Day 21: wrangling systemd & setting up git deploys to a VM
Day 21: wrangling systemd & setting up git deploys to a VM
How to Reliably Scale Your Data Platform for High Volumes - Shopify
In this post, we’ll outline the approach we took to reliably scale our data platform in preparation for Black Friday and Cyber Monday.
Building A Conversational N.L.P Enabled Chatbot Using Google’s Dialogflow — Smashing Magazine
The 2019 [Capgemini research institute](https://www.capgemini.com/research-institute/)’s report published after a research on the use of chat assistants showed a drastic 76% increase in customer satisfaction from organizations where chat assistants where built and incorporated into their services. But how does [Dialogflow](https://cloud.google.com/dialogflow/docs), a product from Google’s ecosyste
Introducing the Cloudflare Data Localization Suite
The Data Localization Suite helps businesses get the performance and security benefits of Cloudflare’s global network while making it easy to set rules and controls at the edge about where their data is stored and protected.
Web Performance Calendar
The Web Performance Calendar just started up again this year. The first two posts so far are about, well, performance! First up, Rick Viscomi writes about the
Now you C me, now you don’t, part two: exploiting the in-between
Aimed at developers, in this series we introduce and explore the memory unsafe attack surface of interpreted languages.
Release Radar
We’re here to bring you the latest and greatest releases for December 2020. These are exciting new releases from some of the coolest projects around. There’s everything from world-changing tech…
Toward a Better Quality Metric for the Video Community
Over the past few years, we have been striving to make VMAF a more usable tool not just for Netflix, but for the video community at large. This tech blog highlights our recent progress toward this…
The State of Ruby Static Typing at Shopify - Shopify
Shopify changes a lot. We merge around 400 commits to the main branch daily and deploy a new version of our core monolith 40 times a day. The Monolith is also big: 37,000 Ruby files, 622,000 methods, more than 2,000,000 calls. At this scale with a dynamic language, even with the most rigorous review process and over 150,000 automated tests, it’s a challenge to ensure everything works properly. Dev
Organizing 2000 Developers for BFCM in a Remote World - Shopify
With BFCM on the horizon, there is a lot of preparation that Shopify needs to do on our platform. This effort needs a key driver to set expectations for many teams and hold them accountable to complete the work.
How To Use MDX Stored In Sanity In A Next.js Website — Smashing Magazine
MDX gives you the minimalist ergonomics of Markdown with the flexibility of custom components. By combining MDX with Sanity and Next, you can build robust, team-friendly content editing experiences while keeping the pleasant and efficient developer experience of building Jamstack sites with React.
We Need You In The Smashing Family — Smashing Magazine
Do you like building relationships and exploring creative options? At Smashing, we are looking for a team member who’ll take good care of advertising and sponsorships across the range of everything we do at Smashing — from the magazine to our conferences. Interested? We’d love you to join us.
Welcome to Privacy & Compliance Week: Reflecting Values at Cloudflare’s Core
Over the course of the week, we'll be announcing ways that our customers can use our service in order to ensure they are in compliance with an increasingly complicated set of rules and laws around the world.
retvals, terrible teaching, and admitting we have a problem
Day 19: Clustering faces (poorly) using an autoencoder
Day 19: Clustering faces (poorly) using an autoencoder
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