For Good First Issue: Introducing a new way to contribute
For Good First Issue is a curated list of open source projects that are also digital public goods and need the help of developers.
An Interactive Guide to CSS Grid
CSS Grid is an incredibly powerful tool for building layouts on the web, but like all powerful tools, there's a significant learning curve. In this tutorial, we'll build a mental model for how CSS Grid works and how we can use it effectively. I'll share the biggest 💡 lightbulb moments I've had in my own learning journey.
Writing and linting Python at scale
Python plays a big part at Meta. It powers Instagram’s backend and plays an important role in our configuration systems, as well as much of our AI work. Meta even made contributions to Python 3.12, the latest version of Python. On this episode of the Meta Tech Podcast, Meta engineer Pascal Hartig (@passy) is joined by Amethyst […]
Creating And Maintaining A Voice Of Customer Program — Smashing Magazine
Product teams benefit from knowing their users’ needs and how they respond to product updates as they build out the roadmap of a product. This article covers Voice of Customer programs and is aimed at those who work on a product team as well as executives who are looking for how to better inform your products using insight from users.
The foundations of the Frontend Cloud
An introduction to the underlying infrastructure of the Frontend Cloud: Part 1 of the developer's guide to a future-proofed stack for the modern frontend.
2024, the year of elections
We want to ensure that all groups working to promote democracy around the world have the tools they need to stay secure online
PostgreSQL on s390x
I am happy to announce PostgreSQL family is growing again, with the addition of IBM’s z-series architecture, called “s390x” in Debian terms.
Highlights from Git 2.43
The last Git release of 2023 is here! Take a look at some of our highlights on what’s new in Git 2.43.
Incremental Processing using Netflix Maestro and Apache Iceberg
Incremental processing is an approach to process new or changed data in workflows. The key advantage is that it only incrementally processes data that are newly added or updated to a dataset, instead…
How to execute an object file: part 4, AArch64 edition
The initial posts are dedicated to the x86 architecture. Since then, the fleet of our working machines has expanded to include a large and growing number of ARM CPUs. This time we’ll repeat this exercise for the aarch64 architecture.
My rants about TP-Link Omada networking products
An Efficient Design-to-Code Handoff Process Using Uno Platform For Figma — Smashing Magazine
Effective collaboration between designers and developers is vital to creating good user experiences. However, bridging the handoff between design and development with the many tools and workflows available today has its pitfalls. Matthew Mattei introduces you to the Uno Platform, which offers a robust set of productivity boosters.
Introducing advanced session audit capabilities in Cloudflare One
Administrators can now easily audit all active user sessions and associated data used by their Cloudflare One policies. This enables the best of both worlds: extremely granular controls, while maintaining an improved ability to troubleshoot and diagnose
Security best practices for authors of GitHub Actions
Improve your GitHub Action’s security posture by securing your source repository, protecting your maintainers, and making it easy to report security incidents.
How to scale a large codebase
Transition from monolithic to monorepo architectures with Vercel. Explore feature flags for safe releases, incremental builds for quick iterations, and skew protection for version consistency to ease codebase management and speed up development.
Introducing hostname and ASN lists to simplify WAF rule creation
Today we are expanding Custom Lists by enabling you to create lists of hostnames and ASNs
Universe’s key takeaway: Innovate better with AI-powered workflows on a single, unified platform
Discover new AI-powered features and tools to help developers stay in the flow and organizations innovate at scale.
Watch: Meta’s engineers on building network infrastructure for AI
Meta is building for the future of AI at every level – from hardware like MTIA v1, Meta’s first-generation AI inference accelerator to publicly released models like Llama 2, Meta’s next-generation large language model, as well as new generative AI (GenAI) tools like Code Llama. Delivering next-generation AI products and services at Meta’s scale also […]
Streamlining Membership Data Engineering at Netflix with Psyberg | by Netflix Technology Blog | Nov, 2023 | Netflix TechBlog
At Netflix, our Membership and Finance Data Engineering team harnesses diverse data related to plans, pricing, membership life cycle, and revenue to fuel analytics, power various dashboards, and make…
Diving Deeper into Psyberg: Stateless vs Stateful Data Processing
In the inaugural blog post of this series, we introduced you to the state of our pipelines before Psyberg and the challenges with incremental processing that led us to create the Psyberg framework…
The Query Strikes Again
On Thursday, 12 Oct. 2022, the EMEA part of the Datastores team — the team responsible for Slack’s database clusters — was having an onsite day in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. We’re sitting together for the first time after new engineers had joined the team, when suddenly a few of us were paged: There was an…
CSS Responsive Multi-Line Ribbon Shapes (Part 1) — Smashing Magazine
Ribbons have been used to accent designs for many years now. But, the way we approach them in CSS has evolved with the introduction of newer features. In this article, Temani Afif combines background and gradient tricks to create ribbon shapes in CSS that are not only responsive but support multi-line text and are easily adjustable with a few CSS variables.
Streaming and longer context lengths for LLMs on Workers AI
Workers AI now supports streaming text responses for the LLM models in our catalog, including Llama-2, using server-sent events
Are designers happy? Our new “State of the Designer” report aims to find out
Explore Figma’s report on job satisfaction among designers in the era of remote work, revealing increased happiness and new challenges.