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Frontend — Building a Magical 3D Button

Building a Magical 3D Button

Every action we take on the web starts with a button click, and yet most buttons are ho-hum and uninspired. In this tutorial, we'll build an animated 3D button with HTML and CSS that sparks joy.

JWJosh W. Comeau·March 30, 2021Frontend
Databases — Choosing A New Serverless Database Technology At An Agency (Case Study) — Smashing Magazine

Choosing A New Serverless Database Technology At An Agency (Case Study) — Smashing Magazine

Choosing to use a new technology can often bring much desired productivity, security, and efficiency to a project. It is also fraught with risk and uncertainty. How and when to adopt a new technology for client projects is at the heart of leading a great agency. In this article, Michael Rispoli explains how he evaluated the decision of whether or not to adopt a serverless database for client proje

MRMichael RispoliMichael Rispoli·March 30, 2021Databases
Frontend — SVG Generators — Smashing Magazine

SVG Generators — Smashing Magazine

In a new series of posts, we highlight some of the useful tools and techniques for developers and designers. Last weeks, we’ve covered CSS auditing tools, CSS generators and accessible front-end components. This time around, Iris Lješnjanin will take a look at SVG generators — for everything from shapes and backgrounds to SVG path visualizers and SVG → JSX generators.

ILIris LjesnjaninIris Ljesnjanin·March 29, 2021Frontend
Networking — Advancing connectivity between the Asia-Pacific region and North America

Advancing connectivity between the Asia-Pacific region and North America

We are announcing two vital new subsea cables to connect Singapore, Indonesia, and North America. These will be the first transpacific cables through a new diverse route crossing the Java Sea and will increase overall transpacific capacity by 70 percent. We are committed to bringing more people online to a faster internet. As part of […]

MEMeta Engineering·March 28, 2021Networking
Career & Teams — Introducing: Advanced Certificate Manager

Introducing: Advanced Certificate Manager

Today, we are excited to announce that dedicated certs are getting an upgrade… and a new name… introducing Advanced Certificate Manager! Advanced Certificate Manager is a flexible and customizable way to manage your certificates on Cloudflare.

DDinaDina·March 27, 2021Career & Teams
Security — Heartbleed Revisited

Heartbleed Revisited

TLS key compromise is a risk for all web services. Taking lessons from Heartbleed, Cloudflare offers the latest features that make key compromise less of a risk.

NSNick SullivanNick Sullivan·March 27, 2021Security
Engineering — Introducing Super Bot Fight Mode

Introducing Super Bot Fight Mode

Beginning immediately, any Cloudflare user with a Pro or Business site can take new action against bots. We’ve added advanced features in the dashboard and some exciting updates to analytics.

BBensolBensol·March 26, 2021Engineering
Engineering — Mitigating Bot Attacks against Cloudflare

Mitigating Bot Attacks against Cloudflare

The word “bots” on the Internet is a fairly loaded one. My earliest ‘bot’ experience was on IRC, where bots were quite helpful in making sure your favorite channel didn’t get taken over by malicious users and allowed for fun games of trivia.

SSergiSergi·March 26, 2021Engineering
Engineering — Announcing API Abuse Detection

Announcing API Abuse Detection

Today, we are announcing early access to API Abuse Detection. This technology will identify, secure, and protect API endpoints with unsupervised learning.

BTBensol, Thomas VissersBensol, Thomas Vissers·March 26, 2021Engineering
Design & UX — Growing UX Maturity: Knowledge Sharing And Mentorship (Part 2) — Smashing Magazine

Growing UX Maturity: Knowledge Sharing And Mentorship (Part 2) — Smashing Magazine

UX practitioners can play an important role in growing the UX maturity of the organizations and products they work with. This article, the second in a three-part series, presents two additional tactics that can be helpful for those working in organizations that have started engaging in UX, but are still at the lower to middle stages of maturity: knowledge sharing and mentorship. You can use these

VVictoryoccoVictoryocco·March 26, 2021Design & UX
Performance — How To Boost Media Performance On A Budget — Smashing Magazine

How To Boost Media Performance On A Budget — Smashing Magazine

How do we get media performance right while staying within performance budgets? In this article, Akshay Ranganath will take a look at the recent stats and data around performance budgets, video playback performance issues and some techniques and tools to address these issues. Having a performance budget as a standalone metric might not be of much help. That’s why we must correlate performance to o

ARAkshay RanganathAkshay Ranganath·March 25, 2021Performance