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Performance — How to choose the best rendering strategy for your app

How to choose the best rendering strategy for your app

Demystify Next.js rendering strategies: SSG, SSR, CSR, ISR, and PPR. Optimize your web apps for performance, SEO, and user experience. Learn when and how to use each approach with real-world examples and practical tips for modern web development.

VVercel·July 23, 2024Performance
AI & ML — Meet Caddy – Meta’s next-gen mixed reality CAD software

Meet Caddy – Meta’s next-gen mixed reality CAD software

What happens when a team of mechanical engineers get tired of looking at flat images of 3D models over Zoom? Meet the team behind Caddy, a new CAD app for mixed reality. They join Pascal Hartig (@passy) on the Meta Tech Podcast to talk about teaching themselves to code, disrupting the CAD software space, how […]

CWChris Wiltz·July 18, 2024AI & ML
Engineering — Q2 2024 Internet disruption summary

Q2 2024 Internet disruption summary

Government directed shutdowns and cable cuts were both significant sources of Internet outages in Q2 2024. This post explores these disruptions, as well as others caused by power outages, maintenance,

DBDavid BelsonDavid Belson·July 16, 2024Engineering
SRE & Ops — AI Lab: The secrets to keeping machine learning engineers moving fast

AI Lab: The secrets to keeping machine learning engineers moving fast

The key to developer velocity across AI lies in minimizing time to first batch (TTFB) for machine learning (ML) engineers. AI Lab is a pre-production framework used internally at Meta. It allows us to continuously A/B test common ML workflows – enabling proactive improvements and automatically preventing regressions on TTFB. AI Lab prevents TTFB regressions […]

CWChris Wiltz·July 16, 2024SRE & Ops
Security — Application Security report: 2024 update

Application Security report: 2024 update

Cloudflare’s updated 2024 view on Internet cyber security trends spanning global traffic insights, bot traffic insights, API traffic insights, and client-side risks

MTMichael Tremante, SabinaMichael Tremante, Sabina·July 11, 2024Security