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Notifications are a key aspect of the Slack user experience. Users rely on timely notifications of mentions and DMs to keep on top of important information. Poor notification completeness erodes the trust of all Slack users. Notifications flow through almost all the systems in our infrastructure. As illustrated in Figure 1 below, a notification request…
This blog post outlines the root cause analysis and solution for a bug found in Cloudflare’s mTLS implementation
Deployment rollbacks provide users the ability to quickly visualize and deploy past versions of their Workers, providing even more confidence in the deployment pipeline
A high-quality audit log is an essential tool for enterprises to ensure compliance, maintain security, investigate issues, and promote accountability.
We are building a private space for maintainers to connect with peers, preview features, and learn from each other!
This article highlights non-technical skills like curiosity, observation, empathy, advocacy, visual communication, and collaboration that designers routinely use in their process to make a difference through design. AI can be used to augment designers’ workflow instead of replacing people.
This is part 1 in our series on Fleet Management at Spotify and how we manage our software at scale. See also and .
TL;DR Since 2017, Spotify has been working to create a better listening experience for our users by creating algorithmically personalized playlists powered by the expertise of our curators. The outcome of these efforts has resulted in the technology we call “Algotorial.”
As of March 8, 2023, Spotify has started serving short previews for music, podcasts, and audiobooks on the home feed. (You can see the announcement at Stream On , starting at 19:15.) This is a huge lift for in-app content discovery — a move away from making listening decisions based on static content, such as cover art, to using the audio content itself as a teaser. It has been an effort across ma
Engineers at Cloudflare have improved the release procedure of our largest edge proxy server. The improved process allows us to significantly decrease the amount of memory used during the version upgrade. As a result, we can deploy code faster and more reliably
Learn more about static analysis and how to use it for security research! In this blog post series, we will take a closer look at static analysis concepts, present GitHub’s static analysis tool CodeQL, and teach you how to leverage static analysis for security research by writing custom CodeQL queries.
Building a custom site for zine feedback
A look at Shopify’s experience improving state management in the Shopify POS app by migrating from a Vanilla Redux codebase to Redux Toolkit one.
With April just around the corner, we have a new collection of desktop and mobile wallpapers waiting for you to celebrate the beginning of the new month. Designed by creatives from all across the globe, the wallpapers come in versions with and without a calendar. Enjoy!
Helping protect personal information in the cloud, all across the world
We have recently introduced Oxy, our Rust-based framework for proxies powering many Cloudflare services and products. Today, we will explain why and how it spans various layers of the OSI model, by handling directly raw IP packets, TCP connections and UDP payloads
These changes will improve the experience for custom query authors and enable better precision in some of our standard queries. Learn how to enable them for your custom queries.
Workshops are all about people: they involve people, are conducted by people, and aim to close the gaps in people’s communication. Slava Shestopalov shares a checklist with everything you need to keep in mind when running a workshop.
Historical guide for replacing Google Optimize with Vercel Edge Config and request-time routing, with current guidance for Routing Middleware and Vercel Functions.
Over the past 24 hours, Cloudflare has observed HTTP DDoS attacks targeting university websites in Australia. Universities were the first of several groups publicly targeted by the pro-Russian hacker group Killnet and their affiliate AnonymousSudan, as revealed in a recent Telegram post
A staff developer is an individual contributor who can have the same scope of impact and seniority as an engineering manager.
Dealing with sensitive data is an important topic for any app. In this article, you will find out how to handle sensitive or confidential information in your apps and what Row-Level Security means.
