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Learn more about how we use GitHub to build GitHub, how we turned our guiding communications principles into prescriptive practices to manage our internal communications signal-to-noise ratio, and how you can contribute to the ongoing conversation.
Secret scanning now performs validity checks for select AWS, Microsoft, Google, and Slack tokens.
We’re announcing the general availability of the Magic WAN Connector, which serves as the glue between your existing network hardware and Cloudflare’s networ
GitHub Sponsors has partnered with Patreon. We’re also expanding to new regions.
How to get the security basics right at your organization.
Geoff explores the often-overlooked divide between WordPress.org and WordPress.com, shedding light on the blurred lines between open-source ideals and commercial interests.
We’re adding new features to our revenue and finance automation suite that make it easier for businesses to grow revenue and streamline operations.
Need a recap or refresher on all the big Birthday Week news this week? This recap has you covered
For this year’s Cybersecurity Awareness Month, the GitHub bug bounty team is excited to feature another spotlight on a talented security researcher who participates in the GitHub Security Bug Bounty Program—@inspector-ambitious!
Speed up your GitHub Actions jobs on macOS with all new, faster Apple silicon powered M1 macOS larger runner for arm64.
In this second article of a two-part series, Adrian shares insights about building WaterBear — his first project as a lead developer — discussing the challenges his team encountered while building it and various accessibility and performance improvements they’ve made. You’ll get a peek at the inner workings of a team striving to find its groove to systematize the work.
Explore the SameSite cookie attribute's significance in ensuring web security and user privacy to strike the right balance between security and usability.
How does Spotify manage a sprawling tech ecosystem made up of 500+ squads managing over 10,000 software components in production? Last November, Google Cloud distinguished engineer Kelsey Hightower met with Spotify chief architect Niklas Gustavsson at Spotify’s office in Gothenburg, Sweden, to talk about just that.
At Spotify, we have experimented with the build system since 2017. Over the years, the project has matured, and support for more languages and ecosystems have been added, thanks to the open source community and its maintainers at Google. In 2020, it became clear that the future of our client development required a unified build system that would scale well with our polyglot, multiplatform, and mul
For the past decade, Spotify has used approximate nearest-neighbor search technology to power our personalization, recommendation, and search systems.
TL;DR It’s back! Last year, we created the to help support the free and open source software projects we use at Spotify. We’re excited to announce that the fund has returned for 2023, and the recipients have been selected. This year, the fund’s 100,000 EUR are going to the following four projects: AssertJ, Jdbi, Testcontainers, and Xiph.
Are you a parent forced to put the Bluey theme song on repeat? Do you work from home and play lofi beats or ambient piano music? Do you fall asleep to peaceful ambient noises?
How about a little inspiration boost? Well, we might have something for you: desktop wallpapers created with love by artists and designers from across the globe. They are available in versions with and without a calendar for October and can be downloaded for free. Enjoy!
We are now announcing the ability for Cloudflare customers to scan old messages within their Office 365 Inboxes for threats. This Retro Scan will let you look back seven days and see what threats your current email security tool has missed
We're excited to announce a contribution to improving privacy for everyone on the Internet. Encrypted Client Hello, a new standard that prevents networks from snooping on which websites a user is visiting, is now available on all Cloudflare plans.
Now that we’ve eliminated CAPTCHAs at Cloudflare, we want to hasten the demise of CAPTCHAs across the internet. We’re thrilled to announce that Turnstile is generally available, and Turnstile’s ‘Managed’ mode is now completely free to everyone for unlimited use.
Starting today, you can secure the connection between Cloudflare and your origin server with post-quantum cryptography
In this post we are going to share the most recent updates since our last post in June, and tell you about our tools and processes that we use to monitor and improve our network performance
