Shopify's Path to a Faster Trino Query Execution: Infrastructure - Shopify
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.
Making A Strong Case For Accessibility — Smashing Magazine
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.
Smart(er) Origin Service Level Monitoring
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.
Building a Command Line Tool with Nodejs and Fauna
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
Introducing Figma’s New York City hub
We have opened an office in New York City to better connect with Figmates and users
Write good examples by starting with real code
Write good examples by starting with real code
High Availability by Offloading Work Into the Background - Shopify
High availability and short response times are necessary, making background jobs an indispensable tool regardless of the application’s scale.
Tools And Practices To Speed Up The Vue.js Development Process — Smashing Magazine
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
Transform Rules:"Requests, Transform and Roll Out!"
Perform URL Normalization, URL Rewriting, or Header Modification without having to write a line of code!
A Look at Building with Astro
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
The Web’s Worst Default
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
How News UK developed a multi-brand design system
The team at News UK shares their experience creating a design system across print, online, radio, and TV
npm audit: Broken by Design
Found 99 vulnerabilities (84 moderately irrelevant, 15 highly irrelevant)
An Introduction To Figma Interactive Components — Smashing Magazine
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.
Welcoming Kathy Korevec to Vercel, our new Head of Product
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 use Microsoft Azure Data Transfer Routing Preference to enjoy lower data transfer costs
Cloudflare customers can now choose to reduce data transfer cost via the Microsoft Azure Routing Preference Program with just a few clicks.
Body Toggle
I appreciate the clarity of this trick that Mikael Ainalem posted over on Reddit:
I've got one question about Jetpack for you.
And maybe an optional follow-up if you're up for it.
The Dilemma of Naming Font Size Variables
Normally, a project will have a set of pre-determined font sizes, usually as variables named in such a way that seeks some semblance of order and consistency.
Simulating temporal tables with dblink and replication delay
How to simulate unsupported out of the box temporal tables in PostgreSQL using delayed streaming replication and dblink extension
How To Choose A Headless CMS — Smashing Magazine
There is an array of Headless CMSes out there. In this article, we delve into headless CMS features to satisfy your content editors, marketers and yourself as a developer. For the experience headless practitioner, this could be a checklist to see what’s new out there. For those starting out on their headless journey, this could be a guide on what to look for.
USENIX LISA2021 Computing Performance: On the Horizon
Strength in Diversity: APAC Heritage Month
In the United States, May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. This year, we wanted to celebrate this occasion in a more inclusive and comprehensive way, which is why we called our celebration APAC Heritage Month.
Using HSL Colors In CSS — Smashing Magazine
HSL colors are very powerful when we use them the right way. They can save us time and effort and even help us to explore options for how to apply color to design. In this article, Ahmad Shadeed explains what HSL is, how to use it, and shares some of the useful use-cases and examples that you can use right away in your current projects.
