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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.
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.
How GitHub measures and improves reliability, security, and developer happiness with automated deployments.
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…
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…
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. […]
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.
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
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.
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…
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…
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.
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 […]
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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
Automated traffic makes up almost 40% of total Internet traffic. Let’s take a look at how bots behaved over 2020 so far.
Failure for any organization to properly register their domains poses several key risks. For example, anyone who might register an election-sensitive domain would be able to assume the identity of elections officials and send phishing emails.
A little while back we shared the news that WooCommerce shipped a beta payments feature as part of its 4.0 release. It's a free plugin with no monthly costs
A look at using HTML preprocessors to generate HTML, particularly deeply nested HTML, which is useful for a variety of interesting browser art and experimentation.
Looks like the word "durable" is an emerging term in the world of serverless. As I understand it, it's like allowing for state in places you wouldn't normally
Last year's State of CSS Survey yielded interesting results. There's the quick adoption of features, like calc() and CSS custom properties. There's also the
A look inside their digital presence
@demetris11 embarks on a journey of curiosity and discovery in her new role overseeing DI&B strategy at GitHub
