GitHub availability report: July 2026
In July, we experienced eight incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.
GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: Write your first prompt
Learn how to write your first prompt in the GitHub Copilot app, choose the right context and model, and start your first task with confidence.
Your contributors are AI-first now. Is your project?
AI contributors are already in your queue. AutoGPT maintainer Nicholas Tindle shares the repo instructions, gates, and boundaries that keep maintainers in control.
How We’re Building Scam Alert on WhatsApp With End-to-End Encryption and Verifiability Guarantees
WhatsApp is committed to helping people stay safe while protecting the privacy of their messages. As scam tactics evolve — from impersonation to social engineering to AI-generated lures — we’re always evolving as well, so that our protections stay ahead of scammers while protecting people’s personal messages with end-to-end encryption. Today, we’re sharing an early […]
How we raised mobile end-to-end test stability to 98% (2026) - Shopify
We rebuilt our mobile end-to-end testing framework with a strict API and computer vision, raising test stability drastically.
How we migrated the database behind every Vercel build
How we migrated the build warm pool, one of the most critical services at Vercel, from Redis to DynamoDB live in production, through feature-flagged phases with a rollback at every step.
Building a software factory for AI SDK
We built a software factory that autonomously processes issues and PRs for the AI SDK, with humans in control of every merge. Four weeks in, it authors 25-40% of merged PRs.
Cloudflare DDoS Threat Report H1 2026: 1 Tbps attacks soar as DNS floods and geopolitical tensions drive a new wave
In the first half of 2026, Cloudflare detected a 519% surge in hyper-volumetric DDos attacks across its network. These attacks were driven heavily by DNS and CLDAP reflection vectors. This report breaks down how major geopolitical conflicts reshaped the global cyber threat landscape.
Multi-Region PostgreSQL Disaster Recovery and Failback with Crunchy PGO
This blog talks about Disaster recovery and Failback in PostgreSQL using Crunchy PGO. It has some detailed steps to understand better.
Measuring time savings from Figma Make
The Figma Data Science team assumed that AI saves users time—but quantifying it required a new approach to research design.
From coder to orchestrator: How agents shift the role of a developer
Developers are owning more of the delivery system around code, not just code itself. Join us during GitHub Universe to meet other devs, learn something new, and explore what’s next.
Building Tactile UX: Honoring Intentional Design With Lottie — Smashing Magazine
When tasked with building a highly interactive, tactile web experience, the architecture must serve the art direction. In this article, Alexey Kopytin explains their architectural rationale for building a digital stress-relief squeeze toy game using Lottie animations, DOM events, and distance-based math to maintain absolute control over their designers’ intentional motion.
Mapping the AI economy
AI companies are undergoing rapid global expansion while achieving unprecedented rates of growth. We analyzed Stripe data to understand where global demand is the strongest, and how companies can build to best capture that demand.
Everything hackable will get hacked
Open-weight models that allow perform offensive research present an emerging cybersecurity challenge. But you do not need to wait for specialized models to begin defensive cybersecurity work.
DeepSeek overtakes Google on volume, cost per token falls 13.6%
The AI Gateway production index covering data from July 2026: DeepSeek became the second-largest lab by token volume; Anthropic held 65% of spend at more than twice the average price per token
Everything we launched during Agents Week
Our latest Agents Week has come to a close. Here’s a recap of all the announcements we made, from Wallets to Radar.
Serving the most critical missions- Cloudflare for Government achieves FedRAMP Class D (High) Certified status
Cloudflare for Government achieves FedRAMP Class D (High) Certified status. We also announce our commitment to pursue DoD IL4 authorization. Cloudflare brings world-class security, performance, and developer products to the public sector.
Animating CSS border-image
Border images are an overlooked feature. One neat fact is that border image slices can run across entire borders on an element, and animating it creates beautiful effects. Animating CSS border-image originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks . You should really get the newsletter as well.
SmashingConf Freiburg 2026, September 7-10
Smashing Magazine’s in-person conferences are back and returning to the wonderful city of Freiburg next month, September 7–10. SmashingConf Freiburg 2026, September 7-10 originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks . You should really get the newsletter as well.
Using the GitHub Copilot SDK for Java
Enterprise Java developers have a new superpower—drive GitHub Copilot from idiomatic Java code with annotations, virtual threads, and more.
A sandbox without a network boundary is only half a sandbox
Running untrusted code safely requires more than separating it from the host. You also have to control what that code can reach.
Unveiling good and bad behaviors on the Agentic Internet
Cloudflare is shifting bot mitigation from point-in-time Risk assessment to continuous Trust evaluation. Learn how new good and bad behaviors from bots and agents are assessed by our systems, including BotBase and Precursor — and try out our Precursor Trace simulation to see how your own cursor movements would be assessed as human or bot.
Unifying Workers AI and AI Gateway into a single AI control plane
Cloudflare is unifying AI Gateway and Workers AI into a single control plane, giving developers observability, billing, and dynamic routing across both managed GPUs and external providers. Learn how unified bindings and model-first routing simplify building resilient AI applications.
Announcing Cloudflare Ambassadors, Community Engineers, and another $1M in open-source funding
We are launching updated community programs, including Cloudflare Ambassadors and Community Engineers, backed by $1M in open-source funding. Learn how we are supporting maintainers and scaling our developer community.
