How to remove roadblocks to create better developer workflow and experience
The way your team builds software matters: Create a developer experience that promotes iteration
Vercel achieves ISO 27001:2013 certification to further strengthen commitment to security
Vercel achieves the ISO 27001 certification validating that our information security practices adhere to globally accepted standards.
Citus: Sharding your first table
Here’s how to shard a table from scratch with Citus. Scale PostgreSQL DBs using a sharding approach. How to run a Citus Docker container.
Building a ShopifyQL Code Editor - Shopify
In October 2022, Shopify released ShopifyQL Notebooks, a first-party app that lets merchants analyze their shop data to make better decisions. It puts the power of ShopifyQL into merchants’ hands with a guided code editing experience. In order to provide a first-class editing experience, we turned to CodeMirror, a code editor framework built for the web. Out of the box, CodeMirror didn’t have supp
Gradients, Blend Modes, And A Really Cool Hover Effect — Smashing Magazine
Gradients are a powerful CSS feature. We use them for texture, depth, and even to hide parts of elements with CSS masking. This article covers another interesting way to use gradients — as a hover effect that affects the appearance of other elements around the hovered element.
How the at-home workout sensation, Hydrow, cut authoring times from weeks to minutes
Elevate load balancing with Private IPs and Cloudflare Tunnels: a secure path to efficient traffic distribution
We are extremely excited to announce a new addition to our Load Balancing solution, Private Network Load Balancing with deep integrations with Zero Trust!
Rediscovering The Joy Of Design — Smashing Magazine
Pratik Joglekar takes a philosophical approach to remind designers about the lost joy within themselves by effectively placing massive importance on mindfulness, introspection, and forward-looking. Without joy, the work we do would feel meaningless. To prevent it from happening, check out a few ideas that would help rediscover that spark of joy.
Using Zig in our incremental Turborepo migration from Go to Rust
In this Turborepo migration update, we explore the innovative strategies, such as the "Go Sandwich" approach and leveraging Zig's cross-compilation, guiding our gradual shift from Go to Rust, aiming to boost performance without sacrificing stability.
What’s next for Cloudflare One’s data protection suite
Cloudflare One just launched its data protection suite. This blog previews new functionality to protect data and code in SaaS environments with our DLP and CASB services and looks back on what we have built over the past year
Cloudflare One for Data Protection
This blog announces Cloudflare One for Data Protection — our unified suite to protect data everywhere across web, SaaS, and private applications. Built on and delivered across our entire global network, Cloudflare One’s data protection suite is architected for the risks of modern coding and AI
Using Chakra execution traces for benchmarking and network performance optimization
Meta presents Chakra execution traces, an open graph-based representation of AI/ML workload execution, laying the foundation for benchmarking and network performance optimization. Chakra execution traces represent key operations, such as compute, memory, and communication, data and control dependencies, timing, and resource constraints. In collaboration with MLCommons, we are seeking industry-wide
Arcadia: An end-to-end AI system performance simulator
We’re introducing Arcadia, Meta’s unified system that simulates the compute, memory, and network performance of AI training clusters. Extracting maximum performance from an AI cluster and increasing overall efficiency warrants a multi-input system that accounts for various hardware and software parameters across compute, storage, and network collectively. Arcadia gives Meta’s researchers and engin
Threads: The inside story of Meta’s newest social app
Earlier this year, a small team of engineers at Meta started working on an idea for a new app. It would have all the features people expect from a text-based conversations app, but with one very key, distinctive goal – being an app that would allow people to share their content across multiple platforms. We […]
How to build an enterprise LLM application: Lessons from GitHub Copilot
The team behind GitHub Copilot shares its lessons for building an LLM app that delivers value to both individuals and enterprise users at scale.
Making Sense of React Server Components
This year, the React team unveiled something they've been quietly researching for years: an official way to run React components exclusively on the server. This is a significant paradigm shift, and it's caused a whole lot of confusion in the React community. In this tutorial, we'll explore this new world, and build an intuition for how it works, and how we can take advantage of it.
My Summer Return Internship @ Slack: A Guide on Building on Past Experiences
Embarking on a journey Stepping out of SFO with the familiarity of the fogginess of the city, my story at Slack unfolds once again. As a return intern, I found myself prepped for another exciting summer, and this opportunity encompassed a renewed sense of anticipation — a mix between known pathways and new adventures. Returning…
Long Live The Test Pyramid — Smashing Magazine
Is the Test Pyramid really dead? Discover the more contemporary testing strategies and evaluate the Test Pyramid’s relevance in today’s software development practices.
The creator economy goes global
Stripe data shows that the creator economy has evolved but is still thriving. We’ve seen this evolution up close, as many of the largest creator platforms use Stripe Connect to onboard creators and pay out funds around the world.
What is it like to write code at Meta?
Ever wonder what it’s like to write code at Meta’s scale? On the latest episode of the Meta Tech Podcast, Meta engineer Pascal Hartig (@passy) sits down with Dustin Shahidehpour and Katherine Zak, two software engineers at Meta, to talk about their careers and what it’s really like to ship code at Meta. Why does Meta have […]
Connection coalescing with ORIGIN Frames: fewer DNS queries, fewer connections
In this blog we’re going to take a closer look at “connection coalescing”, with specific focus on manage it at a large scale
Generating Real-Time Audio Sentiment Analysis With AI — Smashing Magazine
In this article, Joas Pambou builds the tool to provide a sentiment score in **real-time** with enhanced user experience by providing multilingual support. You will use an OpenAI library called Whisper that transcribes audio files into text and detects the language, and Gradio, a UI framework, to establish the interface.
Improving Worker Tail scalability
We’re excited to announce improvements to Workers Tail that means it can now be enabled for Workers at any size and scale
Getting started with edge computing
Edge computing practitioners answer your questions about when and why to build applications at the edge.
