The shared language of props
Best practices for bridging the languages of design and development.
How platform teams get stuff done
Platform teams have a unique reliance on other teams to ensure adoption of their platform - getting code changes into other teams' codebase is critical to their success. There are a variety of patterns for that cross-team collaboration, and selecting the right ones depends on both the phase of platform adoption and the ability of both teams and codebases to accept external influence.
Exploring developer happiness, inclusion, and productivity at GitHub’s Design Conference
As a design organization, we have the opportunity to make a significant impact on designing the platform for all developers. How does the emergence of creative AI impact our work? How can we achieve an inclusive experience for a spectrum of all abilities? What does designing for developer happiness look like?
Metrics for issues, pull requests, and discussions
With the new Issue Metrics GitHub Action, you can now track and monitor important metrics related to issues, pull requests, and discussions, such as time to first response, time to close, and more!
How React 18 Improves Application Performance
Learn how React 18's concurrent features like Transitions, Suspense, and React Server Components improve application performance.
DDoS threat report for 2023 Q2
Q2 2023 saw an unprecedented escalation in DDoS attack sophistication. Pro-Russian hacktivists REvil, Killnet and Anonymous Sudan joined forces to attack Western sites. Mitel vulnerability exploits surged by a whopping 532%, and attacks on crypto rocketed up by 600%.
Reproducible builds: a PostgreSQL query optimization example
Learn how to rewrite a query to speed up performance - a practical example where Christoph speeds up a PostgreSQL query by a factor of 27,000
Decentralizing the Practice of Architecture at Xapo Bank
Xapo was founded as a Bitcoin service provider and developed into an online bank. During this transition it needed to reassess its software estate and establish an architecture capability to guide its future. It took on ideas from Domain-Driven Design, Team Topologies, and the Architecture Advice Process to develop an Architectural Advice Forum. This led to greater alignment of its software delive
Security alert: social engineering campaign targets technology industry employees
GitHub has identified a low-volume social engineering campaign that targets the personal accounts of employees of technology firms. No GitHub or npm systems were compromised in this campaign. We’re publishing this blog post as a warning for our customers to prevent exploitation by this threat actor.
Contributing support for a Wasm instruction to Winch - Shopify
Jeff Charles, a Senior Shopify Developer, shares key learnings from his successful pull request to Winch. The pull request aimed to add support for various WebAssembly instructions to Wasmtime's baseline (non-optimizing) compiler.
Designing Age-Inclusive Products: Guidelines And Best Practices — Smashing Magazine
With an estimated one in every eight individuals worldwide surpassing the age of 60, who are actively adopting online shopping, the need for user-friendly interfaces tailored to their needs becomes apparent. Explore the guidelines to help you design inclusive products for all, particularly for an older audience and your future self.
A developer’s guide to prompt engineering and LLMs
Prompt engineering is the art of communicating with a generative AI model. In this article, we’ll cover how we approach prompt engineering at GitHub, and how you can use it to build your own LLM-based application.
Bringing HDR video to Reels
Meta has made it possible for people to upload high dynamic range (HDR) videos from their phone’s camera roll to Reels on Facebook and Instagram. To show standard dynamic range (SDR) UI elements and overlays legibly on top of HDR video, we render them at a brightness level comparable to the video itself. We solved […]
Gossip Protocol Explained - High Scalability -
You can subscribe to the system design newsletter to excel in system design interviews and software architecture. The original article was published on systemdesign.one website. What Is Gossip Protocol? The typical problems in a distributed system are the following [1], [11]: * maintaining the system state (liveness of nodes) * communication between nodes The potential solutions to these problems
Lessons Learned Running Presto at Meta Scale - High Scalability -
Presto is a free, open source SQL query engine. We’ve been using it at Meta for the past ten years, and learned a lot while doing so. Running anything at scale - tools, processes, services - takes problem solving to overcome unexpected challenges. Here are four things we learned while scaling up Presto to Meta scale, and some advice if you’re interested in running your own queries at scale. Scalin
Quickly see differences between Zone Versions with Version Comparisons
Quickly compare changes between two Zone Versions with Version Comparisons available now
Writing CSS In 2023: Is It Any Different Than A Few Years Ago? — Smashing Magazine
CSS is evolving faster than ever. With all of the new features that are now available — and forthcoming — since we got Flexbox and Grid years ago, the way we write CSS is evolving, too. In this article, Geoff Graham shares which features have had the most influence on his current approaches to CSS, as well as those that have not (at least yet).
DLP Exact Data Match beta now available
Cloudflare One now supports exact data match for Data Loss Prevention
Paula Scher’s 10 rules for play
We invited the Pentagram partner to share her “10 rules for play” noted down over a formidable and long-lasting career.
Release Radar
It’s been a while since we’ve published our Release Radar. You can blame IRL conferences coming back, getting influenza, and being struck down by the weather. But those are just…
(De)coding conventions
Navigating the ebb and flow of programming paradigms–from the shifts in the JavaScript ecosystem and TypeScript’s rise, to AI’s role in advancing accessibility, and strategies for encouraging non-code contributions–tune in to the latest episode of The ReadME Podcast for more.
Moving from a product to a service mindset
Thanks to DevOps, cloud computing and other industry trends, many organizations are shifting from a product mindset to a service mindset. Here’s how you can implement a service-led strategy.
Iterating from design to deploy: Guillermo Rauch's talk at Figma Config 2023
A reflection on Guillermo Roach's Config 2023 talk, "The shape of future builders: from design to deploy."
How the Cloudflare global network optimizes for system reboots during low-traffic periods
We run a wide fleet of machines on the Cloudflare global network. This post describes how we minimize customer disruption during large-scale machine reboots using math!
