Cloudflare's first year in Lisbon
We landed in Lisbon with a small team of transplants from other Cloudflare offices. We’ve almost quadrupled in a year and we intend to keep growing to around 80 by the end of 2020.
Lazy Loading Images in Svelte
One easy way to improve the speed of a website is to only download images only when they’re needed, which would be when they enter the viewport. This “lazy
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Backdrop Filter effect with CSS
I love these little posts where some tricky-looking design is solved by a single line of CSS using a little-known property. In this case, the design is a
Irregular-shaped Links with Subgrid
Michelle Barker covers a situation where you need offset rectangles part of a clickable area. The tricky part is having just the rectangles be clickable. That
Securing your open source dependencies with GitHub dependency insights
GitHub dependency insights helps both developers and security teams manage their open source security with confidence—automatically compiling relevant CVE information, aiding in OSS license compliance, and helping them better understand their OSS dependency versions.
GitHub Archive Program: the journey of the world’s open source code to the Arctic
At GitHub Universe 2019, we introduced the GitHub Archive Program along with the GitHub Arctic Code Vault. Our mission is to preserve open source software for future generations by storing your code in an archive built to last a thousand years.
Methods Of Improving And Optimizing Performance In React Apps — Smashing Magazine
Since React was introduced, it has transformed the way front-end developers build web applications, and its virtual DOM is famous for effectively rendering components. In this tutorial, Shedrack Akintayo will discuss various methods of optimizing performance in React applications, and also the features of React that we can use to improve performance.
Systems Performance: Enterprise and the Cloud, 2nd Edition
Cloudflare Network expands to more than 100 Countries
We have expanded our global network to 206 cities across more than 100 countries. This is in addition to completing 40+ datacenter expansion projects and adding over 1Tbps of bandwidth capacity to our global backbone so-far in 2020.
Tradeoffs and Shifting Complexity
This is a masterclass from Dave:
pgwatch2 v1.8.0 released
The most significant changes in pgwatch2 v1.8. PGWatch2 is a PostgreSQL monitoring tool - useful dashboard
How we ensure credible analytics on Dropbox mobile apps
Build your own Dropbox Extensions
Dropbox Extensions are now open to all developers. Give users the ability to trigger a workflow in your app directly from their file in Dropbox.
How organizations can tackle securing the world’s code
We all play a role in securing the world’s code. No one company can solve things alone, including GitHub, which is why it is critical to combine the energies of…
JavaScript to Know for React
What JavaScript features you should be familiar with when learning and using React
An Introduction To Stimulus.js — Smashing Magazine
In this article, Mike Rogers will introduce you to Stimulus, a modest JavaScript framework that complements your existing HTML. It allowed him to build applications in a way that feels reusable and approachable. While he doesn’t think Stimulus will take over the web like React and Vue have, he thinks it is a worthwhile tool to learn. By the end, you’ll have an understanding of the premise of Stimu
flowtrackd: DDoS Protection with Unidirectional TCP Flow Tracking
flowtrackd is a software-defined DDoS protection system that significantly improves our ability to automatically detect and mitigate even the most complex TCP-based DDoS attacks. If you are a Magic Transit customer, this feature will be enabled by default at no additional cost on July 29, 2020.
When your coworker does great work, tell their manager
When your coworker does great work, tell their manager
SmashingConf Fully Online For 2020 — Smashing Magazine
We’re moving all of the 2020 conferences online. We hope this means that more of you can join us for these great line-ups! All of our online conference events will take place on the Hopin platform. We roadtested this platform for our Smashing Meets, and we love the way it allows for social chat and side events alongside the main conference. It’s as close as we can get to an in-person experience.
Is Redesigning Your Mobile App A Bad Idea? — Smashing Magazine
The Scrabble GO, Instacart and YouTube mobile apps have recently undergone disruptive redesigns. Were they worth it in the end? Judging by their users’ reactions, the answer to that is “No”. But that doesn’t mean that redesigns or design tweaks are a bad idea after launch. In this article, Suzanne Scacca will take a look at the mistakes made and the lessons we can extract from them.
Smashing Podcast Episode 20 With Marcy Sutton: What Is Gatsby? — Smashing Magazine
We’re talking about Gatsby. What is it and how does it fit into your web development stack? Drew McLellan talks to expert Marcy Sutton to find out.
How I structure Express apps
The build/dev tools and scripts I use for Node backends.
Making aerial fiber deployment faster and more efficient
Globally, more than 3.5 billion people are still not connected to the internet. With average data usage per person growing 20 to 30 percent annually, legacy bandwidth-limited technologies have been pushed to their capacity limits. To meet this increased demand for high-capacity, low-cost networks, mobile network operators have upgraded access technologies from 2G and 3G […]