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Cloud Native Computing Foundation Accepts Backstage as a Sandbox Project
If you hear faint whooping in the background of your playlists today, it’s just us celebrating a new milestone for Spotify’s open source efforts: has accepted , our open source developer portal, as an early stage project in the . It’s just the first step in a longer journey with the CNCF, but it’s an important one for Spotify as it underlines our renewed commitment to open source — and developers
Lemonade from Lemons: Tiny Desk Conference
In 2019, we began planning for Spotify’s second engineering conference set to take place in April 2020. It was expected to have about 1,500 attendees from a dozen different cities — seven separate tracks running for three days jam-packed with talks and, of course, social events, similar to the year before. The event was organized by 16 engineers from different parts of Spotify with added support f
Spotify Unwrapped 2019: How We Built an In-App Experience Just for You
As we prepare to launch , we remind ourselves of the challenges we took on and lessons learned to make this year’s experience even better for audio fans, like you, around the world.
Listening Together, Miles Apart
Every second more than 30,000 people around the world press play on the same song on Spotify. Imagine if you could somehow see these musical connections as they were happening and connecting us with people we’ve never met, miles apart.
Asynchronous HTMLRewriter for Cloudflare Workers
HTMLRewriter for Cloudflare Workers now supports asynchronous handlers, allowing developers to prefetch assets or user-specific content from a remote service.
Demystifying Django’s Magic — Smashing Magazine
In this article, Precious Ndubueze will be taking an in-depth look at what Django brings to the table by understanding what the generated files and folder do, this will give us a better understanding of the Django framework. It’s important to know that it will not be possible to take a look at everything happening inside of Django. For cases outside the scope of this tutorial, there will be links
Monorepos
How to Track State with Type 2 Dimensional Models - Shopify
In this post, I’ll show how you can create Type 2 dimensional models using modern ETL tooling like PySpark and dbt (data build tool).
Autonomy Online: A Case For The IndieWeb — Smashing Magazine
Nowadays whether you’re consuming or sharing content on the web, it is likely to be via a big website. Twitter, Youtube, or a Facebook-owned service are popular examples. Whilst this gives us the advantage of being able to participate in a larger conversation at almost no monetary cost, there is also the downside of potentially losing all our content if a company closes, as has happened in the pas
Adacats Mentorship Program: A growth journey
Last year, the Adacats (GitHub’s employee resource group for marginalized genders) started a mentorship program. We’re sharing insights and fun stories from this experience for anyone interested in starting a…
Comparing Data in Google and Netlify Analytics
Jim Nielsen:
ShipIt! Presents: A Look at Shopify's API Health Report - Shopify
Shuting Chang, Robert Saunders, Karen Xie, and Vrishti Dutta join us to talk about Shopify’s API Health Report, the tool built to surface breaking changes affecting Shopify Partner apps.
How To Create Customer-Centric Landing Pages — Smashing Magazine
Customer needs should be one of the primary considerations when designing a website or landing page. The era of customer-centric landing pages has dawned. And if your job involves being concerned with metrics like conversion, engagement, and bounce-rates, this is a post that you may want to sit straight up for. In this article, Travis Jamison explains why customer-centricity is so important and ho
Favor Progress Over Pride in Open Source
How I deprecated my most popular open source project in favor of a better library
How To Build Your Own Comment System Using Firebase — Smashing Magazine
Ever wanted to have a comments section for your blog, but were overwhelmed by the high cost and maintenance solutions? Firebase can be your savior. In this guide, Aman Thakur will show you how to add a comments section to your blog with Firebase, while learning the basics of Firebase on the way. Let’s build a super-simple comments section.
Libraries and dependencies I'm willing to take
Optimize Images with a GitHub Action
I was playing with GitHub Actions the other day. Such a nice tool! Short story: you can have it run code for you, like run your build processes, tests, and
How Shopify Reduced Storefront Response Times with a Rewrite - Shopify
We rewrote critical software that powers all online storefronts on Shopify, offering the fastest online shopping experience, entirely from scratch and without downtime.
New and improved Workers Docs
Following user feedback about Workers Docs, we reorganized and reformatted all of our content. The documentation is now intuitive to navigate and the content is now easy and enjoyable to read.
Implementing 'focus and reply' for Fastmail with JMAP
Implementing 'focus and reply' for Fastmail with JMAP
Election Cybersecurity: Protecting the 2020 U.S. Elections.
At Cloudflare, we believe that expanding access to tools that election officials and political candidates need to combat a range of online threats both serves our mission to help build a better Internet and strengthens our democracy.
Baking those potatoes with microservices and vendors
Why I joined Cloudflare
Customer Service. Business. Growth. While these three make up a large portion of what keeps most enterprise companies operating, they are just the beginning at Cloudflare. I am excited to share that I have joined Cloudflare as its Chief Customer Officer.
That's Just How I Scroll
How do you know a page (or any element on that page) scrolls? Well, if it has a scrollbar, that's a pretty good indication. You might still have to scrapple
We are a spectrum of jobs, not just one
Building Reliable Mobile Applications - Shopify
Merchants worldwide rely on Shopify's Point Of Sale (POS) app to operate their brick and mortar stores. Unlike many mobile apps, the POS app is mission-critical. Any downtime leads to long lineups, unhappy customers, and lost sales. The POS app must be exceptionally reliable, and any outages resolved quickly. Reliability engineering is a well-solved problem on the server-side. Back-end teams are a
A Smashing Guide To The World Of Search Engine Optimization — Smashing Magazine
SEO is an ever-changing world. Blink and you’ll miss the latest best practices, thought leaders, and tools. Feeling out of touch is natural. Every tweak to major search engine algorithms sends shockwaves throughout the web. For those who don’t follow the SEO space it can be easy to lose track of the latest trends, authorities, and resources. That’s what this page is for. It will break down SEO’s h
An open letter about my gap year
Student Fellow Abigail Africa shares advice from mentors and reflects on the value of education
Some possible future zines
Some possible future zines
4 Lessons Web App Designers Can Learn From Google — Smashing Magazine
The first place Suzanne Scacca goes to whenever she’s curious about what more could be done to improve our users experiences is the Google Developers site or Think with Google to pull the latest consumer data. There’s a reason why Google dominates market share for things like search engines, web browsers, email clients and cloud storage services. It knows exactly what consumers want and it has des
How Clipchamp integrated with Dropbox to make video editing easy for all
Learn how Clipchamp integrated with Dropbox to make video editing easy for anyone and empower people to share stories through video.
