PGconf.de 2024 in Munich
I had the pleasure of attending PGConf.de in Munich on April 12, 2024. Here I report on my experiences and insights.
The world’s fair of software: Join us at GitHub Universe 2024
Ten years of our global developer event! Celebrate with us by picking up in-person tickets today. It’s bound to be our best one yet.
Releasing safe and cost-efficient blue-green deployments
Learn how Vercel's platform primitives enable safe and scalable blue-green deployments that mitigate the risks of rolling out new software versions.
All In Africa: New cohort now open!
As we’re opening up the doors to our final class of this programmatic year, we’re also looking back at our recent graduates and the partners that helped make them a success.
Uncovering the Seams in Mainframes for Incremental Modernisation
Mainframe systems continue to run much of the world's computing workload, but it's often difficult to add new features to support growing business needs. Furthermore the architectural challenges that make them slow to enhance also make them hard to replace. To reduce the risk involved, we should use an incremental approach to legacy displacement, gradually replacing legacy capabilities with implem
Notes on git's error messages
Notes on git's error messages
Going in circles without a real-time clock
Total eclipse of the Internet: traffic impacts in Mexico, the US, and Canada
Cloudflare’s data shows a clear impact on Internet traffic from Mexico to the US, and Canada, following the path of totality of the total solar eclipse that occurred on April 8, 2024
Explore the seasons of software development with four full years of data
Discover the latest trends and insights on public software development activity on GitHub with the release of Q4 2023 data for the Innovation Graph.
Developer Week 2024 wrap-up
Developer Week 2024 has officially come to a close. Here’s a quick recap of the announcements and in-depth technical explorations that went out last week
Community Update: empowering startups building on Cloudflare and creating an inclusive community
We’re excited to close out Developer Week by sharing updates on our Workers Launchpad program, our latest Developer Challenge, and the work we’re doing to ensure our community spaces – like our Discord and Community forums – are safe and inclusive for all developers
The Things Users Would Appreciate In Mobile Apps — Smashing Magazine
What can we do to make a mobile app better? What subsidiary features are worth providing for our users? I have some ideas. You might, too. So, let’s compare our notes. Without any prescriptions attached, here are seven features I believe can palpably improve a user’s experience with a mobile app.
What’s new with Cloudflare Media: updates for Calls, Stream, and Images
With Cloudflare Calls in open beta, you can build real-time, serverless video and audio applications. Cloudflare Stream lets your viewers instantly clip from ongoing streams
Improved infrastructure pricing
We're reducing pricing on Vercel fundamentals like bandwidth and functions.
R2 adds event notifications, support for migrations from Google Cloud Storage, and an infrequent access storage tier
We’re excited to announce three new features for Cloudflare R2: event notifications, support for migrations from Google Cloud Storage, and an infrequent access storage tier
Data Anywhere with Pipelines, Event Notifications, and Workflows
We make it easy to build scalable, reliable, data-driven applications, so we’re announcing a new Event Notifications framework; our take on durable execution; and a streaming ingestion service.
Continuing our work with CISA and the Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative to keep vulnerable communities secure online
Along with CISA and the Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative, we are spotlighting threats to civil society, best practices for online protection, and new resources specifically for these vulnerable
autoconf makes me think we stopped evolving too soon
Making crochet cacti
Making crochet cacti
Data Platform Explained Part I
As engineers working at Spotify, we frequently find ourselves explaining our robust data platform to fellow professionals who are contemplating embarking on a similar venture within their organizations. Despite the number of articles, blog posts, and talks one can find online, it can be challenging to digest the information about the building blocks of a data platform, how to start building one, a
Welcome to Developer Week 2024
We’re kicking off 2024’s Developer Week, and we’re excited to welcome you to the week and give you a small preview of what to expect, and how we’re thinking about the future of our platform
Colorful Blossoms And Rainy Days (April 2024 Wallpapers Edition) — Smashing Magazine
Could there be a better way to welcome the new month than with a little inspiration boost? We might have one for you: desktop wallpapers created by the community for the community. Enjoy!
Empowering women through open source
A discussion about how tech is aiding organizations fighting for gender equality, what it means to be a woman in tech and the world today, and advice on how we all move forward.
Some Git poll results
Some Git poll results
Game Bytes
Game Bytes is our monthly series taking a peek at the world of gamedev on GitHub—featuring game engine updates, game jam details, open source games, mods, maps, and more. Game on!
The Future Of User Research: Expert Insights And Key Trends — Smashing Magazine
Based on responses from over 1,200 product professionals, Maze’s Future of User Research Report uncovers how product teams conduct research to inform decision-making and build successful products. Learn about the top three trends defining the user research industry in 2024 and beyond.
Migrate to CYPEX
It is very easy to migrate your data with CYPEX. Try it out.
The "current branch" in git
The "current branch" in git
Insider newsletter digest: 4 things you didn’t know you could do with GitHub Projects
Unlock the secret to organization and collaboration magic with our GitHub Projects tips and tricks roundup.
Port-scanning the fleet and trying to put out fires
Better video for mobile RTC with AV1 and HD
At Meta, we support real-time communication (RTC) for billions of people through our apps, including Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp. We’ve seen significant benefits by adopting the AV1 codec for RTC. Here’s how we are improving the RTC video quality for our apps with tools like the AV1 codec, the challenges we face, and how we […]
Redefining fleet management at Cloudflare
Growing pains were inevitable given the sheer pace of Cloudflare’s growth. Processes around server provisioning, maintenance windows, repairs, and diagnostics reporting were reaching their limits
23 prototyping resources to bookmark right now
These resources will help you level up your process, whether you’re new to prototyping or ready to dive deeper.
