GitHub Availability Report: July 2021
In July, GitHub experienced no incidents resulting in service downtime to our core services.
Helping Keep Governments Safe and Secure
Cloudflare and Accenture Federal Services (AFS) have been selected to deliver a joint solution to help the United States Government defend against cybersecurity attacks.
Reliability meeting experiences
Measurement, benchmarking, and data analysis are underrated
Four Lessons We Learned from Creating Spotify’s Desktop App
TL;DR Over the years, Spotify’s brand has expanded to encompass a number of products, from mobile apps to to . But sitting at the core is our flagship product, the one that started it all: the desktop app. In of our podcast series, “”, host and Chief R&D Officer Gustav Söderström walks through how the app (and Spotify in general) came to be — and the product lessons you should take away from that
Good Vibes In August (2021 Desktop Wallpapers Edition) — Smashing Magazine
New month, new wallpapers! In this post, you’ll find unique and inspiring wallpapers for August 2021. Created with love by the community for the community, they come in versions with and without a calendar for the month.
The Future of Work at Cloudflare
During Impact Week, we've shared how Cloudflare is providing tools for our customers to minimize their environmental impact as well as what we, as a company, are doing to help society at large. But some critical stakeholders we haven’t talked much about yet are Cloudflare's more than 2,000 employees
The Cloudflare Startup Enterprise Plan: helping new startups bootstrap
To help early stage startups get going, Cloudflare is giving away one year of the Startup Enterprise plan to all early stage startups in participating accelerator programs.
Building a sustainable workforce, through communities
At Cloudflare, we place a lot of value on the importance of diversity, equity and inclusion. Diversity, equity, and inclusion lead to better outcomes through improved decision-making, more innovative teams, stronger financial returns and simply a better place to work for everyone.
Cloudflare is joining Pledge 1%
We're excited to announce that Cloudflare is joining Pledge 1%. We're joining the more than 12,000 companies in 100 countries that are committed to making a tangible, positive impact in their communities.
Connecting with Mob Programming - Shopify
Mob programming builds on pair programming but instead of two people pairing, it's an entire mob—more than two people—pairing on the same problem.
Working with those who protect human rights around the world
Today, we are announcing Radar Alerts, a new program to help our civil society partners track and document Internet shutdowns and protect democratic elections around the world from cyberattacks.
Certifying our Commitment to Your Right to Information Privacy
Cloudflare recognizes privacy in personal data as a fundamental human right and has taken a number of steps, including certifying to international standards, to demonstrate our commitment to privacy.
Cloudflare and COVID-19: Project Fair Shot Update
Cloudflare Waiting Room helping organizations around the world to stifle COVID-19 and aid with easy rapid vaccinations.
Project Galileo and The Global Cyber Alliance Cybersecurity Toolkit for Journalists
Independent media and journalists are targeted both physically and online as a result of reporting critical events around the world. Learn how the Global Cyber Alliance and Project Galileo
Cloudflare's Human Rights Commitments
Today, we are releasing our first human rights policy. The policy sets out our commitments and the way we implement them. Cloudflare’s mission — to help build a better Internet — reflects a long-
Crawler Hints: How Cloudflare Is Reducing The Environmental Impact Of Web Searches
Crawler Hints provide high quality data to search engine crawlers on when content has been changed on sites using Cloudflare, allowing them to precisely time their crawling, avoid wasteful crawls, and generally reduce resource consumption of customer origins.
Email Classification
With the release of Slack Connect, people can now collaborate both with internal employees and external organizations in the same channel. To make this as smooth as possible, Slack does predictive email analysis to classify and recommend the best way for a user to work with people they want to collaborate with. To accomplish this,…
Announcing Green Compute on Cloudflare Workers
At Cloudflare, our goal is to bring sustainable computing to you without the need for any additional time, work, or complexity.
Green Hosting with Cloudflare Pages
Cloudflare is proud to announce its collaboration with the Green Web Foundation, a not-for-profit organization with the mission of creating an Internet that one day will run on entirely renewable energy.
