Uptick in healthcare organizations experiencing targeted DDoS attacks
Over the past few days, Cloudflare, as well as other sources, have observed healthcare organizations targeted by a pro-Russian hacktivist group claiming to be Killnet.
Cloudflare's handling of a bug in interpreting IPv4-mapped IPv6 addresses
Recently, a vulnerability was reported to our bug bounty about a bug in the way some of our code interprets IPv4 addresses mapped into IPv6 addresses.
How the GitHub Docs team uses GitHub Projects
Explore how the GitHub Docs team uses GitHub Projects for content coordination, reviews, and publishing.
Enabling branch deployments through IssueOps with GitHub Actions
What if developers want to leverage branch deployments but don’t have a full ChatOps stack integrated with their repositories? We wanted to set out to find a way for all developers to be able to take advantage of branch deployments with ease, right from their GitHub repository, and so the branch-deploy Action was born!
The Hardest Part of Writing Tests is Getting Started - Shopify
The hardest part of writing tests is setting things up. Test suites have complicated helper tools, stubs, and fixtures. Learn 4 things you can do to get started.
UX Podcasts For Designers — Smashing Magazine
Podcasts are a fantastic opportunity to get up close with the people who know their craft. In this post, we compiled podcasts that are bound to provide valuable insights into UX and new perspectives on the field. Perfect for a short coffee break or a long commute.
Comparing React Form Libraries: SurveyJS, Formik, React Hook Form, React Final Form And Unform — Smashing Magazine
In handling forms in React, you can either set up a custom solution or reach out to one of the many form libraries available. In this article, we compare some React Libraries: SurveyJS, Formik, React Hook Form, React Final Form, and Unform.
How To Host A WordPress Site On Amazon Lightsail — Smashing Magazine
Lightsail provides all the power we need to host our websites, as we are used to from AWS, but making it way easier than ever before. In this article, Leonardo Losoviz explores how to launch a WordPress site in Lightsail in a quick and easy way.
Announcing the launch of the All In for Maintainers DEI Resource Hub
The DEI Resource Hub is a vetted collection of resources, tools, and best practices designed to help open source maintainers create and maintain inclusive and diverse open source communities.
Open source’s impact on the world’s 100 million developers
We’re taking a look at how open source software has evolved on GitHub, and how the role of a maintainer and contributor has changed alongside the massive growth in open source software.
GitHub Availability Report: January 2023
In January, we experienced two incidents, one that resulted in degraded performance for Packages and Pages and another that impacted Git users.
It’s a non-transitive R class world
After Duplo modularization, we noticed that the task producing a transitive R class was taking a significant amount of time to execute. To eliminate this task altogether, and since the non-transitive R class is advertised to have up to 40% incremental build time improvement, we decided to migrate our codebase to use it. If you’re not…
Understanding App Directory Architecture In Next.js — Smashing Magazine
The new App Directory architecture has been the main character of the recent Next.js release, which keeps bringing up many questions. In this article, Atila Fassina explores the advantages and pitfalls of this new strategy and reflects on whether you should use it in production now or not.
A Multi-Year Challenge: Repairing Deep Linking & Attribution at Spotify
Deep linking and attribution are important functionalities for a growing business. Deep links seamlessly get you to the content you want in the app. Attribution helps us understand which activity (such as marketing or sharing) drives you to that content. At Spotify in 2017, these critical functionalities were in disrepair. But over the course of five years, we’ve endured ups and downs and learned
Unleashing ML Innovation at Spotify with Ray
As the field of machine learning (ML) continues to evolve and its impact on society and various aspects of our lives grows, it is becoming increasingly important for practitioners and innovators to consider a broader range of perspectives when building ML models and applications. This desire is driving the need for a more flexible and scalable ML infrastructure.
Incident Report: Spotify Outage on January 14, 2023
On January 14, between 00:15 UTC and 03:45 UTC, Spotify suffered an outage. The impact was small at first and increased over the course of an hour until most functionality (including playback) was not working. Spotify engineers were first notified of the problem at 00:40 UTC, and our incident response team was immediately assembled. Due to the nature of the incident, triage took longer than one wo
Build a GPT-3 app with Next.js and Vercel Edge Functions
Historical tutorial for a GPT-3 Twitter bio generator. For new AI apps on Vercel, use Vercel Functions with Fluid compute and streaming.
Super serves thousands of domains from a single codebase with Next.js and Vercel
CVE-2022-47929: traffic control noqueue no problem?
In the Linux kernel before 6.1.6, a NULL pointer dereference bug in the traffic control subsystem allows an unprivileged user to trigger a denial of service (system crash) via a crafted traffic control configuration that is set up with "tc qdisc" and "tc class" commands.
Transaction ID wraparound: a walk on the wild side
Have you ever seen data corruption from transaction ID wraparound? Avoid PostgreSQL performance problems - read here what causes it.
The future of design systems is complicated
In this series, we talk to industry experts about how they’re managing the the future of design systems—from tooling to automation to accessibility.
Skilling for the future: How GitHub is advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion within open source communities
In the coming months, we’re scaling, expanding, and launching new programming to further DEI within open source communities.
Asynchronous computing at Meta: Overview and learnings
We’ve made architecture changes to Meta’s event driven asynchronous computing platform that have enabled easy integration with multiple event-sources. We’re sharing our learnings from handling various workloads and how to tackle trade offs made with certain design choices in building the platform. Asynchronous computing is a paradigm where the user does not expect a workload […]
The Magic Of February (2023 Wallpapers Edition) — Smashing Magazine
Do you need a little inspiration boost? Well, then our new batch of desktop wallpapers is for you. Designed by artists and designers from across the globe, they come in versions with and without a calendar for February 2023.