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,
Keyset pagination with descending order
This article shows how to use keyset pagination if you want to sort some columns in ascending and others in descending order.
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 […]
How To Design Effective Conversational AI Experiences: A Comprehensive Guide — Smashing Magazine
This in-depth guide takes you through the three crucial phases of conversational search, revealing how users express their needs, explore results, and refine their queries. Learn how AI agents can overcome communication barriers, personalize the search experience, and adapt to evolving user intent.
GitHub Availability Report: June 2024
In June, we experienced two incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.
Euro 2024’s impact on Internet traffic: a closer look at finalists Spain and England
Here we examine how UEFA Euro 2024 football matches have influenced Internet traffic patterns in participating countries, with a special focus on the two finalists, Spain and England, on their journey
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
Crafting the visual identity for Config 2024
Figma’s Brand Studio on how they designed an immersive, dynamic conference experience—all in one Figma file.
Advancing responsible practices for open source AI
Outcomes from the Partnership on AI and GitHub workshop.
Cloudflare Zaraz adds support for server-side rendering of X and Instagram embeds
We are thrilled to announce Cloudflare Zaraz support for server-side rendering of embeds from X and Instagram. This allows for secure, privacy-preserving, and performant embedding without third-party JavaScript or cookies, enhancing security, privacy, and performance on your website
Taming the tail utilization of ads inference at Meta scale
Tail utilization is a significant system issue and a major factor in overload-related failures and low compute utilization. The tail utilization optimizations at Meta have had a profound impact on model serving capacity footprint and reliability. Failure rates, which are mostly timeout errors, were reduced by two-thirds; the compute footprint delivered 35% more work for […]
Meta’s approach to machine learning prediction robustness
Meta’s advertising business leverages large-scale machine learning (ML) recommendation models that power millions of ads recommendations per second across Meta’s family of apps. Maintaining reliability of these ML systems helps ensure the highest level of service and uninterrupted benefit delivery to our users and advertisers. To minimize disruptions and ensure our ML systems are intrinsically
When Friction Is A Good Thing: Designing Sustainable E-Commerce Experiences — Smashing Magazine
Today, UX design contributes to the problem of excessive consumption through persuasive e-commerce practices and designing for companies with linear and exploitative business models. Anna Rátkai explores practical steps we can take to reduce material consumption and the massive environmental impact that comes along with it by designing mindful shopping experiences.
DDoS threat report for 2024 Q2
Welcome to the 18th edition of the Cloudflare DDoS Threat Report. Released quarterly, these reports provide an in-depth analysis of the DDoS threat landscape as observed across the Cloudflare network. This edition focuses on the second quarter of 2024
RADIUS/UDP vulnerable to improved MD5 collision attack
The RADIUS protocol is commonly used to control administrative access to networking gear. Despite its importance, RADIUS hasn’t changed much in decades. We discuss an attack on RADIUS as a case study for why it’s important for legacy protocols to keep up with advancements in cryptography
"If" CSS Gets Inline Conditionals
A few sirens went off a couple of weeks ago when the CSS Working Group (CSSWG) resolved to add an if() conditional to the CSS Values Module Level 5
Using AI to generate data structures for PostgreSQL
In this blog I decided to show some insights into what can be done by using AI to generate data structures for PostgreSQL.
Exploring the challenges in creating an accessible sortable list (drag-and-drop)
Drag-and-drop is a highly interactive and visual interface. We often use drag-and-drop to perform tasks like uploading files, reordering browser bookmarks, or even moving a card in solitaire.
French elections: political cyber attacks and Internet traffic shifts
Check the dynamics of the 2024 French legislative elections, the surprising election results’ impact on Internet traffic changes, and the cyber attacks targeting political parties
Beginner’s guide to GitHub: Uploading files and folders to GitHub
The next step in our GitHub for Beginners series is learning how to add files and folders to your GitHub repository.
Entering text in the terminal is complicated
Entering text in the terminal is complicated
Useful Customer Journey Maps (+ Figma & Miro Templates) — Smashing Magazine
Visualize the user experience with user journey maps. Here are some helpful templates, real-world applications, and insights on the importance of mapping both successful and unsuccessful touchpoints. Part of [Smart Interface Design Patterns](https://smart-interface-design-patterns.com) by yours truly.
UK election day 2024: traffic trends and attacks on political parties
Here, we explore the dynamics of Internet traffic and cybersecurity during the UK’s 2024 general election, highlighting late-day traffic changes and a post-vote attack on a political party
Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 incident on June 27, 2024
On June 27, 2024, a small number of users globally may have noticed that 1.1.1.1 was unreachable or degraded. The root cause was a mix of BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) hijacking and a route leak
