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Business acquisitions are common but often shrouded in mystery because they happen behind closed doors. In this article, Yaakov details the story of his company and the journey it took him on, shedding light on the process of selling a business and what he learned from the experience.

Learn how GitHub’s Enterprise Cloud, GitHub Actions, and Arm’s latest Automotive Enhanced processors, work together to usher in a new era of efficient, scalable, and flexible automotive software creation.

Free-tier pricing is a common marketing strategy. “Free” gets people in the door and allows them to settle in and see how things work. But, as Juan Diego Rodriguez explains, the practice of free *tiers* is often conflated with free *trials*. And while the distinction may be nuanced, the consequences of sunsetting free-tier pricing may be huge.


Before the pgconf.de, a few contributors to the Patroni project met to discuss the past, present and future of this framework for PostgreSQL HA. Find out more.

How we cut build times by 50% and shipped a solution for scale.

New zine: How Git Works!

Conducting UX research that includes participants with a variety of disabilities is vital to building inclusive technology, but most prototypes used for testing are inaccessible. Rather than continuing to leave out feedback from disabled consumers, which ultimately leads to exclusive technology, researchers must get creative in their workarounds and be relentless in their efforts.

We’ve dramatically increased 2FA adoption on GitHub as part of our responsibility to make the software ecosystem more secure. Read on to learn how we secured millions of developers and why we’re urging more organizations to join us in these efforts.

This article illustrates how AI can be leveraged to build tools that can be inclusive with a little bit of an additional effort.

We announced AI-powered payments, our biggest-ever upgrades to Stripe Connect, new support for usage-based billing, increased interoperability, and a lot more.

During Developer Week 2024, Cloudflare announced revamped SDKs, automatically generated from OpenAPI schemas. This post details the pipeline's workings and lessons learned.

Scrolling, scanning, skipping: How do users consume content online? Here’s what you need to know about reading behavior and design strategies to prevent harmful scanning patterns. An upcoming part of Smart Interface Design Patterns.

Latency numbers every web developer should know

This Earth Day, we discuss how tech and open source are helping two organizations combat the effects of a changing climate.

What options do we have for integrating GraphQL with WordPress in 2024? Leonardo Losoviz describes the developments that have taken place in this space over the last three years.

Gartner has once again named Cloudflare to the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Security Service Edge (SSE) report

Figma’s editorial newsletter about how products take shape—and shape our world.


We’re asking for feedback on a proposed Acceptable Use Policy update to address the use of synthetic and manipulated media tools for non-consensual intimate imagery and disinformation while protecting valuable research.

At Slack, we’ve long been conservative technologists. In other words, when we invest in leveraging a new category of infrastructure, we do it rigorously. We’ve done this since we debuted machine learning-powered features in 2016, and we’ve developed a robust process and skilled team in the space. Despite that, over the past year we’ve been…


Learn about how Cloudflare's Cloud Email Security tackles QR phishing, why attackers favor QR codes, and Cloudflare's proactive defense strategy against evolving threats