After the Refactor: A Path to Faster Rendering with Liquid-C - Shopify
Not every feature of open-source template language Liquid has been ported over to Liquid-C, such as the If tag and For Tag. I started to look into how to compile Liquid’s If tag from Liquid-C, a process that would improve parsing time.
An Introduction To AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) — Smashing Magazine
In this article, Vivek Maskara introduces Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) Cloud Development Kit (CDK) which is increasingly becoming a popular tool for managing AWS-based infrastructure. We’ll take a closer look into CDK concepts, and then how to use the AWS CDK toolkit to deploy a sample application to an AWS account.
DNSSEC issues take Fiji domains offline
DNSSEC issues with the .fj ccTLD caused problems reaching websites on the island nation
Our response to Ukraine
A note to our community
Toll signs on 101 report your transponder setting
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.