Sketchnotes And Key Takeaways From SmashingConf Antwerp 2023 — Smashing Magazine
How was the first SmashingConf in Antwerp, you ask? One of our online attendees, Krisztina Szerovay, shares her sketchnotes and takeaways of the talks that were held on both days of the conference — with photos and recordings saved as best for last. [See you live in Antwerp this year, maybe?](https://smashingconf.com/antwerp-2024)
The Return of the Frame Pointers
Upcoming Let’s Encrypt certificate chain change and impact for Cloudflare customers
Let’s Encrypt’s cross-signed chain will be expiring. To prepare for, Cloudflare will issue certs from Let’s Encrypt’s ISRG X1 chain. This change impacts legacy devices with outdated trust stores.
It’s a sellers’ market(place)
Today, the most innovative changes in marketplaces are about providing more value to sellers. Many of them hinge on the kind of financial infrastructure Stripe provides.
Event Calendars For Web Made Easy With These Commercial Options — Smashing Magazine
Collection of top-notch calendar components for seamless event scheduling. Whether you prefer ready-to-use setups or enjoy tweaking code for a tailored experience, these calendars have you covered.
Stripe Apps more than doubles in size, offers new ways to discover apps
Through app collections and embeddable apps, Stripe is providing more ways to discover tools that help businesses work more effectively.
Harnessing chaos in Cloudflare offices
This blog post will cover the new sources of “chaos” that have been added to LavaRand and how you can make use of that harnessed chaos in your next application
How HEAD works in git
How HEAD works in git
Cloudflare protects global democracy against threats from emerging technology during the 2024 voting season
In 2024, more than 80 national elections are slated to occur, directly impacting approximately 4.2 billion individuals. At Cloudflare, we’re ready to support a range of players in the election space
Exploring an increase in circumvention claims in our transparency data
Our full year of 2023 transparency reporting data is now available and we’re taking a deep dive into how a form change caused an abrupt increase in circumvention claims.
Cloudflare treats SASE anxiety for VeloCloud customers
The turbulence in the SASE market is driving many customers to seek help. We’re doing our part to help VeloCloud customers who are caught in the crosshairs of shifting strategies
Zero Trust WARP: tunneling with a MASQUE
This blog discusses the introduction of MASQUE to Zero Trust WARP and how Cloudflare One customers will benefit from this modern protocol
What if we rotate pairs every day?
Benefits of pair programming are widely accepted but advice around pair rotation remains controversial. When and how frequently should teammates rotate pairs? And… What if we rotate pairs every day? We worked with three teams through an exercise of daily pair rotation. We developed a lightweight methodology to help teams reflect on the benefits and challenges of pairing and how to solve them. Init
Introducing feature flag management from the Vercel Toolbar
Uplevel your flags workflow with the Vercel Toolbar
Securing Cloudflare with Cloudflare: a Zero Trust journey
A deep dive into how we have deployed Zero Trust at Cloudflare while maintaining user privacy
Announcing two highly requested DLP enhancements: Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and Source Code Detections
Cloudflare One now supports Optical Character Recognition and detects source code as part of its Data Loss Prevention (DLP) service
Patterns of Legacy Displacement
When faced with the need to replace existing software systems, organizations often fall into a cycle of half-completed technology replacements. Our experiences have taught us a series of patterns that allow us to break this cycle, relying on: a deliberate recognition of the desired outcomes of displacing the legacy software, breaking this displacement in parts, incrementally delivering these parts
Sometimes the dam breaks even after plenty of warnings
Open source key areas for digital autonomy
The main questtion is: How do you bring free and open source initiatives and something as regulated as the European Union?
Face cams: the missing guide
I try to avoid doing “meta” / “behind the scenes” stuff, because I usually feel like it has to be “earned”. How many YouTube channels are channels about making YouTube videos? Too many. Regardless, because I’ve had the opportunity to make my own mistakes now for a few years (I started doing the video thing in earnest in 2019), and because I’ve recently made a few leaps in quality-of-life re: shoot
How web bloat impacts users with slow devices
Risk-Aware Product Decisions in A/B Tests with Multiple Metrics
TL;DR We summarize the findings in our recent paper, , where we explain how Spotify’s decision-making engine works and how the results of multiple metrics in an A/B test are combined into a single product decision. Metrics can be of different types, and we consider success metrics (superiority tests), guardrail metrics (non-inferiority tests), deterioration metrics (inferiority tests), and quality
polyfill.io now available on cdnjs: reduce your supply chain risk
Polyfill.io is now available on cdnjs to reduce the risk of supply chain attacks. Replace your polyfill.io links today for a seamless experience
Zaraz launches new pricing
The new Cloudflare Zaraz pricing makes Zaraz the most affordable way to load third-party tools on your website, starting with 1 million free events per month and all features unlocked
Game Bytes
Game Bytes is our monthly series taking a peek at the world of gamedev on GitHub—featuring game engine updates, game jam details, open source games, mods, maps, and more. Game on! 🕹️
Meet Kayla: A college student and open source ambassador
From learner to mentor, Kayla, an All In for Students ambassador, has become an open source leader on her campus.