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Engineering — Framework-defined infrastructure

Framework-defined infrastructure

Framework defined infrastructure means programmatic framework understanding for automatic infrastructure provisioning—an evolution from Infrastructure as Code (IaC).

VVercel·March 7, 2023Engineering
Frontend — Common Beginner Mistakes with React

Common Beginner Mistakes with React

I used to teach React at a local coding bootcamp, and I noticed that students kept getting tripped up by the same handful of things. In this article, we're going to go through 9 of the most dastardly gotchas. I'll show you how to solve these common problems, so you can avoid a lot of potential frustration!

JWJosh W. Comeau·March 6, 2023Frontend
Design & UX — Inspiring Web Design And UX Showcases — Smashing Magazine

Inspiring Web Design And UX Showcases — Smashing Magazine

Do you sometimes feel that all websites look the same? In this post, we compiled web design showcases that prove differently. They highlight some of the finest web designs, well-crafted experiences, and delightful interactions from across the web. Inspiration is guaranteed.

CMCosima MielkeCosima Mielke·March 6, 2023Design & UX
Engineering — Release Radar

Release Radar

Our community—along with ourselves—took a much needed break over the festive season. Now everyone is back into the full swing of work, and the open source community is showing us…

MDMichelle DukeMichelle Duke·March 5, 2023Engineering
SRE & Ops — How Cloudflare runs Prometheus at scale

How Cloudflare runs Prometheus at scale

Here at Cloudflare we run over 900 instances of Prometheus with a total of around 4.9 billion time series. Operating such a large Prometheus deployment doesn’t come without challenges . In this blog post we’ll cover some of the issues we hit and how we solved them

LLukaszLukasz·March 3, 2023SRE & Ops
Security — GitHub Security Lab audited DataHub: Here’s what they found

GitHub Security Lab audited DataHub: Here’s what they found

The GitHub Security Lab audited DataHub, an open source metadata platform, and discovered several vulnerabilities in the platform’s authentication and authorization modules. These vulnerabilities could have enabled an attacker to bypass authentication and gain access to sensitive data stored on the platform.

AMAlvaro MunozAlvaro Munoz·March 3, 2023Security
Distributed — See you at SCaLE! 🐧

See you at SCaLE! 🐧

SCaLE is the largest community-run open-source and free software conference in North America. It takes place next week in Pasadena, CA from March 9-12, 2023 and we’ll be there!

LRLee ReillyLee Reilly·March 3, 2023Distributed
Languages — Why Python keeps growing, explained

Why Python keeps growing, explained

A deep dive into why more people are using Python than ever, its key use cases, and why it’s still so popular 30-plus years after it was first released.

RSRizel ScarlettRizel Scarlett·March 2, 2023Languages
Performance — GitHub Availability Report: February 2023

GitHub Availability Report: February 2023

In February, we experienced three incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services. This report also sheds light into a January incident that resulted in degraded performance for GitHub Packages and GitHub Pages and another January incident that impacted Git users.

JOJakub OleksyJakub Oleksy·March 1, 2023Performance
SRE & Ops — GitHub Actions Importer is now generally available

GitHub Actions Importer is now generally available

We’re excited to announce the general availability of GitHub Actions Importer. GitHub Actions Importer helps you plan, forecast, and automate migrations from Azure DevOps, CircleCI, GitLab, Jenkins, and Travis CI…

DGDawit GebregziabherDawit Gebregziabher·March 1, 2023SRE & Ops