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We have been dealing with conntrack, the connection tracking layer in the Linux kernel, for years. And yet, despite the collected know-how, questions about its inner workings occasionally come up. When they do, it is hard to resist the temptation to go digging for answers.
In this week's news, Chrome tackles focus rings, we learn how to get "donut" scope, Global Privacy Control gets big-name adoption, it's time to ditch pixels
There’s a new version of the search endpoint available in the Dropbox API. The new version is faster, supports more file types, and has many useful features.
GitHub Actions is a powerful platform that empowers your team to go from code to cloud, all from the comfort of your repositories. In this post, I’ll walk through a…
There are plenty of ways to do it, here's how I recommend typing React Components
Best practices and templates from Figmates across teams
Introduction In February, we experienced no incidents resulting in service downtime to our core services. This month’s GitHub Availability Report will provide initial details around an incident from March 1…
In January 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a state of emergency. Even before the novel coronavirus had an official name, it set off global travel restrictions, widespread closures,…
I know so many super-talented developers who share the same achilles heel: CSS. Instead of trying to “outrun” CSS, this article explores why leaning in and going deeper can be a tremendous boon for your development life and your career.
What the research is: Jump-Start is a new approach for improving the performance of virtual machines at scale. Virtual machines are a modern and popular design to implement programming languages used to build applications in general, including large-scale websites like Facebook and Instagram. However, virtual machines incur well-known performance overhead in terms of the amount […]
In this article, we’ll look at how to create an outside focus and click handler with React. You’ll learn how to recreate an open-source React component (react-foco) from scratch in doing so. To get the most out of this article, you’ll need a basic understanding of JavaScript classes, DOM event delegation and React. By the end of the article, you’ll know how you can use JavaScript class instance pr
Cloudflare is named a ‘Leader’ in Forrester Wave™ for DDoS Mitigation Solutions, Q1 2021
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.
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)…
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.
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.
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.
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.
Let’s look at how to get the user’s mouse position and map it into CSS custom properties: --positionX and --positionY.
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…
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…
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.
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
