Behind "Hello World" on Linux
Behind "Hello World" on Linux
How We Optimized Performance To Serve A Global Audience — Smashing Magazine
Liran Cohen and the team at Bookaway, a travel booking service, dramatically improved their site’s performance by auditing Core Web Vitals. In this article, Liran shares his team’s process for auditing and monitoring Web Vitals and the effort it took to dramatically improve Bookaway’s performance — and the benefits that came with it.
Hardening Workers KV
A deep dive into the recent incidents relating to Workers KV, and how we’re going to fix them
Cloudflare Workers database integration with Upstash
Announcing the new Upstash database integrations for Workers. Now it is easier to use Upstash Redis, Kafka and QStash inside your Worker
Best practices for organizations and teams using GitHub Enterprise Cloud
Learn how you can structure your enterprise to get the most value out of GitHub and provide the best experience for your developers!
How we build containerized services at GitHub using GitHub
Learn about how we build containerized services that power microservices on the GitHub.com platform and many internal tools.
Bulk load performance in PostgreSQL
Compare the performance of bulk load methods in PostgreSQL. Get recommendations for parameter settings to improve performance even more.
Running up that hill: Creativity, AI, and the human pursuit of uphill thinking
John Maeda shares takeaways from this year’s Design In Tech Report, and why we should embrace uphill thinking in a world optimized for shortcuts.
Sidekick’s Improved Streaming Experience - Shopify
In this post, learn how Shopify's Sidekick solves markdown rendering jank and response delay in LLM chatbots with buffering parser and async content resolution.
Smashing Podcast Episode 64 With Alvin Bryan: What Is A Headless CMS? — Smashing Magazine
We’re talking about headless content management systems. What are they, and how do they differ from more traditional systems? Drew McLellan talks to Alvin Bryan to find out.
CSS And Accessibility: Inclusion Through User Choice — Smashing Magazine
In this article, Carie Fisher outlines which CSS media features are available for detecting user preferences and how they are used to design and build more inclusive user experiences.
Coming Soon: Confidence — An Experimentation Platform from Spotify
TL;DR: Spotify is releasing a new commercial product for software development teams: a version of our homegrown experimentation platform that we’re calling . Based on everything we’ve learned over the last 10+ years about what it takes to enable experimentation at scale, the platform makes it easy for teams to set up, run, coordinate, and analyze their own user tests — from simple A/B testing to t
Experimentation at Spotify: Three Lessons for Maximizing Impact in Innovation
As companies mature, it’s easy to believe that the core experience and most user needs have been resolved, and all that’s left to work toward are the marginal benefits, the cherries on top. Cherries on top might add delight and panache, but they rarely cause fundamental shifts in performance and success. And as a business, even a mature one, we’re looking for the innovations that tangibly impact t
Encouragement Designs and Instrumental Variables for A/B Testing
At Spotify, . Most of these tests follow a standard design, where we assign users randomly to control and treatment groups, and then observe the difference in outcomes between these two groups. Usually, the control group, also known as the “holdout” group, retains the current experience, while the treatment group experiences a difference: a new feature, a change to an algorithm, or a redesigned us
Understanding React Server Components
React Server Components are changing the fundamental paradigms of React. Learn how Next.js handles the complexities and improves the performance of your applications.
Living In The Moment (August 2023 Wallpapers Edition) — Smashing Magazine
New month, new wallpapers! In this post, you’ll find unique and inspiring wallpapers for August 2023. Created with love by the community for the community, they come in versions with and without a calendar. Enjoy!
Cloudflare Radar's new BGP origin hijack detection system
BGP origin hijacks allow attackers to intercept, monitor, redirect, or drop traffic destined for the victim's networks. We explain how Cloudflare built its BGP hijack detection system, from its design and implementation to its integration on Cloudflare Radar
Smarter, more efficient coding: GitHub Copilot goes beyond Codex with improved AI model
We’re thrilled to announce two major updates to GitHub Copilot code Completion’s capabilities that will help developers work even more efficiently and effectively.
Closing vulnerabilities in Decidim, a Ruby-based citizen participation platform
This blog post describes two security vulnerabilities in Decidim, a digital platform for citizen participation. Both vulnerabilities were addressed by the Decidim team with corresponding update releases for the supported versions in May 2023.
Why is DNS still hard to learn?
Why is DNS still hard to learn?
How To Define An Array Of Colors With CSS — Smashing Magazine
Join Temani Afif on experiment with modern CSS features to create an array of colors. The goal is to define a comma-separated list of colors and iterate through them using an index.
Q2 2023 Internet disruption summary
In this post, we review selected Internet disruptions observed by Cloudflare during the second quarter of 2023, supported by traffic graphs from Cloudflare Radar and other internal Cloudflare tools, and grouped by associated cause or common geography
The future of design systems is semantic
In this piece, we dig into the decreasing gap between design and code, increasing semantics, and one of Figma’s newest features: variables.
Scaling merge-ort across GitHub
GitHub switched to performing merges and rebases using merge-ort. Come behind the scenes to see why and how we made this change.
