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Frontend — A Guide To CSS Debugging — Smashing Magazine

A Guide To CSS Debugging — Smashing Magazine

Debugging in CSS means figuring out what might be the problem when you have unexpected layout results. Today, Stephanie Eckles will look at a few categories bugs often fit into, see how you can evaluate the situation, and explore techniques that help prevent these bugs.

SEStephanie EcklesStephanie Eckles·October 6, 2021Frontend
Engineering — Branching Strategies in Git

Branching Strategies in Git

In this article I'm going to talk about branching strategies and different types of Git branches. I’m also going to introduce you to two common branching workflows: Git Flow and GitHub Flow.

TGTobias GüntherTobias Günther·October 5, 2021Engineering
Networking — More details about the October 4 outage

More details about the October 4 outage

Now that our platforms are up and running as usual after yesterday’s outage, I thought it would be worth sharing a little more detail on what happened and why — and most importantly, how we’re learning from it. This outage was triggered by the system that manages our global backbone network capacity. The backbone is […]

MEMeta Engineering·October 5, 2021Networking
Architecture — Local Testing A Serverless API (API Gateway And Lambda) — Smashing Magazine

Local Testing A Serverless API (API Gateway And Lambda) — Smashing Magazine

Have you ever struggled with testing cloud services locally? Specifically, have you ever struggled with locally testing an API that uses API Gateway and Lambda, with the Serverless framework, on AWS? In this article, Tom Hudson shares a quick overview of how easy it is to quickly set up your project to test locally before deploying to AWS.

TTomhudson·October 5, 2021Architecture
Engineering — ShopTalk Goes Video

ShopTalk Goes Video

Dave and I slapped up a little videos section of the ShopTalk website. Twelve so far! They are short-ish, between 10-20 minutes, each focused on one fairly

CCChris Coyier·October 4, 2021Engineering
Distributed — Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For October 4th, 2021 - High Scalability -

Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For October 4th, 2021 - High Scalability -

Hey, HighScalability is here again! The circulatory system of the internet. @tylermorganwall Love this Stuff? I need your support on Patreon to keep this stuff going. Sorry for the long gap in posting, but I’ve been building a new app. I’m looking for testers for my new iOS fitness app: Max reHIT Workout. It guides you through proven reduced-exertion high-intensity interval workouts. If that inter

HSHigh Scalability·October 4, 2021Distributed
Networking — Update about the October 4th outage

Update about the October 4th outage

To all the people and businesses around the world who depend on us, we are sorry for the inconvenience caused by today’s outage across our platforms. We’ve been working as hard as we can to restore access, and our systems are now back up and running. The underlying cause of this outage also impacted many […]

MEMeta Engineering·October 4, 2021Networking
Frontend — How To Build An Expandable Accessible Gallery — Smashing Magazine

How To Build An Expandable Accessible Gallery — Smashing Magazine

One of the use cases for using CSS Grid is to display a gallery of images, but a gallery on its own may not be that exciting. In this article, Silvestar Bistrović will be looking at how to set up a gallery that is expandable as well as accessible with a few tips and tricks along the way. Let’s get started!

SBSilvestar BistrovicSilvestar Bistrovic·October 4, 2021Frontend
Engineering — The secret to Cloudflare’s pace of Innovation

The secret to Cloudflare’s pace of Innovation

How do we get so much stuff out so quickly? That we are able to innovate — and innovate so quickly — is no happy accident. In fact, this capability has been very deliberately built into the DNA of Cloudflare.

JTJen TaylorJen Taylor·October 3, 2021Engineering