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Career & Teams — The Story of Scalar

The Story of Scalar

New to Git v2.38, Scalar is a built-in repository manager for large repos. Here, we’ll tell the story of how Scalar went from a rough VFS for Git successor to a fully-integrated Git tool, with all of the engineering lessons learned in the process.

DSDerrick Stolee, Victoria DyeDerrick Stolee, Victoria Dye·October 13, 2022Career & Teams
Security — Cloudflare DDoS threat report 2022 Q3

Cloudflare DDoS threat report 2022 Q3

In Q3, DDoS attacks increased by 111% YoY, Cloudflare auto-mitigated a 2.5 Tbps attack targeting a Minecraft server as multi-terabit scale DDoS attacks become increasingly frequent. Read more in our 2022 Q3 DDoS Report

OOmerOmer·October 12, 2022Security
Career & Teams — Mobile Developer Experience at Slack

Mobile Developer Experience at Slack

At Slack, the goal of the Mobile Developer Experience Team (DevXp) is to empower developers to ship code with confidence while enjoying a pleasant and productive engineering experience. We use metrics and surveys to measure productivity and developer experience, such as developer sentiment, CI stability, time to merge (TTM), and test failure rate. We have…

AEAhmed Eid·October 12, 2022Career & Teams
Career & Teams — A World-Class Code Playground with Sandpack

A World-Class Code Playground with Sandpack

No developer blog or technical documentation site is complete without an interactive code playground. The CodeSandbox team recently released a wonderful tool called Sandpack, to help us create these live-updating code editors. In this tutorial, I'll show you how I use it on this blog.

JWJosh W. Comeau·October 11, 2022Career & Teams