How We Enable Two-Day Delivery in the Shopify Fulfillment Network - Shopify
A simplified overview of how we built two-day delivery in the Shopify Fulfillment Network (SFN).
An Introduction To Context Propagation In JavaScript — Smashing Magazine
React popularized context-propagation within applications with the context API. Evyatar Alush brings a brief intro to context propagation in JavaScript and how you can build React Context yourself.
Aliases for sub-SELECTS in FROM clause
Aliases are mandatory for sub-SELECTS by SQL standard. Some vendors (Oracle) don't force that rule. Will PostgreSQL follow it in the future?
GitHub Discussions is now available on GitHub Enterprise Server
As part of GitHub Enterprise Server 3.6, enterprise customers will now be able to use GitHub Discussions.
GitHub Enterprise Server 3.6 is now generally available
GitHub Discussions and Audit Log Streaming, new automation features, and security enhancements are available now in GitHub Enterprise Server 3.6.
Instant Performance Upgrade: From FlatList to FlashList - Shopify
Shopify’s React Native Foundations team created FlashList, a fast and performant list component that can be swapped into your project with minimal effort.
Cloudflare Support Portal gets an overhaul
The Cloudflare Support team has launched a new Support Portal. The portal will give you access to self-help resources, diagnostics with troubleshooting guides, and will provide for easier ticket submission
2022 Transparency Report: January to June
We’re reporting on a six-month period rather than annually to increase our level of transparency. For this report, we’ve continued with the more granular reporting we began in our 2021 reports.
Why React Re-Renders
In React, we don't update the DOM directly, we tell React what we want the DOM to look like, and React tackles the rest. But how exactly does it do this? In this tutorial, we'll unpack exactly when and why React re-renders, and how we can use this information to optimize the performance of our React apps.
Designing A Better Back Button UX — Smashing Magazine
With the “Back” button, users often get confused and frustrated. How to design a better back button UX and where to put those “Back” buttons in our interfaces.
The next step for LGTM.com: GitHub code scanning!
Today, GitHub code scanning has all of LGTM.com’s key features—and more! The time has therefore come to announce the plan for the gradual deprecation of LGTM.com.
Everything Developers Must Know About Figma — Smashing Magazine
Christine highlights some of Figma’s features and possibilities to help you build a design that aligns with code as much as needed and improve your team work.
Crawler Hints supports Microsoft’s IndexNow in helping users find new content
Cloudflare is uniquely positioned to help give crawlers hints about when they should recrawl, if new content has been added, or if content on a site has recently changed
Meet Skeleton: Svelte + Tailwind For Reactive UIs — Smashing Magazine
The power of framework-specific UI libraries, such as Skeleton, can lead to more productivity using the combined ability of Svelte and Tailwind to build modern web-based apps.
2022 attacks! An August reading list to go “Shields Up”
In 2022, cybersecurity, more than ever, is a must-have for those who don’t want to take chances on getting caught in a cyberattack with difficult to deal with consequences. Here’s a reading list what you need to know about attacks that is also a guide on how to be protected
When is JIT Faster Than A Compiler? - Shopify
I had this conversation over and over before I really understood it. It goes: “X language can be as fast as a compiled language because it has a JIT compiler!” “Wow! It’s as fast as C?” “Well, no, we’re working on it. But in theory, it could be even FASTER than C!” “Really? How would that work?” “A JIT can see what your code does at runtime and optimize for only that. So it can do things C can’t!”
Databases For Front-End Developers: The Rise Of Serverless Databases (Part 1) — Smashing Magazine
In this article, the first part of “Databases for Front-end Developers” series, Atila Fassina helps you understand the concepts behind database architecture in order to use them reliably and sheds some light on serverless databases.
GitHub Pages now uses Actions by default
As GitHub Pages, home to 16 million websites, approaches its 15th anniversary, we’re excited to announce that all sites now build and deploy with GitHub Actions.
Implementing Okta Authentication In React — Smashing Magazine
Okta is an identity manager, with features such as single sign-on and multi-factor authentication. Okta can be used to secure the identities of customers and workforces. In this tutorial, we are going to learn how to use Okta for authentication in a React application. We’ll understand the core concepts of Okta, use cases, and why you should use it in your next React application.
The mechanics of a sophisticated phishing scam and how we stopped it
Yesterday, August 8, 2022, Twilio shared that they’d been compromised by a targeted phishing attack. Around the same time as Twilio was attacked, we saw an attack with very similar characteristics also targeting Cloudflare’s employees
Introducing new Cloudflare for SaaS documentation
Cloudflare for SaaS offers a suite of Cloudflare products and add-ons to improve the security, performance, and reliability of SaaS providers. Now, the Cloudflare for SaaS documentation outlines how to optimize it in order to meet your goals
Dependabot now alerts for vulnerable GitHub Actions
GitHub Actions gives teams access to powerful, native CI/CD capabilities right next to their code hosted in GitHub. Starting today, GitHub will send a Dependabot alert for vulnerable GitHub Actions, making it even easier to stay up to date and fix security vulnerabilities in your actions workflows.
Six Tips for Staying Technical as a CTO - Shopify
Shopify CTO Allan Leinwand explains how to stay technical as an engineering leader while balancing the demands of people leadership.
Core Web Vitals Tools To Boost Your Web Performance Scores — Smashing Magazine
Identify, compare, analyze and fix your Core Web Vitals scores to boost web performance of your sites. These tools will help you to do just that.
