How a Figma slide deck helped indie rock duo Tanlines launch a comeback
Musician Jesse Cohen explains how he harnessed the corporate lingua franca (and the Google Meet integration for Figma) to launch his band’s latest album.
Designing A Better Design Handoff File In Figma — Smashing Magazine
This article provides practical tips for improving the handoff process between design and development in product development. The guidance covers effective communication, documentation, design details, version control, and plugin usage.
Unbounded memory usage by TCP for receive buffers, and how we fixed it
We are constantly monitoring and optimizing the performance and resource utilization of our systems. Recently, we noticed that some of our TCP sessions were allocating more memory than expected. This blog post describes in detail the root cause of the problem and shows the test results of a solution
The 2023 Open Source Program Office (OSPO) Survey is live!
Help quantify the state of enterprise open source by taking the 2023 OSPO survey.
Rooting with root cause: finding a variant of a Project Zero bug
In this blog, I’ll look at CVE-2022-46395, a variant of CVE-2022-36449 (Project Zero issue 2327), and use it to gain arbitrary kernel code execution and root privileges from the untrusted app domain on an Android phone that uses the Arm Mali GPU. I’ll also explain how root cause analysis of CVE-2022-36449 led to the discovery of CVE-2022-46395.
New playground: memory spy
New playground: memory spy
Meet Success At Scale, A New Smashing Book By Addy Osmani — Smashing Magazine
Meet “Success At Scale”, our upcoming book with best-practice case studies from industry experts. Print shipping in early March 2024. eBook now available. Pre-order the book.
The Impact Of Agile Methodologies On Code Quality — Smashing Magazine
Say goodbye to traditional workflows and embrace Agile to unlock the power of high-quality code. Discover how Agile methodologies promote simplicity, modularization, readability, and continuous improvement, resulting in faster turnaround times, more responsive development processes, and ultimately, the creation of high-quality software that meets customer needs.
How to automate a Microsoft Power Platform deployment using GitHub Actions
Low-code enables developers and non-developers to build custom applications and solutions with less effort. In this blog, we show you how to automate your low-code deployments using GitHub Actions.
Kelsey Hightower on leadership in open source and the future of Kubernetes
In this special episode of The ReadME Podcast, dedicated to GitHub’s Maintainer Month, Kelsey Hightower joins hosts Martin Woodward and Neha Batra to discuss his philosophy on fostering thriving open source communities and the importance of empathy to a maintainer’s success.
Dependency Composition
Based on frustrations with conventional framework-based dependency injection, I have adopted a composition strategy that utilizes partial application to inject context into modules. When combined with test-driven development as the design process and a focus on functions over classes, modules can be kept clear, clean, and mostly free of unintended coupling.
Announcing the public preview of GitHub Advanced Security for Azure DevOps
GitHub Advanced Security for Azure DevOps is now available for public preview, making GitHub’s same application security testing tools natively available on Azure Repos.
Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime — Part 2
Picture yourself enthralled by the latest episode of your beloved Netflix series, delighting in an uninterrupted, high-definition streaming experience. Behind these perfect moments of entertainment…
Smashing Podcast Episode 61 With Rachel Andrew: What Is Web Platform Baseline? — Smashing Magazine
In this episode of the Smashing Podcast, we’re talking about Web Platform Baseline. What is it, and how can it help determine your browser support policy? Drew McLellan talks to expert Rachel Andrew to find out.
Recapping Developer Week
Developer Week 2023 is officially a wrap. Let’s take a look at everything we shipped last week
Launching our new Open Source Software Sponsorships Program
Launching our new Open Source Software Sponsorships Program and broadening the eligibility criteria to support more projects.
Announcing Cohort #2 of the Workers Launchpad
Announcing the second cohort of the Workers Launchpad - we can't wait to work with them and showcase these incredible companies building on Cloudflare's Developer Platform!
Bombyx is being licensed for product development
When we first conceived of our aerial fiber deployment solution, Bombyx (the Latin name for a silk moth), we imagined a robot weaving strands of fiber-optic cables over powerlines, helping human workers quickly connect communities even in very rural or remote locations. Now, after years of successful research, Bombyx is taking the next steps in […]
Practical Design Tips And Guidelines For Beginner Designers — Smashing Magazine
It’s easy for beginner designers to get overwhelmed and lose confidence when creating presentations, landing pages, app and web design mockups, and even cards. Laurent Baumann shares a few simple guidelines and practical tips to help you in such situations.
D1: We turned it up to 11
We've been heads down iterating on D1, and we've just shipped a major new version that's substantially faster, more reliable, and introduces Time Travel: the ability to restore a D1 database to any point in time.
Cloudflare Queues: messages at your speed with consumer concurrency and explicit acknowledgement
Queues is faster than ever before! Now queues will automatically scale up your consumers, clearing out backlogs in a flash. Explicit Acknowledgement allows developers to acknowledge or retry individual messages in a batch, preventing work from being repeated.
Workers Browser Rendering API enters open beta
The Workers Browser Rendering API allows developers to programmatically control and interact with a headless browser instance and create automation flows for their applications and products. Today we enter the open beta and start onboarding our customers.
Developer Week Performance Update: Spotlight on R2
For Developer Week 2023, we’re going to be looking at one of the newest Cloudflare developer offerings and how it compares to an alternative when retrieving assets from buckets: R2 versus Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3).
Improving customer experience in China using China Express
We use China Express to accelerate for performance and Workers to fall back to user through China Express for cost-effectiveness.
