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Security — Welcome to Security Week 2024

Welcome to Security Week 2024

Cloudflare’s Chief Security Officer introduces 2024 Security Week by sharing insights into the past year of threats, security incidents and key priorities and concerns for global CISOs

GGrantGrant·March 3, 2024Security
Engineering — Face cams: the missing guide

Face cams: the missing guide

I try to avoid doing “meta” / “behind the scenes” stuff, because I usually feel like it has to be “earned”. How many YouTube channels are channels about making YouTube videos? Too many. Regardless, because I’ve had the opportunity to make my own mistakes now for a few years (I started doing the video thing in earnest in 2019), and because I’ve recently made a few leaps in quality-of-life re: shoot

AWAmos WengerAmos Wenger·March 2, 2024Engineering
Frontend — Modern CSS Tooltips And Speech Bubbles (Part 1) — Smashing Magazine

Modern CSS Tooltips And Speech Bubbles (Part 1) — Smashing Magazine

Tooltips are a very common pattern used in CSS for years. There are a lot of ways to approach tooltips in CSS, though some evoke headaches with all the magic numbers they require. In this article, Temani Afif presents modern techniques to create tooltips with the smallest amount of markup and the greatest amount of flexibility.

TATemani AfifTemani Afif·March 1, 2024Frontend
Engineering — Risk-Aware Product Decisions in A/B Tests with Multiple Metrics

Risk-Aware Product Decisions in A/B Tests with Multiple Metrics

TL;DR We summarize the findings in our recent paper, , where we explain how Spotify’s decision-making engine works and how the results of multiple metrics in an A/B test are combined into a single product decision. Metrics can be of different types, and we consider success metrics (superiority tests), guardrail metrics (non-inferiority tests), deterioration metrics (inferiority tests), and quality

MSMårten Schultzberg , Sebastian Ankargren , an·March 1, 2024Engineering
Engineering — Zaraz launches new pricing

Zaraz launches new pricing

The new Cloudflare Zaraz pricing makes Zaraz the most affordable way to load third-party tools on your website, starting with 1 million free events per month and all features unlocked

YYoavYoav·February 29, 2024Engineering
Engineering — Game Bytes

Game Bytes

Game Bytes is our monthly series taking a peek at the world of gamedev on GitHub—featuring game engine updates, game jam details, open source games, mods, maps, and more. Game on! 🕹️

LRLee ReillyLee Reilly·February 29, 2024Engineering