NIST’s pleasant post-quantum surprise
On Tuesday, the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced which post-quantum cryptography they will standardize.
Cloudflare’s view of the Rogers Communications outage in Canada
An outage at one of the largest ISPs in Canada, Rogers Communications, started earlier today, July 8, 2022, and is ongoing (eight hours and counting), and is impacting businesses and consumers.
Automatic Signed Exchanges may dramatically boost your site visitor numbers
Automatic Signed Exchanges may dramatically boost your site visitor numbers
A Five-Step Approach To The Metaverse — Smashing Magazine
The hype surrounding the metaverse is making many companies and people, including designers, experience FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out). As a designer, you may be tasked with figuring out how your company should approach the metaverse or thinking about designing for the metaverse. In this article, Lyndon Cerejo will discuss a few steps he recommends before diving headfirst into any design for the metav
Announcing support for WASI on Cloudflare Workers
Today, we are announcing experimental support for WASI (the WebAssembly System Interface) on Cloudflare Workers and support within wrangler2 to make it a joy to work with
New WAF intelligence feeds
Cloudflare is expanding our WAF’s threat intelligence capabilities by adding four new managed IP lists that can be used as part of any custom firewall rule
Top tips for creating a healthy and sustainable open source community
Read about the six key themes, and tips for each, that ensure sustainable and healthy open source communities.
Shopify’s Technical Interview Process: What to Expect and How to Prepare - Shopify
This guide pulls back the curtain on what to expect during the interview process for technical roles at Shopify and sets you up for success with tips for each stage.
An Accessibility-First Approach To Chart Visual Design — Smashing Magazine
Using a data visualization case study, we will explore how an accessibility-first approach led us down the path of creating a better visual design for charts. Throughout the article, we will highlight how we used the seemingly constraining [Web Content Accessibility Standards](https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG21/) (WCAG) to become an empowering factor in our design process. We will also discuss how this
DDoS attack trends for 2022 Q2
Welcome to our 2022 Q2 DDoS report. This report includes insights and trends about the DDoS threat landscape — as observed across the global Cloudflare network
GitHub Availability Report: June 2022
In June, we experienced four incidents resulting in significant impact to multiple GitHub.com services. This report also sheds light into an incident that impacted several GitHub.com services in May.
Managing a game dev community with GitHub Actions
A Little Game Called Mario is an open source, collectively developed hell project. Anyone and everyone is welcome to contribute their unique talents to make both the player and developer experience more enjoyable. Find out how the collective leverages GitHub Actions to manage this wonderful little community.
Watch Meta’s engineers discuss QUIC and TCP innovations for our network
With more than 75 percent of our internet traffic set to use QUIC and HTTP/3 together, QUIC is slowly moving to become the de facto protocol used for internet communication at Meta. For Meta’s data center network, TCP remains the primary network transport protocol that supports thousands of services on top of it. As our […]
Shopify and Open Source: A Mutually Beneficial Relationship - Shopify
Shopify and Rails have grown up together. Both were in their infancy in 2004, and our CEO (Tobi) was one of the first contributors and a member of Rails Core. Shopify was built on top of Rails, and our engineering culture is rooted in the Rails Doctrine, from developer happiness to the omakase menu, sharp knives, and majestic monoliths. We embody the doctrine pillars. Shopify's success is due, in
Designing Effective Pricing Plans UX — Smashing Magazine
Pricing pages can be complex and confusing. Let
Internet disruptions overview for Q2 2022
In this post, we review selected Internet disruptions observed by Cloudflare during the second quarter of 2022, supported by traffic graphs from Cloudflare Radar and other internal Cloudflare tools.
Making Page Shield malicious code alerts more actionable
In this post we go over improvements to script status, metadata and categorization.
Handling Bonus Programs in SQL
Learn how to address the issue of bonus programs in SQL, improve your understanding of PostgreSQL, and calculate bonus points efficiently
The Story Behind Shopify’s Isospin Tooling - Shopify
You may have read that Shopify has built an in-house cloud development platform named Spin. In that post, we covered the history of the platform and how it powers our everyday work. In this post, we’ll take a deeper dive into one specific aspect of Spin: Isospin, Shopify’s systemd-based tooling that forms the core of how we run applications within Spin. The initial implementation of Spin used the
How To Build A Localized Website With Hugo And Strapi — Smashing Magazine
Strapi is an open-source headless content management system (CMS) built with Node.js, and Hugo builds sites pretty fast, with average site builds completed in a second or less. In this tutorial, Zara Cooper explains how to use Strapi’s Internationalization feature to create content in multiple languages. You’ll also learn how to create a Hugo site that consumes localized content from Strapi.
A July 4 technical reading list
Here’s a short list of recent technical blog posts to give you something to read today
Accelerating UX Maturity With A Breakthrough Project — Smashing Magazine
In this article, John Scott Bowie shares the story of 40 years of attempts to advance corporate UX maturity that — after numerous initiatives with marginal results — culminated in a breakthrough project that accelerated a company’s UX maturity from “Emergent” to “User-Driven” in less than a year.
Optimizing TCP for high WAN throughput while preserving low latency
In this post, we describe how we modified the Linux kernel to optimize for both low latency and high throughput concurrently
Collective Nouns for the Web
Melanie Sumner has this super-specific collection of web-related nouns for describing a group or set of something. You know how there's a school or fish or a
