Calling all open source maintainers
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Beyond Algorithms: Skills Of Designers That AI Can’t Replicate — Smashing Magazine
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.
Fleet Management at Spotify (Part 1): Spotify’s Shift to a Fleet-First Mindset
This is part 1 in our series on Fleet Management at Spotify and how we manage our software at scale. See also and .
Humans + Machines: A Look Behind the Playlists Powered by Spotify’s Algotorial Technology
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.”
Large-Scale Generation of ML Podcast Previews at Spotify with Google Dataflow
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
Upgrading one of the oldest components in Cloudflare’s software stack
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
CodeQL zero to hero part 1: The fundamentals of static analysis for vulnerability research
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
Building a custom site for zine feedback
Administrivia: HTML generation and my general clowniness
How Migrating from Vanilla Redux to Redux Toolkit Improved State Management in Shopify POS - Shopify
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.
Swing Into April (2023 Wallpapers Edition) — Smashing Magazine
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!
Managing major traffic spikes during ticket drops with Vercel
Helping protect personal information in the cloud, all across the world
Helping protect personal information in the cloud, all across the world
From IP packets to HTTP: the many faces of our Oxy framework
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
Improvements to CodeQL’s data flow library for C++
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.
A Comprehensive Checklist For Running Design Workshops — Smashing Magazine
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.
Replacing Google Optimize with the Vercel Edge Network
Historical guide for replacing Google Optimize with Vercel Edge Config and request-time routing, with current guidance for Routing Middleware and Vercel Functions.
Killnet and AnonymousSudan DDoS attack Australian university websites, and threaten more attacks — here’s what to do about it
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
What Being a Staff Developer Means at Shopify - Shopify
A staff developer is an individual contributor who can have the same scope of impact and seniority as an engineering manager.
Fine-Grained Access Handling And Data Management With Row-Level Security — Smashing Magazine
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.
Cloudflare’s commitment to the 2023 Summit for Democracy
Cloudflare is proud to participate in and contribute commitments to the 2023 Summit Summit for Democracy because we believe that everyone should have access to an Internet that is faster,
Little Big Outtakes
The quick pivots and aha moments we made on the way to launching 30+ Little Big Updates
Introducing self-service SBOMs
Developers and compliance teams get a new SBOM generation tool for cloud repositories.
GitHub Galaxy 2023: Empower developer teams with a new developer experience
Learn how GitHub’s one, integrated platform–powered by AI and secure at every step—helps developer teams be more productive, collaborative, and efficient.
