Latest Engineering Articles

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.

The Hacker News

01 min read

Security•2026-03-19

ThreatsDay Bulletin: FortiGate RaaS, Citrix Exploits, MCP Abuse, LiveChat Phish & More

This week's ThreatsDay Bulletin covers a broad range of active cybersecurity threats and newly disclosed attack techniques.

AWS

71 min read

DevOps•2026-03-19

20 years in the AWS Cloud – how time flies!

AWS celebrates its 20th anniversary with a retrospective on two decades of cloud innovation and landmark service launches.

JavaScript for Everyone: Destructuring

This article is an excerpt from the 'JavaScript for Everyone' course, explaining JavaScript destructuring assignment syntax with practical code examples.