Backend Articles

This is the second post in the Ranking Engineer Agent blog series exploring the autonomous AI capabilities accelerating Meta’s Ads Ranking innovation. The previous post introduced Ranking Engineer Agent’s ML exploration capability, which autonomously designs, executes, and analyzes ranking model experiments. This post covers how to optimize the low-level infrastructure that makes those models run [...] Read More... The post KernelEvolve: How Meta’s Ranking Engineer Agent Optimizes AI Infrastructure appeared first on Engineering at Meta.

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ML Applications

Dropbox

51 min read

Backend•2026-04-02

Improving storage efficiency in Magic Pocket, our immutable blob store

This post explains how Dropbox improved storage efficiency in Magic Pocket, their immutable exabyte-scale blob store, after a fragmentation incident caused by a new service.

Custom OIDC Providers for Supabase Auth

This post introduces support for custom OIDC (OpenID Connect) providers in Supabase Auth, allowing integration with any standards-compliant identity provider.

Spring

21 min read

Backend•2026-04-02

Spring Cloud 2025.0.2 (aka Northfields) Has Been Released

Spring Cloud 2025.0.2 (Northfields) has been released as a General Availability release, based on Spring Boot 3.5.13.

Google

11 min read

Backend•2026-04-02

Supporting Google Account username change in your app

Google now allows US users to update their Google Account username while retaining their original email as an alias, and this post explains the integration impact for platforms using Sign in with Google.

Google Cloud

69 min read

Backend•2026-03-31

Real-world success with Spanner’s fully interoperable multi-model database

This post explores real-world customer success stories using Google Cloud Spanner's multi-model database capabilities across four use cases.

This Week in Spring - March 31st, 2026

This Week in Spring covers the latest releases and resources in the Spring ecosystem for the week of March 31st, 2026.

Cloudflare

31 min read

Backend•2026-03-27

How we use Abstract Syntax Trees (ASTs) to turn Workflows code into visual diagrams

This post explains how Cloudflare built automatic visual diagrams for Workflows by statically parsing JavaScript code using Abstract Syntax Trees (ASTs).