ES2021 Features
Hemanth HM very succinctly shows off ES2021 features. Gosh it doesn't feel like that long ago that all we could talk about is ES2015, and now that's over a
Standing up for developers: the GitHub Developer Rights Fellowship at Stanford Law School
GitHub’s Developer Defense Fund will enable independent legal support from the Stanford Juelsgaard Clinic to review and handle appropriate DMCA cases for developers on GitHub and across the software ecosystem.
Announcing Project Pangea: Helping Underserved Communities Expand Access to the Internet For Free
Cloudflare is excited to announce Project Pangea. We’re launching a program that provides secure, performant, reliable access to the Internet for community networks that support underserved communities, and we’re doing it for free because we want to help build an Internet for everyone.
Why I joined Cloudflare — and why I’m excited about Project Pangea
If you are well-prepared to take up the challenge, you will get to experience a moment where you are stepping forward to help build a better world. I felt exactly that when I joined Cloudflare as a Systems Engineer in Austin, Texas.
Understanding Where the Internet Isn’t Good Enough Yet
This week, Cloudflare is announcing Project Pangea, with the goal of helping reduce Internet access inequality.
Demystifying styled-components
Joshua Comeau digs into how styled-components works by re-building the basics. A fun and useful journey.
Welcome to Cloudflare Impact Week
We originally conceived the idea of Impact Week as a way to highlight some of the things we were doing as a company around our environmental, social, and governance (ESG) initiatives.
AWS’s Egregious Egress
Amazon’s says: “We strive to offer our customers the lowest possible prices, the best available selection, and the utmost convenience.” When it comes to egress, their prices are far from the lowest.
Empowering customers with the Bandwidth Alliance
High egress costs from a Cloud limit customers choice in Cloud services. Cloudflare’s Bandwidth Alliance with our cloud partners provides an alternative to this lock-in. Our customers have benefitted from this both via discounted egress costs and choice of storage providers.
Introducing Workers Usage Notifications
Today we’re excited to launch Workers usage notifications that proactively send relevant usage information directly to your inbox.
Adding Time To Your Schedule As A Professional — Smashing Magazine
Are you running a business and have too many things going on at once? Meetings, bugs, customer feedback, new clients in addition to your already tight deadlines? Let’s face it, time management is hard, and it becomes even more difficult in the trying times we are in. Here’s how tools like [Trafft](https://trafft.com) that have meeting scheduling software capabilities can be used to easily set up o
Expanding Cloudflare to 25+ Cities in Brazil
Today, we are excited to announce an expansion we’ve been working on behind the scenes for the last two years: a 25+ city partnership with one of the largest ISPs in Brazil.
A Guide to Running an Engineering Program - Shopify
Shopify has a playbook for huge engineering programs in the past that cross over multiple areas of complexity on the platform, and we’d like to share it with you.
Extending Anvil for Fun and Profit
Note: This article assumes some familiarity with Dagger, Anvil, and Kotlin. We use Dagger heavily in the Slack Android app for compile-time dependency injection. It’s powerful, flexible, supports basic Kotlin idioms, and allows for advanced dependency injection patterns with less boilerplate. It’s not without its sharp edges though. It slows down our builds with kapt,…
How To Migrate From WordPress To A Headless CMS — Smashing Magazine
In this article, Alba Silvente will take a look at when it makes sense to migrate from a monolithic project to a headless setup and the benefits that come with it. In addition to a step-by-step guide on how to migrate WordPress to Storyblok Headless CMS, the problems that will arise during the process and how to deal with them.
How To Learn Stuff Quickly
As software developers, we're always learning new things; it's practically the whole gig! If we can learn to quickly pick up new languages/frameworks/tools, we'll become so much more effective at our job. It's sort of a superpower.
Rich, complex rules for advanced load balancing
Take control of your traffic by adding custom logic to your origin selection and traffic steering decisions!
Keeping creativity flowing when times are tough
Tips for staying creative and collaborative, while having fun
Designing Filters That Work: Best Practices and Guidelines — Smashing Magazine
Too often the filtering experience on the web is broken and frustrating, making it just unnecessarily difficult for customers to get to that shiny comfortable range of relevant results. When designing the next filter, take a look at some of the common issues that you might want to avoid, and hopefully avoid all the frustration that comes from broken and inaccessible implementations.
