GitHub Mobile and GraphQL
GitHub’s mobile applications have used GraphQL to power new features. We’ve now been able to move faster and get more done with less hassle and no over-fetching. We were able…
Enforcing Modularity in Rails Apps with Packwerk - Shopify
Packwerk is an open source static analysis tool used to enforce boundaries between groups of Ruby files we call packages.
Simplify Your Stack With A Custom-Made Static Site Generator — Smashing Magazine
In modern development, there are so many great tools for developing websites, but often they are more than what’s necessary for a given project. Because these tools are built for diverse use cases, they have to have a lot of features. Those features make them powerful. They also make them quite complex and opaque for new developers. In this article, Bryan Robinson will explore how to take a humble
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Accessible Web Animation: The WCAG on Animation Explained
It’s true, web animation can be accessible! Sometimes it just takes a little extra effort to make sure that it is. There are strategic things we can do to
ztext.js
Super cool project from Bennett Feely! It makes any web type into 3D lettering with a mouseover effect that moves the 3D objects in space. It's reminiscent of
The many dimensions of trust in design
How trust powers open design, and more takeaways from Config Europe
Snakes in a Facebook Datacenter - High Scalability -
What do you do when you find a snake in your datacenter? You might say this. (NSFW) Fault tolerance is the property that enables a system to continue operating properly in the event of the failure of some of its components. You might think Facebook solved all of its fault tolerance problems long ago, but when a serpent enters the Edenic datacenter realm, even Facebook must consult the Tree of Know
A CSS Grid Framework For Shopify Collection Pages — Smashing Magazine
All pages of a Shopify online store can adopt CSS Grid, but one obvious touchpoint of any e-commerce site that can benefit from a robust and clean grid layout is the collection page. In this article, Liam Griffin will be looking at how to set up a grid layout for products on your collection pages, and how to use Shopify’s section settings to create customizable options in the online store editor.
Smashing Podcast Episode 25 With Anthony Campolo: What Is RedwoodJS? — Smashing Magazine
We’re talking about RedwoodJS. What exactly does it mean to be a full-stack Jamstack framework? Drew McLellan talks to community champion Anthony Campolo to find out.
How did they send money in the olden days of telegraphs? - High Scalability -
It's not all that different really, especially that part where you can lose all your bitcoin. Here's an excerpt from East of Eden by John Steinbeck: Say, Carlton, how do you go about telegraphing money?” “Well, you bring me a hundred and two dollars and sixty cents and I send a wire telling the Valdosta operator to pay Adam one hundred dollars. You owe me sixty cents too.” “I’ll pay—say, how do I
A Friendly Introduction to Spring Physics
Of all the little tips and techniques I've picked up over the years about animation, spring physics remains one of the most powerful and flexible. In this tutorial, we'll learn how to harness their power to build fluid, organic transitions.
Mark Harman elected Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering
The U.K.’s Royal Academy of Engineering has elected Facebook Research Scientist Mark Harman as a Fellow for his achievements in academia and industry, including his work on search-based software engineering (SBSE), intelligent software testing tools, and web-enabled simulation (WES) approaches. Election to the Academy is by invitation only, and it is one of the highest […]
Just how many people do we need doing that job, anyway?
Building the Next Evolution of Cloud Networks at Slack
At Slack, we’ve gone through an evolution of our AWS infrastructure from the early days of running a few hand-built EC2 instances, all the way to provisioning thousands of EC2s instances across multiple AWS regions, using the latest AWS services to build reliable and scalable infrastructure. One of the pain points inherited from the early…
How To Build Rapport With Your Web Design Clients — Smashing Magazine
Building positive relationships with your clients is the secret ingredient to delivering better work, earning more money, and creating lasting partnerships. In this article, Matt Saunders is going to teach some strategies for managing client communication and processes that have helped him to run less stressful projects and achieve better results, as well as draw upon some best practices to help y
Snackwatch: when credit card readers land at the office
How a hypothetical learning project might evolve
Raking the floods: my intern project using eBPF
SYN-cookies help mitigating SYN-floods for TCP, but how can we protect services from similar attacks that use UDP? We designed an algorithm and a library to fill this gap, and it’s open source!
Enforcing performance budgets with webpack
As you probably know, a single monolithic JavaScript bundle — once a best practice — is no longer the way to go for modern web applications. Research has
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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For Sep 18th, 2020 - High Scalability -
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SmashingConfs, Inspiring Talks And Birthday Cake — Smashing Magazine
There’s a lot of information out there — that’s a fact. In these monthly editions, Smashing’s senior editor Iris brings it all in one place because we know how hard it can be to stay on top of things. So with no further ado, here’s what was, what is, and what will be!
