The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) recently announced that it accepted the Distributed Application Runtime (Dapr) as a CNCF incubating project. This statement follows an earlier announcement by Dapr, announcing the formatAirbnb recently detailed how it designed and built a unified architecture for collaborative hosting. This architecture streamlines the development process of new products, as engineers only need to know about one central framework that will cover all hosting use cases. This framework encapsulates the specific types of collaborative hosting, freeing the engineers from the need to worry about them. (Read more on InfoQ)

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) recently announced that it accepted the Distributed Application Runtime (Dapr) as a CNCF incubating project. This statement follows an earlier announcement by Dapr, announcing the formation of the Dapr project’s Steering and Technical Committee (STC). (Read more on InfoQ)

Airbnb announced that it has open-sourced Ottr, a serverless public key infrastructure framework developed in-house. Ottr handles end-to-end certificate rotations without the use of an agent. Ottr’s primary design goal is to be a scalable and configurable serverless framework on AWS with little operational overhead or reliance on enrollment protocols. (Read more on InfoQ)

Cockroach Labs announced today the public beta of CockroachDB Serverless. CockroachDB Serverless delivers a fully elastic cloud data infrastructure that enables building applications with less planning for capacity, performance, or availability. It’s based on CockroachDB, a NewSQL database that seeks to combine the scalability of NoSQL systems with ACID guarantees of a traditional database system. (Read more on InfoQ)

PayPal recently published a blog post describing PayPal’s adoption of GraphQL over the recent years. It started with a single Checkout application in 2018 and amounted to creating a unified federated API with GraphQL federation. The adoption of GraphQL across the organisation promoted increased developer productivity and faster application shipment. (Read more on InfoQ)

Uber Engineering recently published how it collects, standardises and uses data from the Uber Rider app. Rider data comprises all the rider’s interactions with the Uber app. This data accounts for billions of events from Uber’s online systems every day. Uber uses this data to deal with top problem areas such as increasing funnel conversion, user engagement, etc. (Read more on InfoQ)

Facebook Engineering recently published how it built its general-purpose key-value store, known as ZippyDB. ZippyDB is Facebook’s biggest key-value store, which has been in production for more than six years. It offers flexibility to applications in terms of tunable durability, consistency, availability, and latency guarantees. (Read more on InfoQ)

Netflix recently published a blog post detailing how it built a reliable device management platform using an MQTT-based event sourcing implementation. To scale its solution, Netflix utilizes Apache Kafka, Alpakka-Kafka and CockroachDB. (Read more on InfoQ)

Slack recently published the details of how it built an email address classification engine that can determine if an email address is internal or external. Slack engineers utilized an eventually consistent near real-time representation of the data in its system and implemented a drift detection mechanism to fix erroneous data, keeping the engine’s operation in order. (Read more on InfoQ)

Uber recently shared how it re-architected its fulfilment service, one of Uber’s foundational platform services. Following a two-year-long effort involving 30+ teams and hundreds of developers, Uber engineers “built a strong foundation for modelling various types of physical fulfilment categories in the new platform and migrated all existing transportation use cases.” (Read more on InfoQ)