Join GitHub at the Grace Hopper Celebration 2022
We’re thrilled to be back at the Grace Hopper Celebration at Open Source Day, the largest celebration of women in open source. Stop by and say hi at one of our workshops.
Our Hybrid and Collaborative Summer @ Slack’s Data Eng
An internship at Slack is an exciting opportunity to learn new skills, meet other engineers, and build cool stuff. This was the reality for three interns on the Data Engineering team this summer. Throughout our time in this flex-work environment, we got to experience both the wide reach of the virtual environment and the benefits…
Making Sense Of WAI-ARIA: A Comprehensive Guide — Smashing Magazine
In this article, Kate Kalcevich explains when to use ARIA and how to use it properly so that you can use ARIA in a way that’s helpful to the many disabled people who use [assistive technology](https://makeitfable.com/glossary/?utm_source=Smashing+Magazine&utm_medium=sponsored+content&utm_campaign=Upskill&utm_term=Fable&utm_content=Sept2022) to navigate the Internet. Let’s dive in!
Using the latest Next.js 12.3 features on Vercel
Vercel natively supports and extends Next.js 12.3, allowing teams to improve their workflow and iterate faster.
Building Interactive Figma Widgets
Figma has always encouraged collaboration between developers and designers. It strives on an endless treasury of community-made plugins.
Gear-up and unlock the newest GitHub Global Campus features
Calling all students and teachers! With semester change coming soon, now is the time to start using the latest features within GitHub Education and Global Campus!
Why do domain names sometimes end with a dot?
Why do domain names sometimes end with a dot?
MemLab: An open source framework for finding JavaScript memory leaks
We’ve open-sourced MemLab, a JavaScript memory testing framework that automates memory leak detection. Finding and addressing the root cause of memory leaks is important for delivering a quality user experience on web applications. MemLab has helped engineers and developers at Meta improve user experience and make significant improvements in memory optimization. We hope it will […]
Meet “Smart Interface Design Patterns Checklists” (Deck With 166 Cards) — Smashing Magazine
Meet “Smart Interface Design Patterns Checklists”, a deck of 166 checklist cards to help you design and build better interfaces, faster. With accordions, mega-drop-downs, data tables, carousels, and everything in-between.
Building a viral application to visualize train routes
How Benjamin Td built a viral application called Chronotrains to visualize train routes across Europe.
SCA vs SAST: what are they and which one is right for you?
We’re taking a look at two commonly-used security tools and detailing how they can help secure your projects.
Leveraging Go Worker Pools to Scale Server-side Data Sharing - Shopify
How Shopify scaled our Server Pixels service to increase its event processing performance by 170%.
One Formula To Rule Them All: The ROI Of A Design System — Smashing Magazine
Design systems are a crucial success factor for digital businesses, and virtually every major player works with one. Still, they can sometimes be hard to sell to management. Here’s a ready-to-use formula to calculate the ROI of any design system.
How to run A/B tests with Next.js and Vercel
Learn how to run A/B tests with Next.js and Vercel Edge Middleware.
Curve fitting for charts: better visualizations for Vercel Analytics
How we made your Vercel Analytics data more actionable to drive performance for your application.
GitHub Copilot now available for teachers
After a year in technical preview, GitHub Copilot, an AI pair programmer, is now free for all teachers verified on GitHub Global Campus.
Research: open source software in India, Kenya, Egypt, and Mexico
Read the new GitHub report on OSS in India, Kenya, Egypt, and Mexico. Available now in English, and in Spanish and Arabic later this year.
UX Checklists For Interface Designers — Smashing Magazine
UX checklists with best design practices, accessibility guidelines, design system checklist, tables UX checklist, UX research methods, form design UX and flowcharts.
Overlapping Bar Charts
As the name suggests, overlapping charts visualize two different sets of data in a single diagram. The idea is that the overlapping bars allow us to compare
GitHub Availability Report: August 2022
In August, we experienced one incident resulting in significant impact to Codespaces. We’re still investigating that incident and will include it in next month’s report. This report also sheds light into an incident that impacted Codespaces in July.
Research: quantifying GitHub Copilot’s impact on developer productivity and happiness
When the GitHub Copilot Technical Preview launched just over one year ago, we wanted to know one thing: Is this tool helping developers? The GitHub Next team conducted research using a combination of surveys and experiments, which led us to expected and unexpected answers.
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Open-sourcing TAOBench: An end-to-end social network benchmark
What the research is: The continued emergence of large social network applications has introduced a scale of data and query volume that challenges the limits of existing data stores. However, few benchmarks accurately simulate these request patterns, leaving researchers in short supply of tools to evaluate and improve upon these systems. To address this issue, […]
Network Entitlement: A contract-based network sharing solution
Meta’s overall network usage and traffic volume has increased as we’ve continued to add new services. Due to the scarcity of fiber resources, we’re developing an explicit resource reservation framework to effectively plan, manage, and operate the shared consumption of network bandwidth, which will help us keep up with demand and limit network disruptions during […]