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Debugging Systems in the Cloud: MySQL, Kubernetes, and Cgroups - Shopify
An overview of how we investigated and solved the issue of some Kubernetes Pods running MySQL starting up and shutting down slower than other similar Pods with the same data set.
Respecting Users’ Motion Preferences — Smashing Magazine
The `prefers-reduced-motion` media query has excellent support in all modern browsers going back a couple of years. In this article, Michelle Barker explains why there’s no reason not to use it today to make your sites more accessible.
Indexing the creator economy
We indexed the creator economy by measuring the growth of creator platforms on Stripe. Creators are coming online at a record clip—from all around the world. More and more are earning a living wage doing what they do best
Traffic Sequence: Which Product Runs First?
Understand how Cloudflare product’s interact via the new dashboard addition ‘Traffic Sequence’.
Getting Cloudflare Tunnels to connect to the Cloudflare Network with QUIC
It is now possible to connect a Cloudflare Tunnel to the Cloudflare network with QUIC. While doing this, we ran into an interesting connectivity problem unique to UDP.
Zero Trust — Not a Buzzword
Over the last few years, Zero Trust, a term coined by Forrester, picked up a lot of steam. Zero Trust, in its core, is a network architecture and security framework focusing on not having a distinction between external and internal access environments, and never trusting users/roles.
WITH HOLD cursors and transactions in PostgreSQL
This article describes how cursors and transactions interact, how WITH HOLD can overcome the limitations, plus some caveats and tricks.
Diversity, inclusion, and belonging at GitHub in 2021
In the past two years, GitHub has doubled in size, welcoming more than 760 new Hubbers in 2021 alone. This past year we particularly focused on our goal of making GitHub more equitable. We saw growth in our diversity representation, whose population increased at a higher rate than the company itself.
Autonomous testing of services at scale
Enabling developers to prototype, test, and iterate on new features quickly is important to Facebook’s success. To do this effectively, it’s key to have a stable infrastructure that doesn’t introduce unnecessary friction. This gets significantly more challenging when the infrastructure in question must also scale to support more than 3 billion people around the world, […]
Facebook engineers receive 2021 IEEE Computer Society Cybersecurity Award for static analysis tools
Until recently, static analysis tools weren’t seen by our industry as a reliable element of securing code at scale. After nearly a decade of investing in refining these systems, I’m so proud to celebrate our engineering teams today for being awarded the IEEE Computer Society’s Cybersecurity Award for Practice for development and deployment of static […]
Building the Next Evolution of Cloud Networks at Slack – A Retrospective
About a year ago, I wrote a blog post called Building the Next Evolution of Cloud Networks at Slack. In it, we discussed how Slack’s AWS infrastructure has evolved over the years and the pain points that drove us to spin up a brand-new network architecture redesign project called Whitecastle. If you have not had…
Building The SSG I’ve Always Wanted: An 11ty, Vite And JAM Sandwich — Smashing Magazine
Back in January 2020, Ben Holmes set out to do what just about every web developer does each year: rebuild his personal site. In this article, he shares his story of how he set out to build his own build pipeline from absolute ground zero and created [Slinkity](https://slinkity.dev/).
Introducing the Payment Element
Today, we're introducing the Payment Element, an embeddable UI component for your checkout flow that supports 18 payment methods with a single integration.
Backwards-compatibility in Cloudflare Workers
On the Workers team, we have a policy: A change to the Workers Runtime must never break an application that is live in production.
An Interview With Elad Shechter on "The New CSS Reset"
Hey folks! Elad reached out to me to show me his new CSS reset project called the-new-css-reset. It’s quite interesting! I thought a neat way to share it with
What’s new from GitHub Changelog? September 2021 recap
Catch up on 44 ships, including a colorblind-accessible theme, a public README.md for organizations, and customization of code review settings.
Chrome in-the-wild bug analysis: CVE-2021-37975
This post is a technical analysis of a recently disclosed Chrome vulnerability in the garbage collector of v8 (CVE-2021-37975) that was believed to be exploited in the wild. This vulnerability was reported by an anonymous researcher and was patched on September 30, 2021 in Chrome version 94.0.4606.71. I’ll cover the root cause analysis of the bug, as well as detailed exploitation.
Building an awesome image loading experience
How Unsplash's blurred image loading works and why I did mine differently for a more excellent experience on my site.
RTMP Go Away: Lossless reconnections for live streaming
What it is: Real Time Messaging Protocol (RTMP) is a popular media streaming protocol that uses Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) persistent connections. When a connection between a live-streaming client and the platform is interrupted, data from the live event is lost until the client can reconnect to a new server. RTMP Go Away is a […]
GitHub Does My Operations Homework: A Ruby Speed Story - Shopify
Learn how fast YJIT really is. This posts walks through Shopify's new benchmarking harness for YJIT, plus graphs and benchmarks updated twice a day.
Building An API With Gatsby Functions — Smashing Magazine
With server-side and client-side code coexisting in the same code base, front-end developers can extend the reach of what’s possible using the tools they already know and love. In this tutorial, Paul Scanlon explains how to build an API by using Gatsby Functions and what you need to keep in mind when deploying it to Gatsby Cloud.
Smashing Podcast Episode 42 With Jeff Smith: What Is DevOps? — Smashing Magazine
In this episode, we’re talking about DevOps. What is it, and is it a string to add to your web development bow? Drew McLellan talks to expert Jeff Smith to find out.
