Engineering Insights & Guides

Build a fast, animated image gallery with Next.js

Learn how to build a performant image gallery using the Next.js image component and Cloudinary that can handle hundreds of large images and deliver great UX.

VVercel·January 9, 2023Performance

Welcome to CIO Week 2023

This CIO Week we’ll demonstrate how Cloudflare is helping CIOs keep data, devices and employees both safe and fast across hybrid and remote environments. We’ll show how Cloudflare accelerates digital transformation and modernizes networking and security towards a Zero Trust model

Corey Mahan, Juan·January 8, 2023Security

S p a m m y s y s c a l l s in strace dumps

RKRachel Kroll·January 5, 2023Systems

Reliving Your Happiest HTTP Interactions with Ruby’s VCR Gem - Shopify

VCR is a Ruby library that records HTTP interactions and plays them back to your test suite, verifying input and returning predictable output. Here’s how and when Prater (Staff Engineer) recommends you use it.

SEShopify Engineering·January 5, 2023Networking

A Guide To Getting Data Visualization Right — Smashing Magazine

In this article, Sara Dholakia presents a guide on how to choose just the right type of data visualization, with guidelines and things to keep in mind.

Sara Dholakia·January 5, 2023Engineering

How Cloudflare can help stop malware before it reaches your app

Today, we’re making the job of application security teams easier, by providing a content scanning engine integrated with our Web Application Firewall (WAF), so that malicious files being uploaded by end users, never reach origin servers in the first place

Michael Tremante·January 4, 2023Security

GitHub Availability Report: December 2022

In December, we did not experience any incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services. This report sheds light into an incident that impacted customers using GitHub Packages and GitHub Pages in November.

Jakub Oleksy·January 4, 2023Performance

Another look at the steps for issuing a cert

RKRachel Kroll·January 4, 2023Engineering

Why I still have an old-school cert on my https site

RKRachel Kroll·January 3, 2023Engineering

Monte Carlo Simulations: Separating Signal from Noise in Sampled Success Metrics - Shopify

Check out this guide for using a Monte Carlo simulation to identify the size and confidence percentage of your sampled success metric.

SEShopify Engineering·January 3, 2023Engineering

Not quite a successful prediction about tracking Apple stuff

RKRachel Kroll·January 2, 2023Engineering

The State Of Usability In 2023 🎊 — Smashing Magazine

That’s how people behave on the web in 2023. Some observations from real usability testing on what people do and what they don’t do on the web. From disabled copy-paste to magic link sign-in.