Automating Datacenter Operations at Dropbox
Courier: Dropbox migration to gRPC
Meet Bandaid, the Dropbox service proxy
Enhancing Bandaid load balancing at Dropbox by leveraging real-time backend server load information
Dropbox traffic infrastructure: Edge network
Firefly: Instant, Full-Text Search Engine for Dropbox (Part 1)
Building better compression together with DivANS
Lossless compression with Brotli in Rust for a bit of Pied Piper on the backend
RunBMC: OCP hardware spec solves data center BMC pain points
Remote work: Reshaping the workplace experience
The GitHub Workplace Experience team weighs in on how to get creative during COVID-19 and what the future holds.
GitHub Action Hero: Victoria Drake
GitHub Actions allows you to automate your workflow. With GitHub Actions, you can deploy to any cloud, build containers, automate messages, and do so much more. Use any tool you…
Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For June 26th, 2020 - High Scalability -
Hey, it's HighScalability time! Line noise? Perl? Still uncertain? It's how you program a quantum computer. Silq. Do you like this sort of Stuff? Without your support on Patreon this kind of Stuff can't happen. You are that important to the fate of the smart and thoughtful world. Know someone who could benefit from understanding the cloud? Of course you do. I wrote Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10 ju
Inspired Design Decisions With Giovanni Pintori: Publicity Becomes An Art Form — Smashing Magazine
In the tenth issue of Inspired Design Decisions, Andy Clarke will explain how Giovanni Pintori — the Italian graphic designer best known for his work with Olivetti — can inspire design for the web with his distinctive use of color and shape. Andy will teach you how to use color to attract attention and then to lead someone’s eye around a design. He’ll discuss how a minimal color palette can act as
Some Typography Links III
I just can't stop opening excellent typography-related articles, which means I need to subject you to blog posts that round them up so I can clean up my open
The Mad Magazine Fold-In Effect in CSS
This was always my favorite thing in Mad magazine. One page (the inside of the back cover, I think) was covered in a zany illustration. You folded that page
GitHub Enterprise Server 2.21 is here
GitHub Enterprise Server 2.21 is now available with updates to simplify collaboration, increase reliability and improve security.
Dependabot now updates your Actions workflows
GitHub Actions makes it easy to automate all your software workflows, from continuous integration and delivery to issue triage and more. Whether you want to build a container, deploy a…
Django Highlights: Wrangling Static Assets And Media Files (Part 4) — Smashing Magazine
Front-end developers and designers create amazing static assets for web applications. Today, Philip Kiely will be focusing on what happens after the style hotfix or beautiful graphic you just finished is pushed to master. He’ll also investigate handling files that users upload, called media files. Together, you’ll develop an intuition for the strategies available to Django developers for serving t
How to evaluate design tools
A framework for project managing, testing, and choosing a design tool, based on what we’ve heard from our users.
Welcome to the inaugural class of MLH Fellows
Student developers are the future of software. Their taste in tools, habits around code, what they are learning–all of these drivers will shape tech, and culture in general, for years…
Writing Better, Type-safe Code with Sorbet - Shopify
I want to talk about one contribution that has takeaways for any Ruby developer. Here are 4 reasons for why we adopted Sorbet for static type checking.
The App Sandbox
Batten down the hatches! The app sandbox is now enabled for all web content. This is a fancy way of saying we’ve dialed up the security of the app. It wasn’t unsafe before, but it’s double safe now. What is the “app sandbox,” what is it protecting against, and why does it matter? This post…
A Practical Guide To Testing React Applications With Jest — Smashing Magazine
Building a well-functioning application requires good testing; otherwise, knowing whether your application works as expected would be a matter of guesswork and luck. Jest is one of the best tools available for testing React applications. In this article, Adeneye David Abiodun will show you everything you need to create a solid test for your React components and application.
