

Next Gen Data Processing at Massive Scale At Pinterest With Moka (Part 1 of 2)

Pinterest’s Big Data Platform team describes the design, migration, and operational details of Moka, a Kubernetes and Spark-based next-generation data processing platform replacing Hadoop, featuring improved scalability, security, and cost-efficiency.

7/11/2025
MIT AIMIT AI

New AI system uncovers hidden cell subtypes, boosts precision medicine

CellLENS, a novel AI system combining convolutional and graph neural networks, integrates multi-modal cellular data to identify rare cell subtypes and enhance targeted cancer therapies.

7/11/2025
DatabricksDatabricks

How Data Intelligence is Accelerating IT/OT Convergence

Discover how Data Intelligence is driving IT/OT convergence to unlock value and reshape business processes in industrial operations.

7/11/2025
StripeStripe

How we built it: Jurisdiction resolution for Stripe Tax

Stripe Tax's patent-pending Jurisdiction Resolution System (JRS) efficiently determines accurate tax jurisdictions in the US by combining offline geospatial boundary preprocessing with online optimized point-in-polygon matching using bounding boxes and R-trees to handle complex, constantly changing tax rules with low latency.

7/10/2025
Snorkel AISnorkel AI

Building the Benchmark: Inside Our Agentic Insurance Underwriting Dataset

An in-depth look at the development and evaluation of a specialized agentic insurance underwriting dataset leveraging expert CPCU knowledge to benchmark AI model performance in complex enterprise tasks.

7/10/2025
SalesforceSalesforce

Need for AI Speed: How Agentforce Migrated 57,000 Tests from xUnit to Jest 8x Faster

Agentforce accelerated the migration of 57,000 unit tests from xUnit to Jest by implementing a modular AI agent pipeline, achieving an 8x faster, high-quality, and scalable testing framework transition with 99.9% pass rate while preserving developer workflow.

7/10/2025
DuolingoDuolingo

How we used Macros to Promote MVVM architecture adoption

Leveraging Swift Macros to reduce boilerplate and enhance MVVM architecture adoption in large-scale iOS projects by automating repetitive DataSource code generation.

7/10/2025
CloudflareCloudflare

Quicksilver v2: evolution of a globally distributed key-value store (Part 1)

Quicksilver v2 evolves Cloudflare's globally distributed key-value store with a proxy-replica architecture, persistent caching, MVCC, sliding windows, and dynamic discovery to optimize disk usage and maintain consistency under asynchronous replication.

7/10/2025
DropboxDropbox

Making file encryption fast and secure for teams with advanced key management

Dropbox's advanced key management introduces a three-tier encryption hierarchy enabling fast, secure team-based file encryption and sharing, balancing robust security with seamless user experience.

7/10/2025
OpenAIOpenAI

Sam & Jony

An exploration of the innovative partnership and impact of Sam & Jony in technology.

7/9/2025
MIT AIMIT AI

AI shapes autonomous underwater “gliders”

Researchers at MIT and University of Wisconsin use AI-driven machine learning and 3D simulation to design and 3D-print novel, hydrodynamic autonomous underwater gliders with enhanced lift-to-drag ratios for efficient ocean exploration.

7/9/2025
MIT AIMIT AI

Changing the conversation in health care

Generative AI is revolutionizing healthcare communication by bridging linguistic, cultural, and socioeconomic divides through interdisciplinary collaboration and responsible technology design.

7/9/2025