GitHub ¡Presente! na América Latina
Nós do GitHub estamos animados em anunciar nosso meetup virtual na América Latina, o GitHub ¡Presente!
Smashing Podcast Episode 22 With Chris Coyier: What Is Serverless? — Smashing Magazine
We’re talking about Serverless architectures. What does that mean, and how does it differ from how we might build sites currently? Drew McLellan talks to Chris Coyier to find out.
zerodivs.com
Pretty neat little website from Joan Perals, inspired by stuff like Lynn's A Single Div. With multiple hard-stop background-image gradients, you don't need
How getting into Open Source has been awesome for me
An anecdotal argument for contributing and using open source
Tripping over the potholes in too many libraries
Thoughts on recent world events and writing about tech
An attempt to make a font look more handwritten
An attempt to make a font look more handwritten
Every Website is an Essay
Every website that’s made me oooo and aaahhh lately has been of a special kind; they’re written and designed like essays. There’s an argument, a playfulness
font-weight: 300 considered harmful
Tomáš Janoušek:
How To Create A Porsche 911 With Sketch (Part 3) — Smashing Magazine
This is the third and final part of the tutorial in which we’ll create the wheels (rims and tires), and add all the final touches (including the racing decals on the car’s body).
Chapter 1: Birth
Sir Tim Berners-Lee is fascinated with information. It has been his life’s work. For over four decades, he has sought to understand how it is mapped and
GitHub Actions: Enterprise runners and fine-grained access settings with runner groups
GitHub Actions hosted virtual environments are a turn-key option for running your workflows. But if you need fine-grained control and customization of your environment, then self-hosted runners give you full…
GitHub Availability Report: July 2020
Last month we introduced GitHub’s monthly availability report to address service disruptions and share our learnings with the community.
Jetpack CRM
About a year ago, Automattic bought up Zero BS CRM. The thinking at the time was that it could be rebranded into the Jetpack suite and, well, that happened.
GitHub Actions self-hosted runners on Google Cloud
Learn about patterns for configuring and maintaining GitHub Actions self-hosted runners on Google Cloud.
My living room intern experience at Cloudflare
For the past twelve weeks, I’ve had the pleasure of working as a Legal Intern at Cloudflare. This blogpost goes over a few key things that set this internship apart from even those in which I’ve been able to connect with people in-person.
Friction Logs
I first heard the term "Friction Log" from Suz Hinton back in April on ShopTalk. The idea makes an extreme amount of sense: Use a thing, and write down
GitHub Actions improvements for fork and pull request workflows
Today GitHub Actions shipped a series of features designed to improve your workflows when working with PRs from repository forks. New settings for private repository forks Many GitHub customers choose…
useState lazy initialization and function updates
When to pass a function to useState and setState
How We Use Golden Paths to Solve Fragmentation in Our Software Ecosystem
“His spice-induced visions show him a myriad of possible futures where humanity has become extinct and only one where humanity survives. He names this future ‘The Golden Path’ and resolves to bring it to fruition.”
Making magic: Reimagining Developer Experience for the World of Serverless
Today I’m going to talk about TTFD, or time to first dopamine, and announce a huge improvement to the Workers development experience — wrangler dev.
The Serverlist: Workers Unbound, 0ms Cold Start Time, and more!
Check out our eighteenth edition of The Serverlist below. Get the latest scoop on the serverless space, get your hands dirty with new developer tutorials, engage in conversations with other serverless developers, and find upcoming meetups and conferences to attend.
How To Create A Porsche 911 With Sketch (Part 2) — Smashing Magazine
This tutorial is for illustrators who also happen to be passionate car enthusiasts. If you follow me along, you will learn how to draw from scratch in Sketch the legendary Porsche 911, all in vectors. Together, we will be pushing Sketch to its limits and you will learn how to create an almost photo realistic car by using basic shapes, layer styles, and various Sketch features. No bitmap images wil
Making Memories To Last (August 2020 Wallpapers Edition) — Smashing Magazine
Do you need a little inspiration boost? Well, then our new batch of wallpapers is for you. In this post, Cosima Mielke brings you wallpapers for August 2020. All of them are available in versions with and without a calendar — to help you count down the days to a big deadline (or a few days off, maybe?) or continue to use your favorite even after the month has ended. You decide. A big thank-you to
Bringing Your Own IPs to Cloudflare (BYOIP)
Today we’re thrilled to announce general availability of Bring Your Own IP (BYOIP) across our Layer 7 products as well as Spectrum and Magic Transit services.
Eliminating cold starts with Cloudflare Workers
A “cold start” is the time it takes to load and execute a new copy of a serverless function for the first time. It’s a problem that’s both complicated to solve and costly to fix.
Getting the Most Out of Variable Fonts on Google Fonts
I have spent the past several years working (alongside a bunch of super talented people) on a font family called Recursive Sans & Mono, and it just
Now Available: Dropbox Embedder
The Dropbox Embedder is officially released and already being used in the wild. Developers can use the Embedder to embed Dropbox content on non-Dropbox surfaces.