Latest Engineering Articles

This article summarizes three major fraud trends discussed at MRC Vegas 2026, where over 2,000 payments leaders gathered to address increasingly automated fraud.

Rust

08 min read

Backend•2026-03-20

What we heard about Rust's challenges

The Rust Vision Doc team shares challenges identified through ~70 developer interviews, covering both universal and domain-specific pain points.

Spring

131 min read

Backend•2026-03-20

Spring Boot 4.1.0-M3 available now

Spring Boot 4.1.0-M3 has been released with 127 enhancements, bug fixes, dependency upgrades, and documentation improvements.

Cloudflare

31 min read

AI•2026-03-19

Powering the agents: Workers AI now runs large models, starting with Kimi K2.5

Cloudflare's Workers AI now supports large frontier open-source models, launching with Moonshot AI's Kimi K2.5 to power agentic workloads on a unified platform.

Speagle Malware Hijacks Cobra DocGuard to Steal Data via Compromised Servers

Researchers have identified a new malware called Speagle that parasitically abuses the Cobra DocGuard document security platform to steal data from targeted systems.

Slack

91 min read

Architecture•2026-03-19

How Slack Rebuilt Notifications 📣

Slack rebuilt its notification system from scratch to resolve years of architectural complexity causing user confusion and noise.

54 EDR Killers Use BYOVD to Exploit 34 Signed Vulnerable Drivers and Disable Security

A new ESET analysis examines 54 EDR killer tools that use the BYOVD technique, abusing 34 signed but vulnerable drivers to disable endpoint security before ransomware deployment.

Databricks

21 min read

AI•2026-03-19

Introducing AI Runtime: Scalable, Serverless NVIDIA GPUs on Databricks for Training and Finetuning

Databricks announces the Public Preview of AI Runtime (AIR), a serverless training stack enabling on-demand distributed GPU training on NVIDIA A10s and H100s.

Announcements

51 min read

AI•2026-03-19

Building an MCP Ecosystem at Pinterest

Pinterest describes how they built a production MCP (Model Context Protocol) ecosystem to enable AI agents to safely automate engineering tasks.

Data Engineering•2026-03-19

Announcing General Availability of Real-Time Mode for Apache Spark Structured Streaming on Databricks

Databricks announces General Availability of Real-Time Mode (RTM) for Apache Spark Structured Streaming, enabling millisecond-level latency without leaving the Spark ecosystem.

Modal vs. Separate Page: UX Decision Tree

This article provides a decision framework for choosing between modal dialogs and separate pages in UI design, emphasizing context preservation and task complexity.