Blogsby GlyphThu May 31, 20182 posts
How one Figma engineer plays to her strengths: music, programming and cycling
Here at Figma we have a much loved tradition called “3 things.”
Wed May 30, 20184 posts
How Virta Health uses Figma to help patients reverse type 2 diabetes
Today we can monitor sleep, count our steps, record our heartbeat and even text our doctors, all with a click.
Demystifying API Rate Limiting
APIs are the “digital glue” that integrates and connects infrastructure, services, devices, and users. With the proliferation of APIs in almost every organization, it‘s essential to have a mechanism in place to manage and govern them.
OpenAI Fellows Fall 2018
We’re now accepting applications for the next cohort of OpenAI Fellows, a program which offers a compensated 6-month apprenticeship in AI research at OpenAI.
Tue May 29, 20182 posts
Improving the Release Process
Learn how Prisma's release process uses dedicated beta periods to improve quality while keeping new features shipping quickly.
Guest Post: Making the Case for Innovation in the Finance Function
Guest blogger Gary Simon shares results from a recent FSN Survey. See why CFOs are looking to innovate in the finance function, and what's standing in their way.
Fri May 25, 20182 posts
Gym Retro
We’re releasing the full version of Gym Retro, a platform for reinforcement learning research on games. This brings our publicly-released game count from around 70 Atari games and 30 Sega games to over 1,000 games across a variety of...
Thu May 24, 20182 posts
How you can design end to end on a Chromebook
When Chromebooks first came out, it would’ve been a pipe dream to believe they could replace Macs for designers.
Vertiv Announces Winners of North American Partner Program Awards
Vertiv, formerly Emerson Network Power, announced the North American Partner Award winners for 2017 achievement at their annual Partner Summit in New Orleans, LA.
Tue May 22, 20182 posts
Securing Dependencies for Rails 5.2 Active Storage
The Public Cloud Security (PCS) group at Salesforce partners very closely with Heroku engineering to review and advise on new product features across the platform, from infrastructure to applications.
Five ways to use Figma that you probably never thought of
Figma’s magic lives in its collaborative capabilities. If you’ve ever watched someone else’s cursor dance across a frame to tweak a problem spot while you’re filling in copy in that same frame, you know exactly what we’re talking about.
Thu May 17, 20181 post
Wed May 16, 20182 posts
Modern Web Stack: Rails 5 API, ActiveAdmin, and Create React App on Heroku
How to blend a rock-solid CMS and API with the absolute best in front-end tooling, built as a single project and hosted seamlessly on Heroku.
AI and compute
We’re releasing an analysis showing that since 2012, the amount of compute used in the largest AI training runs has been increasing exponentially with a 3.4-month doubling time (by comparison, Moore’s Law had a 2-year doubling...
Tue May 15, 20183 posts
Snyk Named a 2018 Gartner Cool Vendor in Application and Data Security
We’re extremely humbled and honored to have Gartner name Snyk as a May 2018 Cool Vendor in Application and Data Security!
Prisma raises $4.5M to build a GraphQL access layer for all databases
Prisma raised $4.5M to build a GraphQL data layer for databases and shared the vision behind the company's next phase of product development.
Thu May 10, 20182 posts
Rails 5.2 Active Storage: Previews, Poppler, and Solving Licensing Pitfalls
Rails 5.2 was just released last month with a major new feature: Active Storage. Active Storage provides file uploads and attachments for Active Record models with a variety of backing services (like AWS S3).
Material Design + Figma Styles = 🔥
Often when we think of design systems, we think of a tightly controlled collection of components, patterns and guidelines in order to ensure consistency across a product.
Wed May 9, 20183 posts
Figma Styles beta: A new way to apply text and layer attributes
Today, we’re excited to announce a private beta for Figma Styles.
Use Cases for Healthcare Automation: Revenue Cycle Management
Healthcare professionals are jumping on the RPA bandwagon to generate cost savings and streamline processes faster than ever before.
Introducing New WhoAmI Tool DNS Resolver Information
The Domain Name System (DNS) tools “whoami.akamai.net” and its alias “whoami.akamai.com” have been used for many years, often as a step in the process for diagnosing how a content delivery network (CDN) is directing traffic, locality, and...
Tue May 8, 20181 post
JVM Ecosystem Survey 2018
We’re excited to launch the a brand new survey called the JVM Ecosystem Survey 2018 in partnership with the Java Magazine. Also, if we reach 2,500 responses, we’ll give $2000 to Devoxx4Kids!
Thu May 3, 20184 posts
Skyscanner fixed projects and gained visibility into their open source vulnerability exposure
Skyscanner today monitors nearly 500 separate projects with Snyk, and is able to understand the state of their security as well as address both their vulnerability and licensing issues.
Modern Companies Automate HR Processes with RPA
There are still plenty of large volume data-driven manual transactions that are slowing down HR departments today. Here's how RPA can help speed things up.
AI safety via debate
We’re proposing an AI safety technique which trains agents to debate topics with one another, using a human to judge who wins.
Wed May 2, 20181 post
Rust in production at Figma
How Mozilla’s new language dramatically improved our server-side performance