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Networking — Examining HTTP/3 usage one year on

Examining HTTP/3 usage one year on

With the HTTP/3 RFC celebrating its 1st birthday, we examined HTTP version usage trends between May 2022 - May 2023. We found that HTTP/3 usage by browsers continued to grow, but that search engine and social media bots continued to effectively ignore the latest version of the web’s core protocol

DBDavid Belson, LucasDavid Belson, Lucas·June 6, 2023Networking
Frontend — Animated Pride Flags

Animated Pride Flags

Happy Pride month! In this tutorial, I'll share a handful of my favourite animation tricks. You'll learn how to build an animated wavy pride flag using CSS keyframes and linear gradients. We'll also see how to make it dynamic using React. 🏳️‍🌈

JWJosh W. Comeau·June 6, 2023Frontend
Performance — Reduce latency and increase cache hits with Regional Tiered Cache

Reduce latency and increase cache hits with Regional Tiered Cache

Regional Tiered Cache provides an additional layer of caching for Enterprise customers who have a global traffic footprint and want to serve content faster by avoiding network latency when there is a cache miss in a lower-tier, resulting in an upper-tier fetch in a data center located far away

AAAlex, Andrew HauckAlex, Andrew Hauck·June 1, 2023Performance