Jamstack Community Survey 2021
The folks over at Netlify have opened up the Jamstack Community Survey for 2021. More than 3,000 front-enders like yourself took last year's survey, which
What’s new from GitHub Changelog? June 2021 Recap
This month, we have some exciting updates to share. A lot of you have welcomed the improvements to your ability to sync a forked repo with upstream from the web…
Shopify-Made Patterns in Our Rails Apps - Shopify
At Shopify, we’ve developed our own patterns in order to support our global platform. Before coming here, I've developed multiple Ruby (and Rails) applications at multiple growth stages. Because of that, I quickly came to appreciate some workarounds and automation that were created to support the large codebase of Shopify. If there’s something I appreciate about Ruby on Rails, it’s the principle o
The UEFA EURO 2020 final as seen online by Cloudflare Radar
Cloudflare has been publishing statistics about all the teams involved in EURO 2020 and traffic to betting websites, sports newspapers, streaming services and sponsors. Here’s a quick look at some specific highlights from England’s and Italy’s EURO 2020.
Building a Command Line Tool with Nodejs and Fauna
Command line tools are one of the most popular applications we have today. We use command line tools every day, and they range from git, npm or yarn. Command
Write good examples by starting with real code
Write good examples by starting with real code
Transform Rules:"Requests, Transform and Roll Out!"
Perform URL Normalization, URL Rewriting, or Header Modification without having to write a line of code!
GitHub Availability Report: June 2021
In June, we experienced no incidents resulting in service downtime to our core services.
Cloudflare customers can now use Microsoft Azure Data Transfer Routing Preference to enjoy lower data transfer costs
Cloudflare customers can now choose to reduce data transfer cost via the Microsoft Azure Routing Preference Program with just a few clicks.
Body Toggle
I appreciate the clarity of this trick that Mikael Ainalem posted over on Reddit:
I've got one question about Jetpack for you.
And maybe an optional follow-up if you're up for it.
How To Choose A Headless CMS — Smashing Magazine
There is an array of Headless CMSes out there. In this article, we delve into headless CMS features to satisfy your content editors, marketers and yourself as a developer. For the experience headless practitioner, this could be a checklist to see what’s new out there. For those starting out on their headless journey, this could be a guide on what to look for.
Strength in Diversity: APAC Heritage Month
In the United States, May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. This year, we wanted to celebrate this occasion in a more inclusive and comprehensive way, which is why we called our celebration APAC Heritage Month.
Zero-Width Space
The name zero-width space is antithetical, but it's not without uses. In text, maybe you'd use it around slashes because you want to be sure the words are
Understanding GraphQL for Beginners–Part Two - Shopify
In the second part of Understanding GraphQL for Beginners, we’ll learn how to create a GraphQL object and root fields.
Understanding GraphQL for Beginners–Part One - Shopify
As technology evolves, one thing that contrasts REST and is gaining popularity is GraphQL. But what is it exactly? Within this post, we will learn what GraphQL is all about!
Account Takeover Protection and WAF mitigations to help stop Global Brute Force Campaigns
Today, we are making our Account Takeover Protection capabilities available to all paid plans at no additional charge.
Stripe Atlas: the first five years and 20,000 startups
In the past five years, over 20,000 businesses have started with Stripe Atlas and have generated over $3 billion in revenue. We surveyed 1,000 founders—here’s what we found.
The State Of Web Workers In 2021 — Smashing Magazine
The web is single-threaded. This makes it increasingly hard to write smooth and responsive apps. Workers have a bad rep, but can be an important and useful tool in any web developer
The Many Shades Of July (2021 Desktop Wallpapers Edition) — Smashing Magazine
Let’s welcome July with some fresh desktop wallpapers. Designed by artists and designers from around the world, they are available with and without a calendar. Enjoy!
:nth-child Between Two Fixed Indexes
I needed to select some elements between two fixed indexes the other day — like literally the second through fifth elements. Ironically, I have a whole post