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Statically generated sites or pre-rendering and server-side rendered applications are two modern ways to build front-end applications using JavaScript frameworks. These two modes, yet different, are often mixed up as the same thing and in this tutorial, Timi Omoyeni is going to show you the differences between them. You’ll learn what a server-side-rendered application is, as well as learn about fr
Racism is antithetical to Stripe’s mission. We stand with the Black community against discrimination and police violence.
As with all Cloudflare security products, the WAF is designed to not sacrifice performance for security, but there is always room for improvement. This blog post provides a brief overview of the latest performance improvements that were rolled out to our customers.
The team at Clearstep shares how they designed their symptom checking and care routing platform.
Leia este artigo em português Sabemos como a aprendizagem é importante para o seu sucesso na utilização do GitHub. Quando você estiver usando nossos produtos, esperamos que você se sinta…
Information architecture is the process of categorizing and organizing information to create structure and meaning. To give this context, in this article Carrie Webster explores not only the basics of information architecture, but also the broader view of the information age, how we use information and how it impacts our world and our lives. Understanding the bigger picture enables us to get a muc
TL;DR The pursuit wasn’t always easy, but “putting data first” has helped Spotify dramatically improve the infrastructure team’s decision-making process while improving company productivity. Raul Herbster describes the benefits, especially for mobile DevOps teams.
Usually when I’m commuting into the office, I have to get up at 7am and catch the subway. But these days, I can sleep a little later – I make myself a tea or coffee and check my emails and Slack messages at the kitchen table. Then I get to work and start to review code and pull requests that have come in overnight from developers in the US timezones.
Now that Firefox Nightly supports HTTP/3 we thought we'd share some instructions to help you enable and test it yourselves.
Calculating differences between rows | How can one calculate the difference between the current and the previous row? | timeseries data
Learn to automate the collection and organization of files using Dropbox File Requests within a Tray.io workflow.
One year ago, the security research team at Semmle launched its first Capture the Flag (CTF), as part of the Hack In The Box (HITB) Amsterdam conference. We wanted to…
Tell candidates what to expect from your job interviews
What could be a better way to welcome July than with some colorful inspiration? Well, we might have something for you: wallpapers created with love by artists and designers from across the globe.
We’re talking about CUBE CSS. What is it, and how does it differ from approaches such as BEM, SMACSS, and OOCSS? Drew McLellan talks to its creator, Andy Bell, to find out.
Today, we’d like to share with you some of the stuff that has recently shipped in Workers KV: a new feature and an internal change that should significantly improve latency in some cases. Let’s dig in!
Recently, CSS has added a lot of new cool features such as custom properties and new functions. While these things can make our lives a lot easier, they can
Two things that strike me often about the web are how many ways there are to go about the same thing and how many considerations go into even the most
Test-Driven Development doesn't always make sense, here's when it does for me.
This story speaks to the process behind incident response at Slack and uses the May 12th, 2020 outage as an example. For a deeper technical review of the same outage, read Laura Nolan’s post, “A Terrible, Horrible, No-Good, Very Bad Day at Slack” Slack is a critical tool for millions of people, so it’s natural when…
This story describes the technical details of the problems that caused the Slack downtime on May 12th, 2020. To learn more about the process behind incident response for same outage, read Ryan Katkov’s post, “All Hands on Deck”. On May 12, 2020, Slack had our first significant outage in a long time. We published a summary…
In this tutorial, Chidi Orji will show you how to work with Firebase push notifications in the backend and frontend. We’ll set up the notifications system with an Express back-end server. Afterwards, you’ll listen for the notifications in a React front-end app. You will implement the backend first, then move on to the frontend. In that way, you can use whichever section appeals more to you. So let
The new customer portal makes it even easier to create a great experience for your customers while minimizing engineering investment.
entr: rerun your build when files change
