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Shopify recently announced it is abandoning React Native to rewrite its flagship apps in Swift and Kotlin. With the significant jump in the quality of AI models, Head of Mobile Mustafa Ali reassessed Shopify’s commitment to React Native, estimating that the benefit/cost ratio of maintaining native codebases across mobile platforms was now above that of using an abstraction layer. By Bruno Couriol

In this article, the author introduces Typed Domain Grounding, an approach to reducing LLM hallucinations in domain-specific languages by embedding them in mainstream typed languages. Using kUML benchmarks and an infrastructure-as-code example, he explores how compiler validation and generate-compile-repair loops can make model-generated DSL output more reliable. By Irakli Betchvaia

Lyft has moved hundreds of production Flink jobs from a 2020 in-house Kubernetes operator to the Apache Flink Kubernetes Operator, unlocking last-state upgrades, in-place autoscaling and resource autotuning across the fleet. By Mark Silvester

Dropbox has outlined how a decade of infrastructure optimization is helping it absorb growing demand from AI without treating new data-center capacity as the only answer. Its work spans forecasting, fleet utilization, storage density, hardware lifecycles, and rack-level power delivery, much of it predating the current AI boom. By Matt Foster

Pinterest Engineering has enhanced its Manas search platform to manage vast data, improving efficiency in search and discovery functions. By applying Scalar and Product Quantization, memory usage decreased significantly while maintaining high recall rates. The platform utilizes SSDs for optimized performance, and it is transitioning to multi-vector models for refined relevance matching. By Olimpiu Pop