Blog
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Introducing Age Verification
A new way for users to access innovative social capabilities and age-appropriate content while also ensuring the safety of our community.
| September 21, 2021 -
Celebrating Our 2021 Interns
Our intern class of 2021 has left their mark on the metaverse with fresh and innovative ideas that surpassed all expectations.
| September 09, 2021 -
The Future of Communication in the Metaverse
We believe that the metaverse is for everyone. It follows that the communication capabilities we create must also be for everyone.
| September 02, 2021 -
Express Yourself with Display Names
Use the name you want. Here’s how.
| June 28, 2021 -
Hack Week Returns for Another Innovative Year
Our first fully remote Hack Week brings 86 new projects from concept to creation.
| March 18, 2021 -
2020 Reflections & Looking Ahead to 2021
A look back at the technical innovations of 2020 from our founder and CEO, David Baszucki.
| February 11, 2021 -
Skinned Meshes: A Visual Showcase
Skinned meshes are enabling creators to achieve higher visual fidelity in their experiences.
| November 23, 2020 -
How We Redesigned a Highly Scaled Data Store to Lower 99th Percentile Latency 100x
Roblox hosts millions of concurrent games, tracking their stats in the Roblox Game Instances Service.
| November 20, 2020 -
The Future Is Bright: Updating Lighting Systems in Roblox
Exploring the costs and benefits of two different methods for improving lighting in Roblox, and how we tackled them as we upgraded our systems.
| November 06, 2020 -
Expanding the Developer Marketplace
Get a glimpse inside the future of the developer marketplace.
| November 03, 2020 -
A Mathematical Explanation of Deep Learning
Exploring some of the models and principles of deep learning.
| October 22, 2020 -
Protecting Users Against Cross-Site Request Forgery
Applying web security across several frontend stacks.
| October 01, 2020 -
Building Microservices Driven by Performance
Reaching high-performant microservices by shifting our development mindset.
| September 18, 2020 -
Improving Server Resource Usage by Tracking Memory Leaks
Increasing performance by maximizing game server capacity.
| August 28, 2020 -
How to Plan a Luau: Augmenting Lua’s Syntax With Types
Expanding the features of Roblox’s programming language of choice.
| August 14, 2020 -
Improving Simulation and Performance with an Advanced Physics Solver
Creating better fidelity through the Projected Gauss-Seidel solver.
| August 05, 2020 -
Roblox Physics: Building a Better Sleep System
Using Newton’s first law to optimize our engine.
| July 30, 2020