Engineering Insights & Guides

Can Include (a Certain HTML element within another Certain HTML Element)

A single-serving website from Alexander Vishnyakov for testing if it's valid to put any particular HTML element within another type of HTML element. Kinda

CCChris Coyier·October 22, 2021Frontend

Exploring the CSS Paint API: Rounding Shapes

Adding borders to complex shapes is a pain, but rounding the corner of complex shapes is a nightmare! Luckily, the CSS Paint API is here to the rescue! That’s

Temani Afif·October 22, 2021Frontend

GitHub Actions for security and compliance

GitHub Actions can automate several common security and compliance tasks, even if your CI/CD pipeline is managed by another tool.

Philip Holleran·October 22, 2021Security

How To Build A Real-Time Multi-User Game From Scratch — Smashing Magazine

It’s impressive how quickly a real-time multi-user application can be built with Colyseus — once you figure out how to properly describe the schema. This article highlights the process, technical decisions and lessons learned behind building the real-time game Autowuzzler. Learn how to share game state across multiple clients in real-time with Colyseus, do physics calculations with Matter.js, stor

Martin Grubinger·October 22, 2021Engineering

What if… you could use Visual Studio Code as the editor of in-browser Developer Tools?

It's not uncommon for my front-end workflow to go something like this:

Geoff Graham·October 21, 2021Frontend

Open sessions: jam with anyone, anywhere

Introducing a way for collaborators to temporarily join meetings and workshops

PKPriya Kotak·October 21, 2021Engineering

GitHub Marketplace welcomes its 10,000th action

GitHub Marketplace just passed 10,000 published actions! Learn about contributing to this growing open source ecosystem.

John Bohannon·October 21, 2021Engineering

How to get useful answers to your questions

JEJulia Evans·October 21, 2021Engineering

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.

SEShopify Engineering·October 21, 2021Databases

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.

Michelle Barker·October 21, 2021Engineering

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

Edwin Wee·October 21, 2021Engineering

Traffic Sequence: Which Product Runs First?

Understand how Cloudflare product’s interact via the new dashboard addition ‘Traffic Sequence’.

Sam Marsh·October 20, 2021Engineering

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.

Sudarsan·October 20, 2021Networking

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.

Fernando·October 20, 2021Security

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.

LALaurenz Albe·October 20, 2021Databases

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.

Sofia Bonnet·October 20, 2021Engineering

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, […]

MEMeta Engineering·October 20, 2021SRE & Ops

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 […]

MEMeta Engineering·October 20, 2021Security

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…

AGArchie Gunasekara·October 20, 2021Networking

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/).