HTTP/3: Performance Improvements (Part 2) — Smashing Magazine
After almost five years in development, the new HTTP/3 protocol is nearing its final form. In this second part, Robin Marx will zoom in on the performance improvements that QUIC and HTTP/3 bring to the table for web-page loading. We will, however, also be somewhat skeptical of the impact we can expect from these new features in practice.
Data protection controls with Cloudflare Browser Isolation
Starting today, your team can use Cloudflare’s Browser Isolation service to protect sensitive data inside the web browser. Administrators can define Zero Trust policies to control who can copy, paste, and print data in any web based application.
Announcing Tenant Control in Cloudflare Gateway
Today, we’re excited to announce Tenant Control in Cloudflare Gateway, a new feature that helps keep our work at work.
Your devices and your employer
Diggin’ and Fetchin’ with TruffleRuby - Shopify
It begins with a clever Ruby trick to extract a value from a deeply nested hash we want to refactor and ends with a prototype changing the language itself.
Jamstack CMS: The Past, The Present and The Future — Smashing Magazine
The story of Jamstack CMSs goes all the way back to the 90s. Over the years, there have been many different approaches and evolutions of static and Jamstack CMSs. In this article, Mike Neumegen will take a trip down memory lane to see how we got to the modern Jamstack CMSs we have today, and where they’re heading in the next decade.
Building a Pet Cam using a Raspberry Pi, Cloudflare Tunnels and Teams
This was a perfect weekend project: I would set up my own pet cam, connect it to the Internet, and make it available for me to check from anywhere in the world.
Cloudflare thwarts 17.2M rps DDoS attack — the largest ever reported
Earlier this summer, Cloudflare’s autonomous edge DDoS protection systems automatically detected and mitigated a 17.2 million request-per-second (rps) DDoS attack, an attack almost three times larger than any previous one that we're aware of.
Enhanced support for citations on GitHub
We’re excited to support researchers and academics on GitHub with enhanced citation support through `CITATION.cff` files.
Sometimes it really is just a bad battery
How To Build An Ethical User Research Practice At Any Organization — Smashing Magazine
Ethical user research isn’t only the right thing to do but it makes good business sense. Principles of ethical conduct guide our decision-making, keeping us out of trouble and holding us accountable to our users and society. Through a simple step-by-step approach, you can build an ethical practice within your organization that will ensure you’re respecting the dignity and welfare of your research
The First Three Winners from Cloudflare’s Project Jengo 2 Share $20,000
In April 2021, Cloudflare relaunched Project Jengo, Cloudflare’s prior art search contest. Here are the first round winners and an update on the case.
Capturing Purpose Justification in Cloudflare Access
Starting today, Cloudflare for Teams administrators can prompt users to enter a justification for accessing an application prior to login.
Zero Trust controls for your SaaS applications
With Access in front of your SaaS applications, you can build Zero Trust rules that determine who can reach your SaaS applications in the same place where your rules for self-hosted applications and network access live.
Building a more collaborative design process
How our product design team uses FigJam
RAMP-TAO: Layering atomic transactions on Facebook’s online graph store
What the research is: RAMP-TAO is a new protocol that improves the developer experience on TAO, Facebook’s online social graph store, by providing stronger transactional guarantees. It is the first protocol to provide transactional semantics over an eventually consistent massive-scale data store while still preserving the system’s overall reliability and performance. RAMP-TAO enables an intuitive
A big hole in a big road ate one of my tires
Creating An Interactive Gantt Chart Component With Vanilla JavaScript (Part 1) — Smashing Magazine
In this article, we will code a Gantt chart as a reusable Web component. We will focus on the architecture of the component, rendering the calendar with CSS Grid and managing the state of the draggable tasks with JavaScript Proxy Objects.
6 New Ways to Validate Device Posture
Cloudflare for Teams adds additional posture capabilities to better protect Access backed applications
From a Single Repo, to Multi-Repos, to Monorepo, to Multi-Monorepo
I've been working on the same project for several years. Its initial version was a huge monolithic app containing thousands of files. It was poorly
GitHub Discussions is out of beta
GitHub Discussions is now out of beta, with features that include labels, Discussions GraphQL API and webhooks, and mobile functionality.
Asking nicely for root command execution (and getting it)
Data Lineage at Slack
Reinventing how the world does work inevitably creates a lot of data. Each year, Slack’s scale has increased and the volume of data ingested and stored has kept pace. To make it possible to understand relationships within our data, we’ve invested heavily in an automated data lineage framework. This facilitates producer/consumer coordination, improves risk mitigation,…