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Career & Teams — What A Time To Be Smashing! — Smashing Magazine

What A Time To Be Smashing! — Smashing Magazine

With so much going on, it’s nice to have an overview of what’s new at Smashing — all in one place. Read on to find out what’s been keeping the team busy alongside some inspiring community resources that have made it to the top list of our newsletters!

ILIris LjesnjaninIris Ljesnjanin·November 20, 2020Career & Teams
Networking — Many services, one cloudflared

Many services, one cloudflared

Previously, if you wanted to proxy 100 services through Argo Tunnel, you needed 100 instances of cloudflared running on your server. Today, we’re thrilled to announce our most-requested feature: you can now expose unlimited services using one cloudflared.

ACAdam ChalmersAdam Chalmers·November 19, 2020Networking
Security — Securing the fight against COVID-19 through open source

Securing the fight against COVID-19 through open source

This blog describes a security vulnerability in the infrastructure that supports Germany’s COVID-19 contact tracing efforts. The mobile (Android/iOS) apps are not affected by the vulnerability and do not collect and/or transmit any personal data other than the device’s IP address. The infrastructure takes active measures to disassociate true positives from client IP addresses.

AMAlvaro MunozAlvaro Munoz·November 19, 2020Security
AI & ML — GitHub Archive Program: Making the archives beautiful

GitHub Archive Program: Making the archives beautiful

The GitHub Archive Program announces its latest milestone: storing collections of the most popular and depended upon open source repositories in beautiful art cases featuring 3D-printed and AI-generated artwork in significant libraries around the world.

JMJulia MetcalfJulia Metcalf·November 19, 2020AI & ML
Networking — The economic impact of subsea cables in Africa

The economic impact of subsea cables in Africa

High-quality internet connectivity gives people a voice, creates opportunities, and strengthens local and global economies. The need for widespread reliable internet connectivity and infrastructure is more apparent now than ever, as heavier reliance on remote work and online communication during the COVID-19 pandemic drives a dramatic surge in global internet usage. And yet, according to […] Read

MEMeta Engineering·November 19, 2020Networking
Distributed — Adopting Sorbet at Scale - Shopify

Adopting Sorbet at Scale - Shopify

Presenting how Shopify got from no Sorbet in our monolith to almost full coverage in the span of a few months. I’ll explain the challenges we faced, the tools we built to solve them.

SEShopify Engineering·November 19, 2020Distributed
SRE & Ops — Migrating Slack Airflow to Python 3 Without Disruption

Migrating Slack Airflow to Python 3 Without Disruption

Last year, we migrated Airflow from 1.8 to 1.10 at Slack (see here) and we did a “Big bang” upgrade because of the constraints we had. This year, due to Python 2 reaching end of life, we again had a major migration of Airflow from Python 2 to 3 and we wanted to put our…

ASAshwin Sai Shankar·November 19, 2020SRE & Ops
Frontend — A Thoughtful Way To Use React’s useRef() Hook — Smashing Magazine

A Thoughtful Way To Use React’s useRef() Hook — Smashing Magazine

In a React component, `useState` and `useReducer` can cause your component to re-render each time there is a call to the update functions. In this article, you will find out how to use the `useRef()` hook to keep track of variables without causing re-renders, and how to enforce the re-rendering of React Components.

AIAleem IsiakaAleem Isiaka·November 19, 2020Frontend
Security — Network-layer DDoS attack trends for Q3 2020

Network-layer DDoS attack trends for Q3 2020

In Q3 ‘20, Cloudflare observed a surge in DDoS attacks, with double the number of DDoS attacks and more attack vectors deployed than ever — with a notable surge in protocol-specific DDoS attacks such as mDNS, Memcached, and Jenkins amplification floods.

VOVivek, OmerVivek, Omer·November 18, 2020Security
Frontend — Thinking Outside the Box with CSS Grid

Thinking Outside the Box with CSS Grid

Great tutorial from Alex Trost (based on some demos, like this one, from Andy Barefoot) showcasing how, while CSS grid has straight grid lines across and

CCChris Coyier·November 18, 2020Frontend
Engineering — Upptime

Upptime

GitHub Actions are like free computers.

CCChris Coyier·November 18, 2020Engineering