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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
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 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
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.
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
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
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
In this blog I decided to show some insights into what can be done by using AI to generate data structures for PostgreSQL.
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.
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
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
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.
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
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
Function streaming now framework-agnostic on Vercel.
To help preserve a safe Internet for content creators, we’ve just launched a brand new “easy button” to block all AI bots. It’s available for all customers, including those on our free tier
How Cloudflare mitigated DDoS attacks targeting French political parties during the 2024 legislative elections, as detailed in our ongoing election coverage
Reasons to use your shell's job control
Read about my impressions from the Swiss PGDay 2024 and learn why you should attend PostgreSQL conferences yourself.
Slack Data Engineering recently underwent data workload migration from AWS EMR 5 (Spark 2/Hive 2 processing engine) to EMR 6 (Spark 3 processing engine). In this blog, we will share our migration journey, challenges, and the performance gains we observed in the process. This blog aims to assist Data Engineers, Data Infrastructure Engineers, and Product…
Car rides have become connected and interactive these days with drivers jamming to music or catching up on podcasts or audiobooks while they’re on the road. A big portion of Spotify listening happens in the car — a key reason why it’s important for Spotify to ensure users have a smooth experience in the car, striking the perfect balance between safety, simplicity, and control. Achieving such balan
Let’s welcome the new month with some fresh desktop wallpapers! Created by artists and designers from across the globe, they come in versions with and without a calendar for July 2024. Enjoy!
