Cloudflare recognized as a 'Leader' in The Forrester Wave for DDoS Mitigation Solutions
Cloudflare is named a ‘Leader’ in Forrester Wave™ for DDoS Mitigation Solutions, Q1 2021
How to execute an object file: Part 1
Ever wondered if it is possible to execute an object file without linking? Or use any object file as a library? Follow along to learn how to decompose an object file and import code from it along the way.
GitHub Security Lab Capture the Flag: A call to hacktion
Save the date! March 17 to 21, take your chance with the GitHub CTF “A Call to Hacktion!” What is a CTF? In software security, a Capture the Flag (CTF)…
Fuzzing sockets: Apache HTTP, Part 1: Mutations
In this first episode, I’ll do a brief introduction on how Apache HTTP works, and I’ll give you some insights into custom mutators and how they can be applied to the HTTP protocol effectively.
4 Tips for Shipping Data Products Fast - Shopify
Shipping a new data-centric product is hard, and under tight time constraints it's even harder. Here are 4 tips that are proven to help you ship new products fast.
The State Of Mobile And Why Mobile Web Testing Matters — Smashing Magazine
With mobile traffic accounting for over 50% of web traffic these days, leaving your mobile performance unoptimized isn’t really an option. In this article, we’ll discuss the complexity and challenges of mobile, and how mobile testing tools can help us with just that.
The Teams Dashboard: Behind the Scenes
When we launched Cloudflare for Teams almost ten years later, the vision was very much the same — build a secure and powerful Zero Trust solution that is ridiculously easy to use.
How to Map Mouse Position in CSS
Let’s look at how to get the user’s mouse position and map it into CSS custom properties: --positionX and --positionY.
Your guide to DevOps automation and CI/CD at GitHub InFocus
Last week we kicked off GitHub InFocus, a global virtual series just for software teams. We discussed the importance of developer experience and innersource—and how key collaboration really is. Next…
The Netflix Cosmos Platform - Netflix TechBlog
Cosmos is a computing platform that combines the best aspects of microservices with asynchronous workflows and serverless functions. Its sweet spot is applications that involve resource-intensive…
State Of GDPR In 2021: Cookie Consent For Designers And Developers — Smashing Magazine
As digital practitioners, GDPR has impacted every facet of our professional and personal lives. Whether you’re addicted to Instagram, message your family on WhatsApp, buy products from Etsy or Google information, no one has escaped the rules that were introduced in 2018. In this article, Danny Bluestone will take a look at two developments that have impacted cookies, plus a third on the horizon.
Designing a Better Kubernetes Experience for Developers
TLDR; If you’re deploying a service with Kubernetes, you shouldn’t have to use all of your cluster management skills just to perform everyday developer tasks (like seeing which pods are experiencing errors or checking autoscaler limits). Backstage Kubernetes simplifies your deployment workflow by connecting to your existing Kubernetes implementation and aggregating the status of all your deploymen
Happy Birthday, Backstage: Spotify’s Biggest Open Source Project Grows Up Fast
TLDR: As Backstage turns one, we’re doubling down on our commitment to the open source project and the community we’re building it with.
Why You Should Pair with Non-Engineers
TL;DR Spotify encourages engineers to become and lean into technologies and skill sets outside of their core specialization. Being a T-shaped developer doesn’t always mean having to learn more code, additional languages, or frameworks. It can be about broadening your outlook on the product-creation process and outside of your discipline. Design Systems Engineering Manager at Spotify Tyce Clee talk
Spotify’s New Experimentation Coordination Strategy
At Spotify we run hundreds of experiments at any given time. Coordinating these experiments, i.e., making sure the right user is receiving the right “treatment” with a population of hundreds of millions of users, poses technical challenges. Adding to the complexity, some of these experiments must be coordinated in the sense that the same user cannot be in two experiments at the same time. These ar
2020 Unwrapped: The people behind the numbers
2020 Wrapped is a story of gratitude and resilience. And we’re grateful for the people and teams behind the curtain who built this product experience (??Give them a hand!).
David Riordan: Product Manager
My days begin with an early morning wake-up call from Zev – he comes through at around 5am and we get a couple of dedicated hours of playtime before the rest of the world gets up. It’s fun – this morning, we baked oatmeal cookies. Then once my wife and I are ready, we take the dog, throw Zev in the back carrier and walk all together through the park to his nanny-share. It’s a really lovely way to
Matt Clarke: Senior Backend Infrastructure Engineer
At the moment, I’m living with my wife and step daughter in London and working from home like most people. Which means I get up around 8am, drink lots of coffee (way too much!) and log onto my computer an hour later – ready to check my messages and start getting my brain into thinking mode.
CSS Border Font
Every letter in this "font" by Davor Suljic is a single div and drawn only with border. That means employing some trickery like border-radius with exotic
Next.js on Netlify
If you want to put Next.js on Netlify, here's a 5 minute tutorial¹. One of the many strengths of Next.js is that it can do server-side rendering (SSR) with a
Fresh Inspiration For March And A Smashing Winner (2021 Wallpapers Edition) — Smashing Magazine
Our wallpapers post this month is a special one: There’s not only a new collection of wallpapers created by creative folks from across the globe waiting for you, but we’ll also award a smashing prize to the best design.
A Saturday waste of CPU cycles: building time_t values
The Things I Add to Tailwind CSS Right Out of the Box
In every project where I use Tailwind CSS, I end up adding something to it. Some of these things I add in every single project. I’ll share these with you, but
Weekly Platform News: Reduced Motion, CORS, WhiteHouse.gov, popups, and 100vw
In this week's roundup, we highlight a proposal for a new <popup> element, check the use of prefers-reduced-motion on award-winning sites, learn how to
