Configure identity-based policies in Cloudflare Gateway
You can now build secure web gateway rules based on user and group identity.
Retrospective on Fela
I really appreciate a real-world walkthrough of a technology. Not only in what that technology does, but why it was chosen and how it worked for a team.
Get up to speed with partial clone and shallow clone
As your Git repositories grow, it becomes harder and harder for new developers to clone and start working on them. Git is designed as a distributed version control system. This means that…
GitHub joins amicus brief warning of systemic risk from private sector offensive actors
Today, GitHub joined an amicus brief in NSO v. WhatsApp, opposing the expansion of foreign sovereign immunity to private cyber-surveillance companies that act on behalf of foreign governments. GitHub joined…
Visualizing GitHub’s global community
This is the second post in a series about how we built our new homepage. How our globe is built How we collect and use the data behind the globe…
How we built the GitHub globe
GitHub is where the world builds software. More than 56 million developers around the world build and work together on GitHub. With our new homepage, we wanted to show how…
A smaller, faster video calling library for our apps
We are rolling out a new video calling library to all the relevant products across our apps and services, including Instagram, Messenger, Portal, Workplace chat, etc. To create a library generic enough to support all these different use cases, we needed to rewrite our existing library from scratch using the latest version of the open […]
Optimizing data warehouse storage - Netflix TechBlog
At Netflix, our current data warehouse contains hundreds of Petabytes of data stored in AWS S3, and each day we ingest and create additional Petabytes. At this scale, we can gain a significant amount…
Building A Stocks Price Notifier App Using React, Apollo GraphQL And Hasura — Smashing Magazine
In this article, Ankita Masand will show you how to build an event-based application and send a web-push notification when a particular event is triggered. She’ll set up database tables, events, and scheduled triggers on the Hasura GraphQL engine and wire up the GraphQL endpoint to the front-end application to record the stock price preference of the user.
Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For December 19th, 2020 - High Scalability -
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Computing Euclidean distance on 144 dimensions
Last year we deployed a CSAM image scanning tool. This is so cool! Image processing is always hard, and deploying a real image identification system at a Cloudflare scale is no small achievement! But we hit a problem - the matching algorithm was too slow for our needs.
A quirk in the SUNBURST DGA algorithm
On Wednesday, December 16, the RedDrip Team from QiAnXin Technology released their discoveries (tweet, github) regarding the random subdomains associated with the SUNBURST malware which was present in the SolarWinds Orion compromise. I
Optimizing Image Depth
Something I learned (or, I guess, re-learned) this year is how important it is to pay close attention to the bit depth of images. Way back in the day, we used
Change vs. Inertia
Recently, I've become more deeply aware of the inherent tension between change and inertia, as it applies to the evolution and use of web technologies. These
What Makes CSS Hard To Master
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How to make DevOps your competitive advantage
2020 has been a year of change, with shifts to the way organizations of every size connect, collaborate, and build together. From our 2020 State of the Octoverse report to…
Learn about ghapi, a new third-party Python client for the GitHub API
Learn about ghapi, a third-party Python library and CLI client for the GitHub API. It includes tab-completion, integrated documentation and automatic pagination of responses. ghapi automatically manages required headers, query strings, route parameters, post data, and much more.
Happy anniversary GitHub Security Lab!
Last year at GitHub Universe, we introduced the GitHub Security Lab, which is committed to contributing resources, tooling, bounties, and security research to secure the open source ecosystem. We know…
How Shopify Uses WebAssembly Outside of the Browser - Shopify
At Shopify, we’re keeping the flexibility of untrusted Partner code, but executing it on our own infrastructure with WebAssembly.
Counting Down To Bundles Of Smashing Joy And Workshops In 2021 — Smashing Magazine
We know how difficult it can sometimes be to stay on top of things. In this monthly edition, you can read more about what’s cookin’ at Smashing and explore some of the most popular resources featured in our newsletter in the past few weeks.
Three Improvements to Project Creation & Git Integration
We've improved the developer experience by introducing three updates that apply to all users on Hobby, Pro, and Enterprise plans.
Introducing Cloudflare Pages: the best way to build JAMstack websites
Across multiple cultures around the world, this time of year is a time of celebration and sharing of gifts with the people we care the most about.
I learned to love the Same-Origin Policy
I spent a good chunk of my work life this year trying (in collaboration with the amazing Noam Rosenthal) to standardize a new web platform feature: a way to