A toy remote login server
A toy remote login server
10 Tips for Building Resilient Payment Systems - Shopify
Top ten tips and tricks for building resilient payment systems from a Staff Developer working on Shopify’s payment infrastructure.
Build your own web framework
Historical tutorial for building a web framework on Vercel, updated with current Vercel Functions and Routing Middleware terminology.
Release Radar
It’s been a crazy couple of months with the end of financial year and lots of products shipping. Our community has been hard at work shipping projects too. These projects…
Launching GitHub Community: Powered by GitHub Discussions
Today, we’re launching GitHub Community, which brings together GitHub Community Forum, GitHub Education Forum, and product feedback into a free, in-product, single space for all user-to-user interactions.
Illuminating dark mode
The hidden challenges of a (seemingly) simple request
Announcing the Build Output API
The Build Output API enables any framework, including your own custom-built solution, to take advantage of Vercel’s infrastructure building blocks.
Logical Properties for Useful Shorthands
Michelle Barker with my favorite sorta blog post: short, practical, and leaves you with a valuable nugget for your time. Here, she gets into logical property
Here’s how academic research is shaping GitHub Discussions
We strive to understand how developers collaborate and work on GitHub, and we sometimes partner with academics to better understand how we can improve our products. Here’s how we did that to build and evolve GitHub Discussions.
Open Source Monthly: July 2022 Edition
July’s Open Source Monthly features Zag.js, which leverages state machines to make framework agnostic components.
Working in public — our docs-as-code approach
Besides following a docs-as-code approach, at Cloudflare we handle our documentation changes in a public repository. The contributions we get from the entire Cloudflare community help us make our documentation better every day
25,000 new trees in Nova Scotia
Cloudflare is proud to announce the first 35,000 trees from our commitment to help clean up bad bots (and the climate) have been planted
Smashing Podcast Episode 49 With Paul Boag: How Do You Ship A Billion-Dollar Idea? — Smashing Magazine
In this episode, we ask what qualities are required to introduce change in large organizations, how to convince management to do the right thing, and how to ship a billion-dollar idea. Vitaly talks to expert Paul Boag to find out.
Introducing Focus, a new open source Gradle plugin
NIST’s pleasant post-quantum surprise
On Tuesday, the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced which post-quantum cryptography they will standardize.
Automatic Signed Exchanges may dramatically boost your site visitor numbers
Automatic Signed Exchanges may dramatically boost your site visitor numbers
Announcing support for WASI on Cloudflare Workers
Today, we are announcing experimental support for WASI (the WebAssembly System Interface) on Cloudflare Workers and support within wrangler2 to make it a joy to work with
New WAF intelligence feeds
Cloudflare is expanding our WAF’s threat intelligence capabilities by adding four new managed IP lists that can be used as part of any custom firewall rule
Managing a game dev community with GitHub Actions
A Little Game Called Mario is an open source, collectively developed hell project. Anyone and everyone is welcome to contribute their unique talents to make both the player and developer experience more enjoyable. Find out how the collective leverages GitHub Actions to manage this wonderful little community.
Internet disruptions overview for Q2 2022
In this post, we review selected Internet disruptions observed by Cloudflare during the second quarter of 2022, supported by traffic graphs from Cloudflare Radar and other internal Cloudflare tools.
The Story Behind Shopify’s Isospin Tooling - Shopify
You may have read that Shopify has built an in-house cloud development platform named Spin. In that post, we covered the history of the platform and how it powers our everyday work. In this post, we’ll take a deeper dive into one specific aspect of Spin: Isospin, Shopify’s systemd-based tooling that forms the core of how we run applications within Spin. The initial implementation of Spin used the
A July 4 technical reading list
Here’s a short list of recent technical blog posts to give you something to read today
Collective Nouns for the Web
Melanie Sumner has this super-specific collection of web-related nouns for describing a group or set of something. You know how there's a school or fish or a
Write Better Commits, Build Better Projects
High-quality Git commits are the key to a maintainable and collaborative open- or closed-source project. Learn strategies to improve and use commits to streamline your development process.
Announcing the summer 2022 MLH Fellowship GitHub Contributors
Meet the 2022 MLH Fellowship cohort! This 12-week internship alternative is for aspiring software engineers, and powered by GitHub.
Jump Into July (2022 Desktop Wallpapers Edition) — Smashing Magazine
Let’s welcome the new month with some inspiring desktop wallpapers. Created by artists and designers from across the globe, they come in versions with and without a calendar for July 2022. You can click on every image to see a larger preview. We respect and carefully consider the ideas and motivation behind each and every artist’s work. This is why we give all artists the full freedom to explore t
Internet Explorer, we hardly knew ye
With the recent retirement of Microsoft Internet Explorer 11, we analyzed Internet Explorer traffic trends. Breaking the traffic down by bot score revealed much of this traffic is “likely automated”
Navigating Recurring Payments in India: A Backend Perspective - Shopify
To address the new RBI framework for recurring payments in Shopify’s billing platform, we worked with a local payment provider that could accommodate both card-based payments as well as a local payment method called Unified Payments Interface (UPI).
