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Live text search with Firestore pipelines and React

Introducing the pkg.go.dev API

Introducing the new programmatic API for pkg.go.dev, allowing developers to fetch package and module data directly.

Scaling Airbnb’s identity graph with a unified knowledge graph infrastructure

How Airbnb shifts from PaaS to an internal knowledge graph infrastructure at scale.By: Lucen Zhao, Shukun Yang, Ashish JainKnowledge graphs offer a natural and powerful way to represent relationships between entities. Many real-world systems are fundamentally about connections.Airbnb’s identity grap

What’s new from Firebase at Google I/O 2026

Type Construction and Cycle Detection

Go 1.26 simplifies type construction and enhances cycle detection for certain kinds of recursive types.

Heroku March 2026 Update

We’ve transitioned to a Sustaining Engineering model to better serve the customers who rely on us every day. Our mission is simple: to provide the most stable, secure, and reliable environment for your apps and data. We will continue releasing features and functionality that align with our Sustainin

Modernizing the Command Line: Heroku CLI v11

Heroku CLI v11 is now available. This release represents the most significant architectural overhaul in years, completing our migration to ECMAScript Modules (ESM) and oclif v4. This modernization brings faster performance, a new semantic color system, and aligns the CLI with modern JavaScript stand

Bigger Slugs and Greater Build Timeout Flexibility

Modern applications, especially those leveraging AI and data-heavy libraries, need more room to breathe. To support these evolving stacks and reduce developer friction, we’ve increased the default maximum compressed slug size from 500MB to 1GB. Understanding app slugs and deployment App slugs are th

Behind the Scenes: How Maintaining Cloud Native Buildpacks Powers Platforms Like Heroku

Most developers never see the 11 pack releases we shipped in the last 14 months as pack CLI maintainers. That’s actually a good sign—it means the infrastructure just works. When a critical vulnerability emerges requiring an immediate upgrade, the fix is shipped within days. Here’s what most develope

From Fragmented Logs to Full-Stack Visibility with SolarWinds Papertrail

Modern applications on Heroku don’t just consist of code. They are living ecosystems comprised of dynos, databases, third-party APIs, and complex user interactions. As these systems scale, so do the logs and metrics. To efficiently extract the signals from the noise you need to understand system hea

//go:fix inline and the source-level inliner

How Go 1.26's source-level inliner works, and how it can help you with self-service API migrations.

The Python Insider Blog has moved!

Exciting news: We moved the blog!Python Insider now lives at https://blog.python.org, backed by a Git repository. All 307 posts from the Blogger era have been migrated over, and old URLs redirect to the new ones automatically. Your RSSreaders should pick up the new feed without any action on your pa