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Applying Product Thinking to Slack’s Internal Compute Platform
According to a recent Thoughtworks radar, “the industry is increasingly gaining experience with platform engineering product teams that create and support internal platforms.” They caveated this with a piece of advice: “When creating a platform, it’s critical to have clearly defined customers and products that will benefit from it rather than building in a vacuum.”…
A Guide To Audio Visualization With JavaScript And GSAP (Part 2) — Smashing Magazine
What started as a case study turned into a guide to visualizing audio with JavaScript. Although the output demos are in React, Jhey Tompkins isn’t going to dwell on the React side of things too much. The underlying techniques work with or without React.
International Women’s Day 2022
Welcome to International Women’s Day 2022! Here at Cloudflare, we are happy to celebrate it with you! Our celebration is not only this blog post, but many events prepared for the month of March: our way of honoring Women’s History Month by showcasing women’s empowerment
Announcing experimental DDR in 1.1.1.1
The majority of DNS queries on the Internet today are unencrypted. This post describes a new protocol, called Discovery of Designated Resolvers (DDR), that allows clients to upgrade from unencrypted DNS to encrypted DNS when only the IP address of a resolver is known.
CVE-2022-26143: A Zero-Day vulnerability for launching UDP amplification DDoS attacks
A zero-day vulnerability in the Mitel MiCollab business phone system has recently been discovered (CVE-2022-26143). This vulnerability, called TP240PhoneHome, which Cloudflare customers are already protected against, can be used to launch UDP amplification attacks
CVE-2022-26143: TP240PhoneHome reflection/amplification DDoS attack vector
A new reflection/amplification distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) vector with a record-breaking potential amplification ratio of 4,294,967,296:1 has been abused by attackers in the wild to launch multiple high-impact DDoS attacks
Some tiny personal programs I've written
Some tiny personal programs I've written
An open source compositional deadlock detector for Android Java
What the research is: We’ve developed a new static analyzer that catches deadlocks in Java code for Android without ever running the code. What distinguishes our analyzer from past research is its ability to analyze revisions in codebases with hundreds of millions of lines of code. We have deployed our analyzer in Meta’s continuous integration […]
A parasitic RPC service that broke core dumps
7 Tips For Optimizing Apache Flink Applications - Shopify
We’ve spent a lot of time on performance tuning our Apache Flink application. We’ll walk you through key lessons for optimizing large stateful Apache Flink applications
Steps we've taken around Cloudflare's services in Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia
At Cloudflare, we watched in horror as Russian invaded Ukraine. As of war looked more likely, we monitored the situation, with the goal of keeping our employees, our customers, and our network safe.
Cloudflare, CrowdStrike, and Ping Identity launch the Critical Infrastructure Defense Project
Cloudflare has launched the Critical Infrastructure Defense Project to counter potential cyber retaliation for sanctions resulting from Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Augmenting Flexible Paxos in LogDevice to improve read availability
We’ve improved read availability in LogDevice, Meta’s scalable distributed log storage system, by removing a fundamental trade-off in Flexible Paxos, the algorithm used to gain consensus among our distributed systems. At Meta’s scale, systems need to be reliable, even in the face of organic failures like power loss events, or when systems are undergoing hardware […]
A sysadmin's rant about feed readers and crawlers
Test Budget: Time Constrained CI Feedback - Shopify
At Shopify we run more than 170,000 tests in our core monolith. Naturally, we're constantly exploring ways to make this faster, and the Test Infrastructure team analyzed the feasibility of introducing a test budget: a fixed amount of time for tests to run. The goal is to speed up the continuous integration (CI) test running phase by accepting more risk. To achieve that goal we used prioritization
Performance Signals For Customizing Website UX — Smashing Magazine
Using signals to deliver less, or different, content is a form of progressive enhancement (or graceful degradation depending on how you look at it), whereby extraneous content is only loaded when necessary, but the core functionality of the website still works. In this article, we’ll look at some of the signals that can be used for this.
Editing stuff in prod
Shields up: free Cloudflare services to improve your cyber readiness
Whether you’re a seasoned professional or a novice website operator, free Cloudflare resources are available. Beyond these resources, there are a few simple steps that you can take to stay protected.
Internet traffic patterns in Ukraine since February 21, 2022
Cloudflare operates in more than 250 cities worldwide where we connect our equipment to the Internet to provide our broad range of services
The 2030 Self-Driving Car Bet
It’s my honor to announce that John Carmack and I have initiated a friendly bet of $10,000* to the 501(c)(3) charity of the winner’s choice: By January 1st, 2030, completely autonomous self-driving cars meeting SAE J3016 level 5 will be commercially available for passenger use in major cities. I am betting against, and John is betting for. By “completely autonomous,” per the SAE level 5 definition
Adding the V8 CPU Profiler to v8go - Shopify
V8 is Google’s open source high-performance JavaScript and WebAssembly engine written in C++. v8go is a library written in Go and C++ allowing users to execute JavaScript from Go using V8 isolates. Using Cgo bindings allows us to run JavaScript in Go at native performance. The v8go library, developed by Roger Chapman, aims to provide an idiomatic way for Go developers to interface with V8. As it t
How To Create An Information Architecture That Is Easy To Use — Smashing Magazine
If users cannot find the answers to their questions or are not exposed to critical messaging, they will not act, and your website will fail. To prevent that from happening, you need an effective information architecture. In this article, Paul Boag provides you with a process to ensure you have precisely that.