Notes on running containers with bubblewrap
Notes on running containers with bubblewrap
Remote Development at Slack
In this article, “remote development environments” refer to AWS EC2 instances where engineers make code changes and can see a running Slack application with those changes. For years, engineers at Slack isolated and tested their changes by running microcosms of the Slack application on their local computers. This was difficult for many reasons: it involved…
New partner program for SMB agencies & hosting partners now in closed beta
Today, we want to reinforce our commitment to our hosting ecosystem and small business partners that leverage Cloudflare to help bring a better Internet experience to their customers.
Identifying content gaps in our documentation
As a technical writer, it’s pretty common to do the thing you’re documenting. After all, it’s really hard to write step-by-step instructions if you haven’t been through those steps. It’s also a great opportunity to provide feedback to our product teams
Highlights from Git 2.37
The open source Git project just released Git 2.37. Take a look at some of our highlights from the latest release.
Q&A on 1972
Cloudflare One vs Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange: who is most feature complete? It’s not who you might expect
How does Cloudflare One compare to Zscaler's Trust Exchange. Read on to find out.
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Cloudflare Gateway dedicated egress and egress policies
Cloudflare Gateway customers can now utilize dedicated egress IPs and soon will be able to control how these IPs are applied via egress policies
How to augment or replace your VPN with Cloudflare
Offloading key applications from your traditional VPN to a cloud-native ZTNA solution like Cloudflare Access is a great place to start with Zero Trust and provides an approachable, meaningful upgrade for your business
Introducing ShopifyQL: Our New Commerce Data Querying Language - Shopify
At Shopify, we recognize the positive impact data-informed decisions have on the growth of a business. But we also recognize that data exploration is gated to those without a data science or coding background. To make it easier for our merchants to inform their decisions with data, we built an accessible, commerce-focused querying language. We call it ShopifyQL. ShopifyQL enables Shopify Plus merc
Infinitely extensible Access policies
Starting today, we’re excited that Access policies can consider anything before allowing a user access to an application. And by anything, we really do mean absolutely anything.
Launching In-Line Data Loss Prevention
In-line Data Loss Prevention is launching in the Cloudflare platform. Customers will be able to scan traffic to identify and protect sensitive data
Bring your own license and threat feeds to use with Cloudflare One
Today, we are announcing new integrations that enable our customers to integrate third-party threat intel data with the rich threat intelligence from Cloudflare One products — all within the Cloudflare dashboard
GitHub enables the development of functional safety applications by adding support for coding standards AUTOSAR C++ and CERT C++
GitHub is excited to announce the release of CodeQL queries that implement the standards CERT C++ and AUTOSAR C++. These queries can aid developers looking to demonstrate ISO 26262 Part 6 process compliance.
More on geo-tagging photos with a time element
Reimagining bank transfers
Bank transfers are essential to businesses but have been filled with friction. We’ve developed a better bank transfers solution that’s now available in the UK and EU, as well as Japan and Mexico.
Welcome to Cloudflare One Week
Zero Trust can let your organization do more, let your organization do it better, and all this can come with cost savings.
Release Radar
Each month, we highlight open source projects that have shipped major updates. These projects can include everything from world-changing technology to developer tooling, and weekend hobbies. We cover what the…
Free associating from 'df' to RCE
Cloudflare Zaraz launches new privacy features in response to French CNIL standards
Last week, the French National Data Protection Authority, CNIL, published guidelines for a GDPR-compliant way of loading Google Analytics. Today, Zaraz is launching a new set of features to help our customers use Google Analytics and similar tools, while meeting those strict standards
Git Merge 2022
Git Merge, the conference dedicated to bringing the Git community together returns on September 14-15 in Chicago, Illinois.
Place name mappings probably need a time dimension too
The Guide To Windows High Contrast Mode — Smashing Magazine
In this article, we’ll see how to make our sites friendly for Windows High Contrast Mode. We’ll check a good set of practices we can use for that purpose, and we’ll see the use of the media query `forced-colors` and its toolset to tweak our website as needed.
Exam time means Internet disruptions in Syria, Sudan and Algeria
As they have done over the past several years, Syria and Sudan are implementing multi-hour nationwide Internet shutdowns. Algeria has also taken a similar approach in the past, but this year appears to be implementing more targeted website/app blocking
De-Mystifying IndieWeb on a WordPress Site
Well, sheesh. I opened a little can of worms when sharing Miriam's "Am I on the IndieWeb yet?" with a short post bemoaning my own trouble getting on the
How can the United States build its Open Source Software policy?
We share a recap of a recent roundtable event about what a federal open source software policy could look like in the United States.
Cloudflare is redefining employee well-being in Japan
Cloudflare Japan is making a few important changes to our employee benefits
Useful Tools for Visualizing Databases on a Budget
A diagram is a graphical representation of information that depicts the structure, relationship, or operation of anything. Diagrams enable your audience to
Open Source Monthly: June 2022 Edition
June’s Open Source Monthly features Modos–a community-focused company building software and hardware that designs digital devices with respect for users’ time, attention, and well-being.
AAE-1 & SMW5 cable cuts impact millions of users across multiple countries
On June 7, the Africa-Asia-Europe-1 (AAE-1) and SEA-ME-WE-5 (SMW-5) submarine cables suffered cable cuts, impactingInternet connectivity for millions of Internet users across multiple countries in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia
8 Data Conferences Shopify Data Thinks You Should Attend - Shopify
We asked our data scientists and engineers to curate a list of the top upcoming data conferences for 2022. Whether you’re looking for a virtual conference or in-person learning, we’ve got something that works for everyone.