The World of CSS Transforms
The “transform” property is such a powerful part of the CSS language! In this blog post, we'll take a deep look at this property and see some of the nifty things it can do.
Risk-driven backbone management during COVID-19 and beyond
What the research is: A first-of-its-kind study detailing our backbone management strategy to ensure high service performance throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic moved most social interactions online and caused an unprecedented stress test on our global network infrastructure with tens of data center regions. At this scale, failures such as fiber cuts, router misconfigurations, […] Read
HTTP/3 From A To Z: Core Concepts — Smashing Magazine
After almost five years in development, the new HTTP/3 protocol is nearing its final form. Earlier iterations were already available as an experimental feature, but you can expect the availability and use of HTTP/3 proper to ramp up over in 2021. So what exactly is HTTP/3? Why was it needed so soon after HTTP/2? How can or should you use it? And especially, how does it improve web performance? Let
Introducing Deploy Hooks for Cloudflare Pages
Today, we are proud to announce a new way to connect your Pages application with your headless CMSs and databases: introducing Deploy Hooks for Pages.
New Nuxt Features past v2.10
Nuxt offers an incredible developer experience, with a lot of performance and application setup best practices baked in. In recent releases, they’ve been
Efficient Infinite Utility Helpers Using Inline CSS Custom Properties and calc()
I recently wrote a very basic Sass loop that outputs several padding and margin utility classes. Nothing fancy, really, just a Sass map with 11 spacing
How we built a general purpose key value store for Facebook with ZippyDB
ZippyDB is the largest strongly consistent, geographically distributed key-value store at Facebook. Since we first deployed ZippyDB in 2013, this key-value store has expanded rapidly, and today, ZippyDB serves a number of use cases, ranging from metadata for a distributed filesystem, counting events for both internal and external purposes, to product data that’s used for […]
Understanding GraphQL for Beginners–Part Three - Shopify
In Understanding GraphQL for Beginners–Part Three, we learn what are mutations and create mutation queries to modify data.
Four Useful VSCode Extensions For Web Developers — Smashing Magazine
VS Code can be supercharged wuth hundreds of [VS Code extensions](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2021/05/useful-vs-code-extensions-web-developers/). In this article, Leonardo shares four useful extensions that help him in his daily work.
Cloudflare Helps K-12s Go Back to School
Cloudflare is excited to announce our Back to School initiative that provides special K-12 Education pricing to help school districts stop cyber attacks while improving web performance.
How to Build a Full-Stack Mobile Application With Flutter, Fauna, and GraphQL
Flutter is Google's UI framework used to create flexible, expressive cross-platform mobile applications. It is one of the fastest-growing frameworks for
Release Radar
It’s been a busy time of the year for our Hubbers (GitHub employees). We’ve been shipping products, getting ready for launches, and taking some much needed time off for the…
Usability Pitfalls of Disabled Buttons, and How To Avoid Them — Smashing Magazine
How can we make disabled buttons more inclusive? When do they work well, and when do they fail on us? And finally, when do we actually need them, and how can we avoid them? In this article, Vitaly Friedman will take a look to common usability issues with disabled buttons, how to fix these issues and when disabling buttons actually makes sense. We’ll start from the beginning, looking into when disa
Modernizing a familiar approach to REST APIs, with PostgreSQL and Cloudflare Workers
By using PostgREST with Postgres, we can build REST API-based applications. In particular, it's an excellent fit for Cloudflare Workers, our serverless function platform. Workers is a great place to build REST APIs.
Open sourcing Winterfell: A STARK prover and verifier
We are releasing Winterfell, our implementation of a STARK prover/verifier to Crates.io Winterfell is an easy to use open source implementation of STARKs for security and privacy applications. One potential application for Winterfell’s zero-knowledge proofs is blockchain privacy and scalability. “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” —Clarke’s Third Law What if the
React Children And Iteration Methods — Smashing Magazine
In this article, we’ll discuss and learn about the use case of iterating over React `children` and the ways to do it. In particular, we will deep dive into one of the utility methods, `React.Children.toArray`, that React gives us, which helps to iterate over the children in a way which ensures performance and determinism.
Durable Objects: Easy, Fast, Correct — Choose three
When multiple clients access the same storage concurrently, race conditions abound. Durable Objects can make it easier. We recently rolled out improvements to Durable Objects that automatically correct many common race conditions while actually making your code faster.
How To Build Resilient JavaScript UIs — Smashing Magazine
Embracing the fragility of the web empowers us to build UIs capable of adapting to the functionality they can offer, whilst still providing value to users. The User Experience (UX) doesn’t need to be all or nothing — just what is usable. This premise, known as graceful degradation allows a system to continue working when parts of it are dysfunctional — much like an electric bike becomes a regular
Helping Keep Governments Safe and Secure
Cloudflare and Accenture Federal Services (AFS) have been selected to deliver a joint solution to help the United States Government defend against cybersecurity attacks.
Evolution of search engines architecture - Algolia New Search Architecture Part 1 - High Scalability -
What would a totally new search engine architecture look like? Who better than Julien Lemoine, Co-founder & CTO of Algolia, to describe what the future of search will look like. This is the first article in a series. Search engines, and more generally, information retrieval systems, play a central role in almost all of today’s technical stacks. Information retrieval started in the beginning of com
Reliability meeting experiences
Refactoring CSS: Strategy, Regression Testing And Maintenance (Part 2) — Smashing Magazine
After analyzing CSS and its weaknesses, and management giving a green light to the refactoring project, it’s time to get to work. A team needs to agree on the internal code standards and best practices, plan out the refactoring strategy, and outline individual tasks. We need to set up a visual regression testing suite, and a maintenance plan to enforce the new standards and best practices in the f
Measurement, benchmarking, and data analysis are underrated
Four Lessons We Learned from Creating Spotify’s Desktop App
TL;DR Over the years, Spotify’s brand has expanded to encompass a number of products, from mobile apps to to . But sitting at the core is our flagship product, the one that started it all: the desktop app. In of our podcast series, “”, host and Chief R&D Officer Gustav Söderström walks through how the app (and Spotify in general) came to be — and the product lessons you should take away from that