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There are many scenarios where we don’t need to follow the architecture that frameworks like React or Next.js impose on us, and that is OK. However, jQuery is a library that contains a lot of code and features that are not needed anymore. In this article, Facundo Giuliani will take a closer look at different approaches and strategies on how you can migrate a web application that uses jQuery framew
Cloudflare has been publishing statistics about all the teams involved in EURO 2020 and traffic to betting websites, sports newspapers, streaming services and sponsors. Here’s a quick look at some specific highlights from England’s and Italy’s EURO 2020.
At GitHub, we recently added a new feature to Rails that will be available in 7.0: support for handling associations across database clusters.
Our infrastructure supports thousands of services that handle billions of requests per second. We’ve previously discussed how we built our service encryption infrastructure to keep these globally distributed services operating securely and performantly. This post discusses the system we designed to enforce encryption policies within our network and shares some of the lessons we learned […] Read Mo
In this three-part series, Adrian Bece is going to go through the CSS refactor process from the beginning to the end, starting with knowledge on how to approach it and some general pros and cons of refactoring, then moving onto the refactoring strategies themselves and ending with some general best practices on CSS file size and performance. CSS refactoring is not an easy task — it needs to be don
What the research is: The Ribbon filter is a new data structure that is more space-efficient than the popular Bloom filters that are widely used for optimizing data retrieval. One of the ways that Bloom, and now Ribbon, filters solve real engineering problems is by providing smooth configurability unmatched by other filters. Bloom filters work […]
We’ll discuss how we scaled our interactive query infrastructure to handle the rapid growth of our datasets, while enabling a query execution time of less than 5 seconds.
Accessibility is often overlooked or bolted on to the end of a project from the experiences in Todd’s career in web development and design. The case for accessibility is something we as people who create and build things for the web should be implementing and advocating for from the inception of a project to the release or handoff and beyond.
Today we’re excited to announce Origin Error Rate notifications: a new, sophisticated way to detect and notify you when Cloudflare sees elevated levels of 5xx errors from your origin.
Command line tools are one of the most popular applications we have today. We use command line tools every day, and they range from git, npm or yarn. Command
We have opened an office in New York City to better connect with Figmates and users
Write good examples by starting with real code
High availability and short response times are necessary, making background jobs an indispensable tool regardless of the application’s scale.
Even though Vue.js claims to have an approachable minimalist framework that can be incrementally adaptable, it can be a little bit overwhelming when starting as a Vue.js newbie. In this tutorial, Uma Victor will take a look at some tips and tools to help you become a better Vue developer. You will start with some helpful insights on organizing your projects for scale and other great points to note
Perform URL Normalization, URL Rewriting, or Header Modification without having to write a line of code!
Astro is a brand new framework for building websites. To me, the big thing is that it allows you to build a site like you're using a JavaScript framework (and
There are a lot of great defaults when it comes to browsers and the web. Think about all the accessibility features that are baked into HTML so that you don’t
The team at News UK shares their experience creating a design system across print, online, radio, and TV
Found 99 vulnerabilities (84 moderately irrelevant, 15 highly irrelevant)
In this article, Emiliano explains why Figma Interactive Components (now in beta) will improve how we create prototypes. The new feature reduces the time and effort needed to create interactions by bringing down the cost of design exploration. There’s no need for previous Figma knowledge and experience — all you’ll need is a free Figma account if you’d like to try it out for yourself.
We’re excited to announce that Kathy Korevec is joining our leadership team at Vercel as Head of Product to accelerate our mission to bring the best developer experience to our customers and community.
Cloudflare customers can now choose to reduce data transfer cost via the Microsoft Azure Routing Preference Program with just a few clicks.
I appreciate the clarity of this trick that Mikael Ainalem posted over on Reddit:
And maybe an optional follow-up if you're up for it.
