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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
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.
Cloudflare for Teams adds additional posture capabilities to better protect Access backed applications
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 now out of beta, with features that include labels, Discussions GraphQL API and webhooks, and mobile functionality.
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,…
Your project is on a tight budget? We’ve collected some wonderful, free icons and goodies that we’ve discovered lately and that are bound to give your design the finishing touch. We’ve also just recently covered [Figma plugins](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2021/08/figma-tools-plugins-resources/), [SVG generators](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2021/03/svg-generators/), [accessible front-end
With Cloudflare for Teams, Administrators can allow their users to securely access applications with Cloudflare Access and explicitly block users from visiting various applications with Cloudflare Gateway.
HTML is not a programming language.
Brian Kardell shares a bit about the progress of bringing "Tabs" to HTML. We kinda think we know what they are, but you have to be really specific when dealing with specs and defining them. It's tricky.
Ahmad Shadeed dug into shape "cutouts" the other day. Imagine a shape with another smaller shape carved out of it. In his typical comprehensive way, Ahmad
Four Figmates share their advice, learnings, and reflections on joining Figma
The open source Git project just released Git 2.33, with features and bug fixes from over 74 contributors. Here’s a look at some of the most interesting features and changes.
The benefits of multifactor authentication are widely documented, and there are a number of options for using 2FA on GitHub.
Software development without a roadmap is akin to driving off a cliff — an undertaking that seriously jeopardizes your product’s life. What is a business technology roadmap, and how can one be developed to support software development? That’s what we’re here to talk about. Here’s how to develop a business technology roadmap that ensures your project safely reaches its final destination.
We are excited to announce our participation in the Apricot subsea cable system, together with leading regional and global partners. When completed, the project (which is still subject to regulatory approvals) will deliver much-needed internet capacity, redundancy, and reliability to expand connections in the Asia-Pacific region. The 12,000-kilometer-long cable will connect Japan, Taiwan, Guam, th
We’re giving away 300+ boxes of our most popular swag, while enabling collaboration with other participants through our Workers Discord channel.
If you haven’t already heard, we’re hosting the Cloudflare Summer Developer Challenge, a contest for the Cloudflare community at large. Anybody – yes, including you – can sign up for free and compete for a chance to win one of 300 available prizes.
Whether you are just starting out on the front end, or you’ve been doing it for a long time, building a tool that can generate some cool front-end magic can
I’ve been managing Developer Infrastructure teams (alternatively known as Developer Acceleration, Developer Productivity, and other such names) for almost a decade now. Developer Infrastructure (which we usually shorten to “Dev Infra”) covers a lot of ground, especially at a company like Shopify that’s invested heavily in the area, from developer environments and continuous integration/continuous
Today, we are taking another step in helping to reduce the Internet’s reliance on CAPTCHAs to prove that you are not a robot. We are expanding the reach of our Cryptographic Attestation of Personhood experiment by adding support for a much wider range of devices.
In Cryptographic Attestation of Personhood the server sends a message to the browser that the hardware security signs, demonstrating its authenticity.
