Revamping the Android testing pipeline at Dropbox
Adding it all up: The math behind designing your career
How to think about the 90,000 hours you spend at work
The ReadME Project shares innovative paths to DevOps success
GitHub has the privilege of partnering with thousands of organizations to improve their DevOps practices, from established enterprises transforming the way they work to born-in-the-cloud businesses. We often connect developers,…
Day 17: trying to wrap my head around autoencoders
Day 17: trying to wrap my head around autoencoders
useEffect vs useLayoutEffect
The simple rules for when to use each.
Vouching for Docker Images - Shopify
If you were using computers in the ‘90s and the early 2000s, you probably had the experience of installing a piece of software you downloaded from the internet, only to discover that someone put some nasty into it, and now you’re dragging your computer to IT to beg them to save your data. To remedy this, software developers started “signing” their software in a way that proved both who they were a
Scaling Datastores at Slack with Vitess
From the very beginning of Slack, MySQL was used as the storage engine for all our data. Slack operated MySQL servers in an active-active configuration. This is the story of how we changed our data storage architecture from the active-active clusters over to Vitess — a horizontal scaling system for MySQL. Vitess is the present…
Smashing Podcast Episode 30 With Chris Murphy: What Is Product Design? — Smashing Magazine
In this episode, we’re talking about Product Design. What does it mean to be a product owner, and how can you learn the skills required? Drew McLellan talks to expert Chris Murphy to find out.
How We Built It: Spotify Lite, One Year Later
What if, for some users, the very best Spotify is a little less Spotify? Spotify Lite started as an experiment that had to be proven, both from a technical and a product-market fit perspective. In 2017, we found that a significant portion of registrations in some of our fastest-growing markets were happening on Android devices much older than what we were used to seeing in North American and Europ
Improving the Resiliency of Our Infrastructure DNS Zone
We've improved the resiliency and management of our infrastructure DNS zone. In this post, we guide you through some of the "whats", "whys" and "hows" we encountered along the way.
Native CSS Masonry Layout In CSS Grid
Rachel Andrew introducing the fact that masonry layout is going to be a thing in native CSS via CSS grid layout. The thing with masonry is that we can already
Lots of Ways to Use Math.random() in JavaScript
Math.random() is an API in JavaScript. It is a function that gives you a random number. The number returned will be between 0 (inclusive, as in, it’s possible
An attempt at implementing char-rnn with PyTorch
An attempt at implementing char-rnn with PyTorch
Weaving Web Accessibility With Usability — Smashing Magazine
You can provide access to people with visual impairments without involving them in the product development lifecycle, by formally adopting web accessibility standards... but does that mean the end product is usable? In this article, Uri Paz explains how a site complying with accessibility guidelines may still present usability issues when testing with real users. Find out how weaving accessibility
Dreaming Of A Magical December (2020 Wallpapers Edition) — Smashing Magazine
Let’s welcome December with some new wallpapers! Designed by artists and designers from across the globe, they are available with and without a calendar for the month. All images can be clicked on and lead to the preview of the wallpaper. We respect and carefully consider the ideas and motivation behind each and every artist’s work. This is why we give all artists the full freedom to explore their
A Thanksgiving 2020 Reading List
If you want to relax in an active and learning way this Thanksgiving weekend, here are some of the topics we’ve covered on the Cloudflare blog this past week that you may find interesting.
A Byzantine failure in the real world
At Cloudflare, we are always on the lookout for Single Points of Failure. In this post, we explore the role a failure mode known as a Byzantine fault played in a a real-world incident.
ASICs at the Edge
At Cloudflare, we pride ourselves in our global network that spans more than 200 cities in over 100 countries. To accelerate all that traffic through our network, there are multiple technologies at play. So let’s have a look at one of the cornerstones that makes all of this work.
A Complete State Machine Made With HTML Checkboxes and CSS
State machines are typically expressed on the web in JavaScript and often through the popular XState library. But the concept of a state machine is adaptable
Reactive Variables In GraphQL Apollo Client — Smashing Magazine
Reactive variables work with GraphQL Apollo and offer you the same functionality with Redux or Context API without the complexity or extra layers that come with these other tools. A reactive variable in GraphQL Apollo is easy to use and doesn’t have as much setup process compared to Redux. In this article, Daniel Don will look at how to set up reactive variables, how the GraphQL cache polices come
Building Black Friday e-commerce experiences with JAMstack and Cloudflare Workers
Cloudflare Workers continues to excel as a JAMstack deployment platform, and be used to power e-commerce experiences, integrating with familiar tools like Stripe, Nuxt.js, and Sanity.io.
Day 13: BPTT, and debugging why a model isn't training is hard
Day 13: BPTT, and debugging why a model isn't training is hard
