European payment methods available worldwide in minutes, not months
Stripe businesses around the world can accept payments from more European buyers in minutes.
Road to gRPC
Cloudflare launched support for gRPC during our 2020 Birthday Week. In this post, we’ll do a deep-dive into the technical details of how we implemented support.
WordPress and Jamstack
I recently moderated a panel at Netlify's virtual Jamstack Conf that included Netlify CEO Matt Biilman and Automattic founder Matt Mullenweg. The whole thing
ninja: a simple way to do builds
ninja: a simple way to do builds
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Introducing Framer Motion — Smashing Magazine
Animations, when done right, are powerful. However, creating eye-catching animations with CSS can be tricky. In comes Framer Motion. With Framer Motion, you don’t need to be a CSS expert to make beautiful animations. Framer Motion provides us with production-ready animations and a low-level API we can interact with to integrate these animations into our applications.
How To Overcome Data Onboarding Challenges For Software Products — Smashing Magazine
Data onboarding with a custom-built solution can be a difficult and error-prone process. Now imagine what happens when you increase the complexity, allowing for different file types, more users, varying sources and a greater need for security and compliance. It shouldn’t be up to your software end users to work out the kinks of your data onboarding, nor should your team have to do it. In this post
A Last Call for QUIC, a giant leap for the Internet
QUIC and HTTP/3 are open standards that have been under development in the IETF for almost exactly 4 years. On October 21, 2020, following two rounds of Working Group Last Call, draft 32 of the family of documents that describe QUIC and HTTP/3 were put into IETF Last Call.
A Virtual Product Management Internship Experience
In July 2020, I joined Cloudflare as a Product Management Intern on the DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) team to enhance the benefits that Network Analytics brings to our customers. This is my experience.
DevOps best practices Q&A: Automated deployments at GitHub
How GitHub measures and improves reliability, security, and developer happiness with automated deployments.
Vote, and contribute to democracy through open source
November 3 is election day in the U.S. Early voting is available in most states. If you haven’t yet, make a plan to vote. If you’re an employer in the…
Introducing the npm public roadmap and a new feedback process
npm is the world’s largest package registry, powering the world’s largest development community—JavaScript. Without them, npm would not be where it is today, and we know that maintaining open lines…
How we scale Live streaming for millions of viewers simultaneously
As Facebook Live and Facebook Watch have grown, the content shared there has expanded to include professionally produced, broadcast-quality content, like shows and live event coverage. This type of professional broadcasting from providers like La Liga, CONMEBOL, and UEFA is a very different challenge from user generated content (UGC) and viewers’ expectations are much higher. […]
PPL Bench: Creating a standard for benchmarking probabilistic programming languages
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Building Mental Models of Ideas That Don’t Change - Shopify
Developers constantly face information overload. There's always a new programming language, methodology, framework, or platform. How do you make sense of it all? You use mental models to guide you.
Getting Started With Next.js — Smashing Magazine
Next.js is a React framework that is bound to ease your life as a React developer by abstracting away the common and redundant tasks (such as routing) into relatively simpler and powerful APIs. That way, you can focus on writing your apps instead of reinventing the wheel. This tutorial will be beneficial to developers who are looking to get started with Next.js or have already begun but need to fi
The Cloudflare Radar 2020 Elections Dashboard
We thought it was important to provide a view into how overall traffic to campaign and elections sites is trending as well as a view into the cyberattacks we're observing.
Hacktoberfest e GitHub ¡Presente!: celebrando comunidades open source em outubro
Outubro é um mês especial no mundo do desenvolvimento de software. Há 7 anos a Hacktoberfest — um festival que celebra a comunidade open source — incentiva pessoas desenvolvedoras a…
Diversity, inclusion, and belonging at GitHub in 2020
Like our global community, we’ve had a year of challenges and extremes at GitHub, and I’m grateful everyday for our culture as our foundation of strength and resilience. We started…
Hands-Free Coding
Earlier this year, I lost the ability to use a keyboard and mouse for extended periods. Fortunately, this wasn't as catastrophic as it sounds! This article chronicles my experience using adaptive tools like dictation and eye-tracking as my primary mechanisms for writing code.
How Facebook is bringing QUIC to billions
We are replacing the de facto protocol the internet has used for decades with QUIC, the latest and most radical step we’ve taken to optimize our network protocols to create a better experience for people on our services. Today, more than 75 percent of our internet traffic uses QUIC and HTTP/3 (we refer to QUIC […]
Smashing Giveaway: Join Smashing Newsletter and Win Smashing Prizes — Smashing Magazine
We’re running a lil’ giveaway among our dear Smashing newsletter subscribers, and if you subscribe, you join in the raffle, too! With online workshop tickets, books and an entire collection of 100 Smashing cats in SVG format! We’ll announce the winners in the upcoming issue on Oct. 27, 2020. Meow, join in and good luck!
Speed Up Your Workflow With Figma Plugins — Smashing Magazine
There are hundreds of Figma plugins available as of today, yet the Figma plugin search functionality is pretty basic and at times it can be very difficult to find the right plugin for a certain task. Today, Abel Hancock will take you into an in-depth look at several plugins that can speed up your design workflow. **Note**: *This article is aimed at user interface designers who use Figma on a daily
Bot Attack trends for Jan-Jul 2020
Automated traffic makes up almost 40% of total Internet traffic. Let’s take a look at how bots behaved over 2020 so far.
