Latest Engineering Articles

Netflix

21 min read

Evaluating Netflix Show Synopses with LLM-as-a-Judge

Databricks

31 min read

Memory Scaling for AI Agents

This post introduces memory scaling as a new design axis for AI agents, showing that performance improves as external memory grows.

Databricks

11 min read

Powering clinical research innovation: How TriNetX uses Databricks to accelerate drug development

TriNetX leverages Databricks' lakehouse architecture to power AI-driven analytics on real-world health data (RWD) from nearly 300 million patients, accelerating clinical drug development timelines.

Databricks

11 min read

Database Branching in Postgres: Git-Style Workflows with Databricks Lakebase

This post introduces database branching in Databricks Lakebase Postgres as a copy-on-write primitive that enables Git-like isolated database environments for development workflows.

The Hacker News

11 min read

Google Rolls Out DBSC in Chrome 146 to Block Session Theft on Windows

Google has made Device Bound Session Credentials (DBSC) generally available to all Windows users of its Chrome web browser, months after it began testing the security feature in open beta. The public availability is currently limited to Windows users on Chrome 146, with macOS expansion planned in an upcoming Chrome release. "This project represents a significant

The Hacker News

41 min read

Backdoored Smart Slider 3 Pro Update Distributed via Compromised Nextend Servers

Unknown threat actors have hijacked the update system for the Smart Slider 3 Pro plugin for WordPress and Joomla to push a poisoned version containing a backdoor. The incident impacts Smart Slider 3 Pro version 3.5.1.35 for WordPress, per WordPress security company Patchstack. Smart Slider 3 is a popular WordPress slider plugin with more than 800,000 active installations across its free and Pro

Google Cloud

55 min read

A developer’s guide to architecting reliable GPU infrastructure at scale

This post outlines Google Cloud's strategy for engineering reliable GPU infrastructure at the scale required for modern AI/ML workloads.

Google Cloud

44 min read

Guardrails at the gateway: Securing AI inference on GKE with Model Armor

This article explains how to secure AI inference workloads on GKE using Model Armor as a network-level guardrail against AI-specific attack vectors.

The Hacker News

41 min read

EngageLab SDK Flaw Exposed 50M Android Users, Including 30M Crypto Wallets

Microsoft Defender researchers disclosed a now-patched intent redirection vulnerability in EngageLab SDK that exposed over 50 million Android users, including 30 million cryptocurrency wallet users.

Databricks

41 min read

The Next Era of the Open Lakehouse: Apache Iceberg™ v3 in Public Preview on Databricks

Databricks releases Apache Iceberg v3 in Public Preview, introducing Row Lineage, Deletion Vectors, and VARIANT.

The Hacker News

31 min read

UAT-10362 Targets Taiwanese NGOs with LucidRook Malware in Spear-Phishing Campaigns

A previously undocumented threat cluster dubbed UAT-10362 has been attributed to spear-phishing campaigns targeting Taiwanese non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and suspected universities to deploy a new Lua-based malware called LucidRook. "LucidRook is a sophisticated stager that embeds a Lua interpreter and Rust-compiled libraries within a dynamic-link library (DLL) to download and

Google Cloud

15 min read

How Estée Lauder Companies uses Cloud Run worker pools for its pull-based agentic workloads

This post explains how Estée Lauder Companies used Cloud Run worker pools to build a scalable, pull-based infrastructure for their consumer-facing AI applications.