
The third quarter of 2024 was particularly active, with quite a few significant Internet disruptions. Underlying causes included government-directed shutdowns, power outages, hurricane damage, terrestrial and submarine cable cuts, military action, and more.
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David Belson, Doug Madory·October 29, 2024Engineering 
Someone asked me this and here's my answer.


At Stripe Tour New York, we shared new ways to orchestrate and grow your revenue with Stripe Billing, including new features to help you better understand your revenue data and give you more flexibility in how you bill for usage.


Pop quiz! What's the difference between a Popover element and a Dialog element? The answer is not all that clear and is widely misunderstood, but Zell has a clear way to explain it so that you know which element to reach for in your work.

Cloudflare’s global fleet benefits from being managed by open source firmware for the Baseboard Management Controller (BMC), OpenBMC. This has come with various challenges, some of which we discuss here with an explanation of how the open source nature of the firmware for the BMC enabled us to fix the issues and maintain a more stable fleet.




Change can certainly be scary whenever a beloved, independent software library becomes a part of a larger organization. I'm feeling a bit more excitement than

Now, it’s easier than ever for nonprofits to receive GitHub product discounts.

In this blog posting I will tell you more about my trip to the PGDay Lowlands 2024. Find out more about my talk and general learnings.

Join us May 6–8 in San Francisco for Stripe Sessions, our annual user conference. We’re doubling the number of breakout sessions, expanding our training program, and adding a demo stage to showcase more of Stripe’s key updates.

I am thrilled to embark on this journey to run Product and Engineering at Cloudflare, driving forward the mission of helping build a better Internet.

We announced increased interoperability, major upgrades to Stripe Billing, new embedded components for financial services, and a lot more.

Git 2.47 is here, with features like incremental multi-pack indexes and more. Check out our coverage of some of the highlights here.

Some notes on upgrading Hugo

RSS is a classic technology that fetches content from websites and feeds it to anyone who subscribes to it with a URL. It’s based on XML, and we can use it to consume the feeds in our own apps. Karin Hendrikse demonstrates how to do exactly that with a static site you can use as your personal RSS reader.

Supabase increased signups through the Vercel Marketplace


Editor's note: This post is updated from time to time to catch up with notable developments. For timely updates, check out mullenweg.wtf or the less-anti-Matt

Building a compute layer that is highly-optimized for interactive workloads, server-rendering, and APIs

We’re pleased to announce that the litigation against Sable has finally concluded on terms that we believe send a strong message to patent trolls everywhere — if you bring meritless patent claims against Cloudflare, we will fight back and we will win.
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Emily Terrell, Patrick Nemeroff·October 2, 2024Engineering 
Let’s take a closer look at some of the stars of the Open Source Zone at GitHub Universe 2024 🔎


Our new release cadence and versioning system combines twice-yearly major updates with monthly feature enhancements, giving you the predictability and clarity that you need to better plan your engineering cycles.

Recapping all the big announcements made during 2024’s Birthday Week.
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Kelly May Johnston, Brendan Irvine Broque·September 30, 2024Engineering 
Sharing the latest data update to our Transparency Center alongside a new research article on what makes moderating a code collaboration platform unique.

Could there be a better way to celebrate the beginning of a new month than with a collection of desktop wallpapers? We’ve got some eye-catching designs to sweeten up your October. Enjoy!

At Cloudflare, we believe in the power of open source. With Project Alexandria, our expanded open source program, we’re helping open source projects have a sustainable and scalable future, providing them with the tools and protection needed to thrive.
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Veronica Marin, Gabby Shires·September 27, 2024Engineering 
We want to make abundantly clear: our free plan is here to stay, and we reaffirmed that commitment this week with 15 releases across our product portfolio that make the Free plan even better.

Cloudflare’s Startup Program now offers up to $250,000 in credits for companies building on our Developer Platform. The program relaunch uses clear and predictable credits so that you can easily see how usage impacts future pricing.
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Christopher Rotas, Melissa Kargiannakis·September 26, 2024Engineering 

We’re reintroducing our Make Designs feature with some key improvements, including a new name—First Draft

So far, most attention to Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) in software development is on generating code. But we believe there is as much, if not more, value in understanding existing code - particularly long-lived, large, and complex legacy systems. We have been experimenting with GenAI for modernization with our clients, embodied in a tool called CodeConcise, which combines a Large Lan
AFAlessio Ferri, Tom Coggrave, and Shodhan Sheth·September 24, 2024Engineering 
I recently launched a brand new version of this blog, and in this post, I share how it’s built! We’ll examine the tech stack and see how all of the pieces fit together, as well as dig into some of the details to see how they work.

As the Internet evolves, Turnstile does too. Introducing Ephemeral IDs — a new dimension in detecting fraudulent activity, bot or human, that links behavior to a specific client instead of an IP address. This makes Turnstile better for everyone, everywhere.

I was looking over an older article Patrick Brosset penned for us introducing <selectmenu>, a new proposal at the time for a more style-able cousin

How we used GitHub to build GitHub Enterprise Cloud with data residency.


After a lot of hard work, you’ve landed that coveted internship. Now comes the next big challenge: delivering a meaningful project over the summer. Leading a project independently is an opportunity to sharpen your skills, demonstrate your capabilities, and experience personal growth. As you drive the project on your own, the support from your mentor…

Cloudflare launched on September 27, 2010. This week we celebrate our fourteenth birthday
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Matthew Prince, Michelle Zatlyn·September 22, 2024Engineering 

For the past two months, all my livelihood has gone towards reading, researching, understanding, writing, and editing about Anchor Positioning, and with many

How VS Code gets developers into the flow state

Looking for ways to code in a more sustainable way? We’ve got you covered with our top list of tools to help lower your carbon footprint.

Open source software underpins all sectors of the economy, public services and even international organizations like the United Nations. How can all its beneficiaries work together to make the open source ecosystem more sustainable?

In September 2024 we have been celebrating partnerships: Our first partner event in our headquarter in Wöllersdorf took place.


What's an internship like at Vercel? Hear firsthand from one of Vercel's summer interns what the process was like, what they worked on, and what they learned.

I collect a bunch of links in a bookmarks folder. These are things I fully intend to read, and I do — eventually. It's a good thing bookmarks are digital,

Bringing data to life in your application can be done without the usual headaches. Paul Scanlon shows you how you can build beautiful data visualizations using the Google Analytics API, and you won’t have to spend any time “massaging” the data.

We surveyed more than 2,000 subscription business leaders from around the world and learned that they increasingly want to experiment with pricing models, but there is one thing in their way: their billing systems.

People tend to think that a SELECT-operation is always a read. This might look obvious and make sense but does it actually hold true?

Workers now supports more NPM packages and Node.js APIs using an overhauled hybrid compatibility layer.

Quite a fun article I worked on with Philip Braunen. Do you know that little bit of elasticity you get when scrolling beyond the viewport when browsing the


Seems like we're always talking about clipping text around here. All it takes is a little browsing to spot a bunch of things we've already explored.

On Spotify’s Analytics Platform, we’re dedicated to building products that empower data practitioners to discover, analyze, and share insights — think notebooks, dashboards, and metrics. To create solutions that connect with our users, it’s critical for us to first understand who our users are. However, the evolving landscape of data roles presents a challenge.