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SmashingConf is coming to Austin, and in this post, Rachel Andrew brings you an interview with one of our speakers, Zach Leatherman, who will be talking about type and font performance. Zach is no stranger to the Smashing stage, and if you want to find out more about web fonts and loading strategies, you can watch his talk from SmashingConf London 2018.

Get in touch with Vercel Support easier than ever before, without having to leave your dashboard.

A new podcast from Sean Fioritto inspired by Joel Califa's term "Full Stack Anxiety".



Spotify built its business on flawless content delivery. Our streaming platform serves up more than 50 million tracks (plus an array of images and other assets) to more than 230 million monthly active users around the world — making us one of the world’s leading streaming services. With content that feels instant and immersive, we help our customers have the best experience possible with their fav

The is one of Spotify’s largest marketing and social campaigns of the year. It enables our users to see a detailed breakdown of their listening habits over the past year. Since 2019 was the end of the decade, we wanted to do something special for our users. As one of the few streaming platforms that has existed since before 2010, Spotify had a unique opportunity to be able to provide users with a

Tune in to Hans Dockter, CEO & Founder of Gradle, as he explains the emerging practice of Developer Productivity Engineering and how data and acceleration technologies can speed up and improve essential software development processes.

Time to wake up, grab a shower and get my train. I live in Newton, Massachusetts, which means a half-hour ride into work. And I spend that time bouncing around between various streaming and podcast platforms on my phone—half to entertain myself, half as market research. It’s a great opportunity to put myself in the shoes of someone who doesn’t work at Spotify, listen with fresh ears, and figure ou

Hear from John Allspaw – former CTO of Etsy and one of the leading members of the DevOps movement – as he explains how Resilience Engineering techniques can help us understand incidents in online software worlds in a broader and deeper way.

I never set an alarm clock these days—my children wake me up sometime before 7am and we get them breakfast, help them get dressed and all get ready for the day. One of the coolest things about where we live in Stockholm is that everything is within walking distance—I just cross the street to drop our younger kid at preschool, go two blocks down to drop the older one at their school, and then walk

At Spotify, we believe strongly in data-informed decision making. Whether we’re considering a big shift in our product strategy or we’re making a relatively quick decision about which track to add to one of our editorially-programmed playlists, data provides a foundation for sound decision making. An insight is a conclusion drawn from data that can help influence decisions and drive change. To ena

Short story: Philip Walton has a clever idea for using service workers to cache the top and bottom of HTML files, reducing a lot of network weight.

Artists and designers from across the globe once again got out their favorite tools and created unique and inspiring wallpapers to welcome the new month. The wallpapers are available with and without a calendar for February 2020 and can be downloaded for free.

Easily forward and collect your logs using Log Drains.

Now user testing is easier and faster with Figma and Maze’s new product integration.

Today, Anna Prenzel would like to focus on data streams resulting from click events on the user interface. The processing of such clickstreams is particularly useful for applications with an intensive user interaction where many events have to be processed. This article is dedicated to Angular developers who want to harness the concept of reactive programming. This is a programming style that — si

We're showcasing developers building incredible projects with tools like Workers KV or our streaming HTML rewriter.

You ask "What can I build with Cloudflare Workers?" @cloudflare responds:

It's cool to see progressive enhancement being done even while using the fanciest of the fancy front-end technologies.

Pretty notable when a tweet about a flexbox layouts gets 8K+ likes on Twitter!

Learning how to build GraphQL APIs can be quite challenging. But you can learn how to use GraphQL APIs in 10 minutes! And it so happens I've got the perfect