A Product Story: The Lessons of Backstage and Spotify’s Autonomous Culture
TLDR; In episode 08 of our podcast series “”, we share stories and lessons from building and open sourcing , our homegrown developer portal. Hear why a developer-friendly, market-based platform like Backstage could only have been developed at Spotify (where autonomy is prized, not top-down mandates) and why that ends up making Backstage such a flexible fit for other companies, too. and get all our
Spotify Wins CNCF’s Top End User Award and Toots Own Horn About It
Last week, Spotify won an award — and we’re not playing it cool. We . We bragged . Our internal Slack is alive with emoji and exclamation points. We’re really very proud of this one.
Achieving Team Purpose and Pride with Scrum
Team purpose and pride — my team hit those high marks, but it was a long journey to get there from where we started.
Safari 14.1 Adds Support for Flexbox Gaps
Yay, it's here! Safari 14.1 reportedly adds support for the gap property in flexbox layouts. We've had grid-gap support for some time, but true to its name,
Web Languages as Compile Targets
Jim Nielsen quoting Eric Bailey:
Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For April 30th, 2021 - High Scalability -
Hey, HighScalability is back! This channel is the perfect blend of programming, hardware, engineering, and crazy. After watching you’ll feel inadequate, but in an entertained sort of way. Love this Stuff? I need your support on Patreon to keep this stuff going. Do employees at your company need to know about the cloud? My book will teach them all they need to know. Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10. O
The chilling effect versus attempts to fix things
May Is In The Air (2021 Wallpapers Edition) — Smashing Magazine
Do you need a little inspiration boost? Well, then our new collection of wallpapers is for you. Designed with love by the community for the community, the wallpapers are available with and without a calendar for May 2021.
How to Monitor Core Web Vitals and Take Action with Raygun
Raygun is an error and performance monitoring software for websites and mobile apps. In the case of websites, you install their JavaScript snippet onto your
List Markers and String Styles
Lists—we’ve all worked with them in one form or another. I’m talking about HTML’s <ol> and <ul>. Much of the time, because we desire styling
TLS: Demystifying communication encryption in PostgreSQL
TLS is a technology widely used in combination with PostgreSQL to encrypt client / server connections. This blogpost explains how TLS works.
Goodbye Dependabot Preview, hello Dependabot!
Dependabot Preview has helped more than 30,000 organizations keep their packages updated with more than seven million pull requests merged since it launched. As a result of that success, the…
A call for feedback on our policies around exploits and malware
April 30, 2021 update: Thank you to everyone who’s weighed in on the discussion so far. I’ve commented in the pull request to clarify a few points based on initial…
Scaling monorepo maintenance
At GitHub, we serve some of the largest Git repositories on the planet. We also serve some of the fastest-growing repositories. Each day, the largest repositories we host become even…
A brief history of Rust at Facebook
Facebook is embracing Rust, one of the most loved and fastest-growing programming languages available today. In addition to bringing new talent to its Rust team, Facebook has announced that it is officially joining the nonprofit Rust Foundation. Alongside fellow members including Mozilla (the creators of Rust), AWS, Microsoft, and Google, Facebook will be working to […]
The Humble Element And Core Web Vitals — Smashing Magazine
Images have also been a key part of the web. They communicate ideas instantly, but they are also a lot heavier than text to load. This means that it’s essential to get loading and displaying them right, if you want to give your users a fantastic first impression. An excerpt from Addy Osmani
GitHub Desktop supports hiding whitespace, expanding diffs, and creating repository aliases
GitHub Desktop 2.8 now includes several new features to make it easier to work with diffs and easier for people who have multiple copies of the same repository. Expand diffs…
How we use GitHub Actions to manage GitHub Docs
👋 Hello from the GitHub Docs team! We build everything you see at docs.github.com. Over the past year, we’ve written a bunch of GitHub Actions workflows to do some fun…
A Five-Step Guide for Conducting Exploratory Data Analysis - Shopify
Have you ever been handed a dataset and then been asked to describe it? When I was first starting out in data science, this question confused me. My first thought was “What do you mean?” followed by “Can you be more specific?” The reality is that exploratory data analysis (EDA) is a critical tool in every data scientist’s kit, and the results are invaluable for answering important business questio
Meet Image Optimization, A New Smashing Book By Addy Osmani — Smashing Magazine
The cat is out! For the last year, we’ve been working with Addy Osmani on a new Smashing Book all around image optimization. And now it’s here. Meet “Image Optimization”, our practical modern guide to delivering high-quality images on the web with the best performance. Image optimization, loading behavior and rendering in the browser require understanding of image formats and image compression tec
SSHing to my Raspberry Pi 400 from a browser, with Cloudflare Tunnel and Auditable Terminal
This is how I set up a Pi 400 on my home network, used Cloudflare Tunnel to connect it to the Cloudflare network, used Auditable Terminal to connect to the Pi 400 via Cloudflare and the tunnel using nothing more than a browser.
PostgreSQL: Understanding deadlocks
"ERROR: deadlock detected" - message - what should I do? This article explains what this really means and how deadlocks can be prevented.
Introducing branching: space to iterate and explore freely
Announcing branching in beta