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GraphQL opens new possibilities for rate limiting. I’ll show you Shopify’s rate limiting system for the GraphQL Admin API and how it addresses some limitations of common methods commonly used in REST APIs.
Stripe launches an extension for Visual Studio Code. Learn more about what features are offered and how to get started.
Since launching in June 2020, Cloudflare TV has featured over 1,000 original live episodes covering an incredible array of topics and we're just getting started.
Come learn about the PKCE OAuth flow! How it works, why it’s valuable, and how to use it to authorize your Dropbox app.
10 hard-earned lessons from controlled experiment, considered the gold standard approach for determining the true effect of a change.
Image placement on the modern web is highly intentional, helping to communicate the overall purpose of a page or view. This means that nearly every image you declare needs to have an alternate description. Nulling an image indicates that it is for decorative purposes only. In this context, decorative means that the image does not visually communicate information that is important to understanding
The latest version of GitHub Desktop allows you to squash commits, squash and merge, reorder, amend your last commit, check out a branch from a previous commit, and more.
Cloudflare and Microsoft Azure Active Directory have partnered to provide an integration specifically for web applications using Azure Active Directory B2C
In this episode of the Smashing Podcast, we’re talking about image optimization. What steps should we follow for performant images in 2021? We talk to expert Addy Osmani to find out.
When you load a file from an external server, you’re trusting that the content you request is what you expect it to be. Since you don’t manage the server
That's the one word that isn't an adjective in the acronym RSS.
As awesome as flexbox is, what it’s doing under the hood is actually a little strange because, by default, it is doing two things at once. It first looks at the content size which is what we would get if by declaring width: max-content on an element. But on top of that, flex-shrink is also doing some work allowing the items to be smaller, but only if needed. Let’s break those two down and see how
What began as a small group effort in 2015 has now turned into a global initiative here at GitHub to amplify Black voices and talent in the tech community.
In May, GitHub shipped a total of 20 new features. We love what we do, but we know it’s a lot to keep up with. So we’re trying something new on the GitHub Blog—a monthly recap of everything that shipped to Changelog in the past month. Check out some of the updates you might have missed.
Building Shopify’s schematization platform for managing Personally Identifiable Information (PII) within our data warehouse.
Every June, we celebrate the anniversary of Project Galileo. This year, we are proud to celebrate seven years of protecting the most vulnerable groups on the Internet from cyberattacks.
Stripe’s SCA engine helps European businesses meet requirements and maximize conversion.
Have you ever experienced the frustration of trying to tap a button on a mobile device only to have it do nothing because the target size is just not large
Reasons why bugs might feel "impossible"
Colin Oakley:
Reflections on Pride month, and how you can participate
We’ve seen some amazing community projects this last month. This was a huge month for your community with hundreds of new releases. There’s everything from world-changing tech to weekend hobbies.…
To prevent cheating in exams many countries restrict or even shut down Internet access during critical exam hours. For most of June Syria is having planned Internet shutdowns during critical exam periods.
Blocks in WordPress are great. Drop some into the page, arrange them how you like, and you’ve got a pretty sweet landing page with little effort. But what if
In May, we experienced two incidents resulting in significant impact to multiple GitHub services.
The other day I was talking to a young developer working on a code base with tons of COM code, and I told him that even before… Read more “Kinda a big announcement”
You can now buy print version of my zines!
Watch all of the videos from Config 2021
Amazon allows visitors to display prices in their own currency. Thanks to *ExchangeRatesApi.io*, we can do the same for our online shops, providing a better experience to our customers. Let’s find out how.
I’m at my best after nine hours’ sleep, so I tend to wake up pretty late, shower and dress as though I’m going into the office. Although I’ve been in Stockholm a while now, I’m still not a fan of the Swedish breakfast of bread and cheese or salami – give me Nutella on toast any day!
I've been using Local for ages. Four years ago, I wrote about how I got all my WordPress sites running locally on it. I just wanted to give it another high
What could be a better way to welcome June than with some colorful inspiration? Well, we might have something for you: wallpapers created with love by artists and designers from across the globe.
I am going to tell you a story about a person that works for Netflix. That person grew up dreaming of working in the entertainment industry. They attended the University of Southern California…
In this article, we’ll be re-using the foundational WYSIWYG Editor built in the first article to build a commenting system for a WYSIWYG Editor that enables users to select text inside a document and share their comments on it. Let’s dig in!
25 quick questions, plus his closing keynote from Config 2021
In his last An Event Apart talk, Dave made a point that it's really only just about right now that Web Components are becoming a practical choice for
Two years ago, hold true:
Over the years, GitHub engineers have developed many ways to observe how our systems behave. We mostly make use of statsd for metrics, the syslog format for plain text logs…
Choosing the right tools to build a website for your organization is essential, but it can be tough to find the right fit. Simple site builders like Wix and
The tactics, processes, and systems that keep teams running
Table of contents Executive summary Key findings Key takeaways for developers and software teams About the study What we found Interruptions and meetings have a large influence on our days…
Whether determining which orders to fulfill first or assessing how their customer acquisition efforts are performing, our merchants rely on data to make informed decisions about their business. In 2013, we made easy-access to data a reality for Shopify merchants with the Analytics.
Mistakes. These cruel villains do not even stop at the beautiful world of software development. But although we cannot avoid making mistakes, we can learn to undo them! In this article, Tobias Günther will show you the right tools for your daily work with Git. You might want to check the first article of the series as well.
By our last estimate, there are now more PDFs in the world than atoms in the universe (not verified by outside sources) so chances are, from time to time,
Blog about what you've struggled with
A comparison of different approaches to operating on an array
Controlling which users are able to take which actions is no simple task. Building this into Slack has always been an interesting challenge. In large enterprise organizations, the standard types of roles we offered to customers were too broad, and delegating a generic admin role can grant someone with too much power — what if…
The theme for Ludum Dare 48 was “deeper and deeper,” which inspired over ten thousand people to create almost four thousand games together over a weekend. As you can imagine,…
With such a complex multi-level navigation, showing the breadth of options requires quite a bit of space. Think of large eCommerce retailers and large corporate sites, catering to many audiences and having plenty of entry points. Do we need mega-dropdown hover menus in 2021? Probably not. Let’s explore things to keep in mind when designing and building a mega-dropdown, alternatives to hover menus
So, if a developer wants to run their next hit, say a real-time multiplayer game, using nothing but their app and Workers, without any servers or traditional infrastructure, can they? Let’s prove they can. Here's Doom Multiplayer running on top of Cloudflare Workers.
GitHub Artifact Exporter provides a CLI and a simple GUI for exporting GitHub Issues and related comments based on a date range, and it supports GitHub’s full search syntax.
