How I write useful programming comics
How I write useful programming comics
Day 20: trying to figure out how Google Cloud IAM works
Day 20: trying to figure out how Google Cloud IAM works
An introduction to three-phase power and PDUs
This blog is a quick Electrical Engineering 101 session going over specifically how 3-phase PDUs work, along with some good practices on how we use them
Diversity and The Digital Divide: Thoughts From Tech Leaders
Leaders from across the tech industry and beyond recently joined us for Cloudflare’s Birthday Week, helping us celebrate Cloudflare’s 10th birthday. Many of them touched on the importance of diversity and making the Internet accessible to everyone.
Your DevOps guide to GitHub Universe
GitHub Universe is almost here. For more on what to expect from this year’s stream, we sat down with virtual host, Brian Douglas, for a quick Q&A on GitHub Actions,…
A World Rendered Beautifully: The Making of the BFCM 3D Data Visualization - Shopify
By Mikko Haapoja and Stephan Leroux 2020 Black Friday Cyber Monday (BFCM) is over, and another BFCM Globe has shipped. We’re extremely proud of the globe, it focused on realism, performance, and the impact our merchants have on the world. The Black Friday Cyber Monday Live Map We knew we had a tall task in front of us this year, building something that could represent orders from our one million m
Join Us For Smashing Meets Happy Holidays — Smashing Magazine
Meet our new friendly online meet-up, Smashing Meets, with three wonderful speakers, the entire Smashing family and plenty of truly smashing cats. As always, free for Smashing Members.
How To Migrate From WordPress To The Eleventy Static Site Generator — Smashing Magazine
If you’re a designer or developer with intermediate knowledge of HTML and JavaScript, and know your way around GitHub and the command line, this tutorial is for you. Today, Scott Dawson is going to walk step-by-step through converting a WordPress site into a static site generated from Markdown.
Data Mesh Principles and Logical Architecture
Our aspiration to augment and improve every aspect of business and life with data, demands a paradigm shift in how we manage data at scale. While the technology advances of the past decade have addressed the scale of volume of data and data processing compute, they have failed to address scale in other dimensions: changes in the data landscape, proliferation of sources of data, diversity of data u
Applying DevSecOps to your software supply chain
To best apply DevSecOps principles to improve the security of your supply chain, you should ask your developers to declare your dependencies in code; and in turn provide your developers with maintained ‘golden’ artifacts and automated downstream actions so they can focus on code.
The evolving role of operations in DevOps
GitHub’s team delves into answering the question “what are operations roles in the development and operations (DevOps) environments”. From automating the role of QA in DevOps and more for smaller, faster delivery cycles.
Improving the GHES release process: release candidates
In our ongoing “Building GitHub” series, we talk about some of the projects we’re working on to improve how efficiently we build GitHub, as well as increase GitHub’s availability, stability,…
Join our panel with WHO at GitHub Universe 2020!
The year 2020 has upended nearly every aspect of society. In a panel for GitHub Satellite back in May, we briefly covered some of the ways in which our social…
Day 18: an answer to an autoencoder question
Day 18: an answer to an autoencoder question
SuperCell: Reaching new heights for wider connectivity
As part of our efforts to help expand connectivity around the world, Facebook Connectivity has been prototyping SuperCell, a wide-area coverage solution for increasing mobile connectivity in rural communities. Now, after working with telecom industry partners to conduct several trials and data analyses, we’re ready to share what we’ve learned. Rather than produce this solution […]
Capacity Planning at Scale - Shopify
We cover our approaches to capacity planning, and how we rolled it out across the org and to dozens of teams. We’ll also share how we validated our capacity plans with scalability tests to make sure they work.
CommonMark: A Formal Specification For Markdown — Smashing Magazine
Markdown is a powerful markup language that allows editing and formatting in plain text format that can then be parsed and rendered as HTML. It has a declarative syntax that is both powerful and easy to learn for technical and non-technical folks. However, due to the consequential ambiguities in its original specification, there have been a number of distinct [flavors (or custom versions)](https:/
GitHub Availability Report: November 2020
Introduction In November, we experienced two incidents resulting in significant impact and degraded state of availability for issues, pull requests, and GitHub Actions services. November 2 12:00 UTC (lasting 32…
The State of the Octoverse 2020
Change is inevitable, and this year, it has been inescapable. We’ve had to find new ways to relate, learn, and balance both work and life at home. One thing has…
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Pummelling the Platform–Performance Testing Shopify - Shopify
Insight into the tools Shopify uses to raise confidence in our ability to serve large sales events, as well as the experimentation and regression framework built to ensure that we’re getting better, week-over-week, at handling load.
Designing An Attractive And Usable Data Importer For Your App — Smashing Magazine
Even though the development of a data importer is a complex matter, you don’t want your users’ experience with it to be just as complex or complicated. The second they experience any friction or fault in data onboarding, the chances of them bailing from the software will skyrocket. So, in this post, we’re going to focus on how best to present your data importer to users.
Painting With the Web
Matthias Ott, comparing how painter Gerhard Richter paints (do stuff, step back, take a look) to what can be the website building process and what can wreck it:
Under-Engineered Responsive Tables
I first blogged about responsive data tables in 2011. When responsive web design was first becoming a thing, there were little hurdles like data tables that