Techreport blog

Engineering Insights & Guides

The best problem-solving writing in software engineering — databases, performance, security, frontend and distributed systems, in one feed.

11,646 articles
Career & Teams — Astro is joining Cloudflare

Astro is joining Cloudflare

The Astro Technology Company team — the creators of the Astro web framework — is joining Cloudflare. We’re doubling down on making Astro the best framework for content-driven websites, today and in the years to come.

FSFred Schott, Brendan Irvine BroqueFred Schott, Brendan Irvine Broque·January 16, 2026Career & Teams
Networking — HTTP Archive 2025 Web Almanac

HTTP Archive 2025 Web Almanac

I love me some good web research reports. I'm a sucker for them. HTTP Archive's Web Almanac is one report I look forward to every year, and I know I'm not

GGGeoff GrahamGeoff Graham·January 16, 2026Networking
Frontend — "I Heart CSS" DailyDev Squad

"I Heart CSS" DailyDev Squad

If you're reading this, chances are you already have some sort of way that you're following when we publish new content, whether that's RSS, Bluesky,

GGGeoff GrahamGeoff Graham·January 16, 2026Frontend
AI & ML — Human Native is joining Cloudflare

Human Native is joining Cloudflare

Cloudflare acquires Human Native, an AI data marketplace specialising in transforming content into searchable and useful data, to accelerate work building new economic models for the Internet.

CCloudflare·January 15, 2026AI & ML
Engineering — What’s !important #3: Popover Context Menus, @scope, New Web Platform Features, and More

What’s !important #3: Popover Context Menus, @scope, New Web Platform Features, and More

The developer community hasn’t wasted any time kicking off 2026 with some really great articles, demos, and insights. Firefox 147 and Chrome 144 also shipped, and while they’re not jam-packed with features, the releases are still pretty exciting for what’s normally a slow time of year, so without further ado, here’s what’s important from the last couple of weeks (or should I say the first couple o

DSDaniel SchwarzDaniel Schwarz·January 15, 2026Engineering
AI & ML — Adapting the Facebook Reels RecSys AI Model Based on User Feedback

Adapting the Facebook Reels RecSys AI Model Based on User Feedback

We’ve improved personalized video recommendations on Facebook Reels by moving beyond metrics such as likes and watch time and directly leveraging user feedback. Our new User True Interest Survey (UTIS) model, now helps surface more niche, high-quality content and boosts engagement, retention, and satisfaction. We’re doubling down on personalization, tackling challenges like sparse user data […] Re

CWChris Wiltz·January 14, 2026AI & ML
AI & ML — Introducing: React Best Practices

Introducing: React Best Practices

We've encapsulated 10+ years of React and Next.js optimization knowledge into react-best-practices, a structured repository optimized for AI agents and LLMs.

VVercel·January 14, 2026AI & ML
Security — Stop Picking Sides

Stop Picking Sides

Many teams have turned into tribes wedded to exclusively adaptation or optimization. But this misses the point that both of these are important, and we need to manage the tension between them. We can do this by thinking of two operating modes: explore (adaptation-dominant) and exploit (optimization dominant). We tailor a team's operating model to a particular blend of the two - considering uncerta

JHJim Highsmith·January 13, 2026Security