23 prototyping resources to bookmark right now
These resources will help you level up your process, whether you’re new to prototyping or ready to dive deeper.
Measuring Developer Productivity via Humans
Measuring developer productivity is a difficult challenge. Conventional metrics focused on development cycle time and throughput are limited, and there aren't obvious answers for where else to turn. Qualitative metrics offer a powerful way to measure and understand developer productivity using data derived from developers themselves. Organizations should prioritize measuring developer productivity
Gaining kernel code execution on an MTE-enabled Pixel 8
In this post, I’ll look at CVE-2023-6241, a vulnerability in the Arm Mali GPU that allows a malicious app to gain arbitrary kernel code execution and root on an Android phone. I’ll show how this vulnerability can be exploited even when Memory Tagging Extension (MTE), a powerful mitigation, is enabled on the device.
Logarithm: A logging engine for AI training workflows and services
Systems and application logs play a key role in operations, observability, and debugging workflows at Meta. Logarithm is a hosted, serverless, multitenant service, used only internally at Meta, that consumes and indexes these logs and provides an interactive query interface to retrieve and view logs. In this post, we present the design behind Logarithm, and […]
Sketchnotes And Key Takeaways From SmashingConf Antwerp 2023 — Smashing Magazine
How was the first SmashingConf in Antwerp, you ask? One of our online attendees, Krisztina Szerovay, shares her sketchnotes and takeaways of the talks that were held on both days of the conference — with photos and recordings saved as best for last. [See you live in Antwerp this year, maybe?](https://smashingconf.com/antwerp-2024)
Leonardo generates 4.5M images daily with Next.js and Vercel
WordPress monolith to Vercel: How Personio elevated site performance and efficiency
The Return of the Frame Pointers
Improved Cloudflare Workers testing via Vitest and workerd
Today, we’re excited to announce a new Workers Vitest integration - allowing you to write unit and integration tests via the popular testing framework, Vitest, that execute directly in our runtime, workerd
Mitigating a token-length side-channel attack in our AI products
The Workers AI and AI Gateway team recently collaborated closely with security researchers at Ben Gurion University regarding a report submitted through our Public Bug Bounty program. Through this process, we discovered and fully patched a vulnerability affecting all LLM providers. Here’s the story
Undersea cable failures cause Internet disruptions for multiple African countries
Internet connectivity in several African countries was disrupted on March 14, 2024, beginning at approximately 05:00 UTC. Based on published reports and social media posts from impacted network providers, the disruption is believed to be due to multiple undersea cable failures in the region
Upcoming Let’s Encrypt certificate chain change and impact for Cloudflare customers
Let’s Encrypt’s cross-signed chain will be expiring. To prepare for, Cloudflare will issue certs from Let’s Encrypt’s ISRG X1 chain. This change impacts legacy devices with outdated trust stores.
Listing the contents of all team-accessible namespaces
Learn how to list the contents of all of the namespaces across all members of a team using the Dropbox API
How Figma’s databases team lived to tell the scale
Our nine month journey to horizontally shard Figma’s Postgres stack, and the key to unlocking (nearly) infinite scalability.
Brief History of Scaling Uber
This blog post was written by Josh Clemm, Senior Director of Engineering at Uber Eats. This is a repost from his LinkedIn article, approved by the author. On a cold evening in Paris in 2008, Travis Kalanick and Garrett Camp couldn't get a cab. That's when the idea for Uber was born. How great would it be if you could "push a button and get a ride?" Fast forward to today where Uber is the largest m
It’s a sellers’ market(place)
Today, the most innovative changes in marketplaces are about providing more value to sellers. Many of them hinge on the kind of financial infrastructure Stripe provides.
How we built a custom permissions DSL at Figma
When our permissions system broke at the seams, everything came to a halt. This is the story of how we fixed it.
GitHub Availability Report: February 2024
In February, we experienced two incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.
Building Meta’s GenAI Infrastructure
Marking a major investment in Meta’s AI future, we are announcing two 24k GPU clusters. We are sharing details on the hardware, network, storage, design, performance, and software that help us extract high throughput and reliability for various AI workloads. We use this cluster design for Llama 3 training. We are strongly committed to open […]
Event Calendars For Web Made Easy With These Commercial Options — Smashing Magazine
Collection of top-notch calendar components for seamless event scheduling. Whether you prefer ready-to-use setups or enjoy tweaking code for a tailored experience, these calendars have you covered.
Security Week 2024 wrap up
A summary of the blog posts and product announcements released during Security Week 2024
Stripe Apps more than doubles in size, offers new ways to discover apps
Through app collections and embeddable apps, Stripe is providing more ways to discover tools that help businesses work more effectively.
eBPF Documentary
Log Explorer: monitor security events without third-party storage
With the combined power of Security Analytics + Log Explorer, security teams can analyze, investigate, and monitor for security attacks natively within Cloudflare, reducing time to resolution and overall cost of ownership for customers by eliminating the need to forward logs to third-party SIEMs
