GitHub Availability Report: October 2020
In October, we experienced one incident resulting in significant impact and degraded state of availability for multiple services.
Internationalization And Localization For Static Sites — Smashing Magazine
Internationalization and localization is more than just writing your content in multiple languages. You need a strategy to determine what localization to send, and code to do it. You need to be able to support not just different languages, but different regions with the same language. Your UI needs to be responsive, not just to screen size, but to different languages and writing modes. Your conten
Vercel Analytics for Gatsby
Starting today, Vercel Analytics is available for Gatsby projects – without any configuration.
Looking Ahead: Five Opportunities on The Horizon According to Tech Leaders
Dozens of top leaders and thinkers from the tech industry and beyond recently joined us for a series of fireside chats commemorating Cloudflare’s 10th birthday. Here are some of the highlights.
What Can Web Designers Do With Their Unused Designs? — Smashing Magazine
Do you have a hard time throwing away mockups, logos and other content you’ve created for clients? The good news is that you don’t have to see rejected or unused designs as a sign of failure or waste. You can actually repurpose them and give them new life on other projects, for other customers, and even within your own business. I’ll explain four ways to do this in this post.
Smashing Podcast Episode 28 With David Darnes: What Is Eleventy? — Smashing Magazine
In this episode of The Smashing Podcast, we’re talking about Eleventy. What is it and how does it fit into your Jamstack workflow? I spoke to David Darnes to find out.
Commit your vote on election day!
Closing that priority issue you’re working on can wait—put down your keyboard and vote! Millions of you already have, and your vote in national and local elections may just impact…
ShiftLeft on Refactoring a Live SaaS Environment - High Scalability -
This is guest a post by Preetam Jinka, Senior Infrastructure Engineer at ShiftLeft. Originally published here. ShiftLeft NextGen Static Analysis (NG SAST) is a software-as-a-service static analysis solution that allows developers to scan every pull request for security issues. Earlier this year we released Secrets, Security Insights, and a v4 API. Secrets and Security Insights are two new types of
Chasing the Pixel-Perfect Dream
Is it possible to create an implementation of a design that matches to-the-pixel? Well, not really, but that shouldn't discourage us! In this article, I'll show how I became designers' best friend by leveraging a series of tricks to get my implementation looking near-pixel-perfect.
Keeping Netflix Reliable Using Prioritized Load Shedding
Getting stuck in traffic is one of the most frustrating experiences for drivers around the world. Everyone slows to a crawl, sometimes for a minor issue or sometimes for no reason at all. As…
Native CSS Masonry Layout In CSS Grid — Smashing Magazine
There is now a specification for native CSS masonry layout, as part of the Grid Layout spec. In this article, Rachel Andrew will explain the draft spec, with examples that you can try out in Firefox Nightly. While this is a feature you won’t be able to use in production right now, your feedback would be valuable to help make sure it serves the requirements that you have for this kind of layout. So
GitHub Game Off 2020 theme announcement
The theme for this year’s Game Off is MOONSHOT. moonshot – noun an extremely ambitious and innovative project the act of launching a spacecraft to the moon a hit or…
Spotify’s New Experimentation Platform (Part 2)
So you’ve read of our two-part series about the new Experimentation Platform we’ve built at Spotify, and now know why we decided to invest in a new platform. In Part II, you’ll get a more detailed look at how we assigned users to experiments, how we analyze results and ensure test integrity.
It’s All Just Wiggly Air: Building Infrastructure to Support Audio Research
TL;DR — our framework for building smarter data pipelines for audio and other media processing. Based on Python and Apache Beam, helps our teams process Spotify’s massive catalog of music and podcasts, faster and more efficiently. We think Klio’s — and its ability to let anyone leverage modern cloud infrastructure and tooling — has the potential to unlock new possibilities in media and ML research
The Serverlist: Serverless Wasm AI, Building Automatic Platform Optimizations, and more!
Check out our twenty-first edition of The Serverlist below. Get the latest scoop on the serverless space, get your hands dirty with new developer tutorials, engage in conversations with other serverless developers, and find upcoming meetups and conferences to attend.
Be Kind, Be Curious (November 2020 Wallpapers Edition) — Smashing Magazine
Give your desktop a makeover with this new collection of wallpapers. Designed by the community for the community, the wallpapers come in versions with and without a calendar for November 2020. Since so many beautiful and inspiring designs have seen the light of day as a part of this ongoing series, we browsed through our archives on the look for November goodies from the past. You’ll find a select
Unwrap the SERVFAIL
We recently released a new version of Cloudflare Resolver, which adds a piece of information called “Extended DNS Errors” (EDE) along with the response code under certain circumstances. This will be helpful in tracing DNS resolution errors and figure out what went wrong behind the scenes.
compute cuter
Get that desk more cuter, fam. Amy (@sailorhg) has this perfectly cute minisite with assorted desktop backgrounds, fonts, editor themes, keyboard stuff, and
Little Things on My Personal Site
I updated my personal website the other day. Always a fun project since it's one of the few where it's 100% just me. It's my own personal playground with no
13 ghoulish games to play, hack and slash this weekend 👻
WARNING: This post contains zombies, werewolves, extra dimensional beings, mummies, and more! Proceed at your own risk. Trick or treat yourself to some fangtastic Halloween-themed games this weekend. These were…
The Principles Of Visual Communication — Smashing Magazine
We’re taught to communicate with words. We write essays, prepare speeches, and take written notes. But words aren’t always the best option for conveying information and ideas. Sometimes the best way to tell stories is through thoughtfully crafted visuals, not long paragraphs of text. Visual storytelling is the process of conveying ideas using things you can see. In this article, Elizabeth Lin will
Introducing Bot Analytics
Nearly 40% of Internet traffic is automated. Today, Cloudflare is taking its Bot Management product to new heights with the release of Bot Analytics.
PostgreSQL clustering: vip-manager
vip-manager is a simple to use tool to handle service IPs in a PostgreSQL Patroni cluster | PostgreSQL High Availability Cluster
GitHub Action Hero: Eyal Posener and “Go Action”
GitHub Actions gives you the power to automate your workflow. Connect with the tools you know and love. Have more freedom to innovate and be creative. Deploy to any cloud,…
