How stroke-dasharray Patterns Work
Say you have a line in SVG:
Spin Infrastructure Adventures: Containers, Systemd, and CGroups - Shopify
The Spin infrastructure team works hard at improving the stability of the system. In February 2022 we moved to Container Optimized OS (COS), the Google maintained operating system for their Kubernetes Engine SaaS offering. A month later we turned on multi-cluster to allow for increased scalability as more users came on board. Recently, we’ve increased default resources allotted to instances dramat
Resolving Conflicts Between Designers And Engineers — Smashing Magazine
Often, it’s easier for an engineer to see the aspects of a good user experience than for a designer to understand the technical aspects of how something functions, let alone how feasible it is. Regardless, the two sides work best when both lower their guards and reach across the aisle. In this article, Scott Himmer will go over some areas where you might find the design and engineering conflicts m
Mantis - the most powerful botnet to date
We named the botnet that launched the 26M rps (requests per second) DDoS attack "Mantis" as it is also like the Mantis shrimp, small but very powerful
How the James Webb Telescope's cosmic pictures impacted the Internet
We show how the July 11-12 James Webb Telescope images that were revealed had an impact on DNS traffic in NASA and ESA websites, video and image hosting platforms, and news websites. The ‘cosmic’ results may be surprising
Research: How GitHub Copilot helps improve developer productivity
We surveyed more than 2,000 developers about whether GitHub Copilot helped them be more productive and improved their coding. Then, we matched this qualitative feedback and subjective perception with quantitative data around objective usage measurements and productivity.
Owl: Distributing content at Meta scale
Being able to distribute large, widely -consumed objects (so-called hot content) efficiently to hosts is becoming increasingly important within Meta’s private cloud. These are commonly distributed content types such as executables, code artifacts, AI models, and search indexes that help enable our software systems. Owl is a new system for high-fanout distribution of large data […]
Using Nothing But Docker For Projects — Smashing Magazine
Using only Docker to build and run applications and commands removes the need for previous knowledge in some tool or programming language. Also, it avoids the necessity to install new modules and dependencies directly to the system, which makes development machine-independent.
25,000 new trees in Nova Scotia
Cloudflare is proud to announce the first 35,000 trees from our commitment to help clean up bad bots (and the climate) have been planted
Waiting Room Event Scheduling protects your site during online events
With Event Scheduling for Waiting Room, you can protect your servers from being overloaded during your event while delivering a user experience that is unique to the occasion and consistent with your brand
In Praise of Shadows
Our dear friend Robin has a new essay called In Praise of Shadows. Now, before you hop over there looking for nuggets on CSS box shadows, text shadows, and
Smashing Podcast Episode 49 With Paul Boag: How Do You Ship A Billion-Dollar Idea? — Smashing Magazine
In this episode, we ask what qualities are required to introduce change in large organizations, how to convince management to do the right thing, and how to ship a billion-dollar idea. Vitaly talks to expert Paul Boag to find out.
Kendo UI For Angular Data Grid And Angular Material: Have Your Cake And Eat It Too — Smashing Magazine
Although Angular Material is one of the most popular component libraries which also offers a table, it lacks some crucial data handling features. In this article, Zara Cooper will examine some of the features of the Kendo UI for Angular Data Grid in comparison to those offered by the Angular Material Table.
Introducing Location-Aware DDoS Protection
Location-Aware DDoS Protection is now available in beta for Cloudflare Enterprise customers that are subscribed to the Advanced DDoS service
Technical Writing for Developers
HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python, PHP, C++, Dart — there are so many programming languages out there and you may even be totally fluent in several of them! But
Introducing Focus, a new open source Gradle plugin
Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For July 11th, 2022 - High Scalability -
Never fear, HighScalability is here! Every cell a universe. Most detailed image of a human cell to date. @microscopicture Other images considered: one byte of RAM in 1946; visual guide on troubleshooting Kubernetes; Cloudflare using lava lamps to generate cryptographic keys; 5MB of data looked like in 1966 My Stuff: * Love this Stuff? I need your support on Patreon to help keep this stuff going. *
Statements Vs. Expressions
One of the most foundational things to understand about JavaScript is that programs are made up of statements, and statements have slots for expressions. In this blog post, we'll dig into how these two structures work, and see how building an intuition about this can help us solve practical problems.
A Look At Remix And The Differences With Next.js — Smashing Magazine
Let’s talk about Remix, the framework to create JavaScript projects using server-side rendering. Let’s go through its main features and concepts and see the similarities and differences with Next.js. Remix became open-source not so long ago, and it has a promising future. Let’s see how it evolves, which features are added, which related projects are created to improve the developer experience, and
Monitoring tiny web services
Monitoring tiny web services
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
