Design system 103: Design system documentation that drives adoption
Clear documentation transforms abstract design principles into practical tools. Read how leading teams build and maintain documentation that evolves alongside their design systems.
That’s a wrap: GitHub Innovation Graph in 2024
Discover the latest trends and insights on public software development activity on GitHub with the release of Q2 & Q3 2024 data for the Innovation Graph.
Using ML to detect and respond to performance degradations in slices of Stripe payments
With our slice monitoring program, we use machine learning to spot small pockets of performance declines amid the sea of global payments.
Refactoring with Codemods to Automate API Changes
Refactoring is something developers do all the time—making code easier to understand, maintain, and extend. While IDEs can handle simple refactorings with just a few keystrokes, things get tricky when you need to apply changes across large or distributed codebases, especially those you don’t fully control. That’s where codemods come in. By using Abstract Syntax Trees (AST), codemods allow you to a
Attacks on Maven proxy repositories
Learn how specially crafted artifacts can be used to attack Maven repository managers. This post describes PoC exploits that can lead to pre-auth remote code execution and poisoning of the local artifacts in Sonatype Nexus and JFrog Artifactory.
Modernizing legacy code with GitHub Copilot: Tips and examples
Learn how to modernize legacy code with GitHub Copilot with real-world examples.
How Meta discovers data flows via lineage at scale
Data lineage is an instrumental part of Meta’s Privacy Aware Infrastructure (PAI) initiative, a suite of technologies that efficiently protect user privacy. It is a critical and powerful tool for scalable discovery of relevant data and data flows, which supports privacy controls across Meta’s systems. This allows us to verify that our users’ everyday interactions […]
Feedback on lessons, leap seconds, and LLMs
Vercel acquires Tremor to invest in open source React components
Tremor, a library of React components to build charts and dashboards, joins Vercel. With this acquisition, all Tremor products—including Tremor Blocks—are now free and open source, bringing elegant UI components to all developers.
Record-breaking 5.6 Tbps DDoS attack and global DDoS trends for 2024 Q4
2024 ended with a bang. Cloudflare mitigated another record-breaking DDoS attack peaking at 5.6 Tbps. Overall, Cloudflare mitigated 21.3 million DDoS attacks in 2024, representing a 53% increase compared to 2023.
The fall and rise of TikTok (traffic)
On January 19, 2025, ByteDance suspended TikTok and related apps for US users. We examine the 14-hour traffic plunge, recovery near Donald Trump’s inauguration, and how alternatives like RedNote surged.
A first look at Config 2025: Two cities, one global community
This year, we’re bringing Config to San Francisco and London. Here’s a first look at what we’re building for our community on both sides of the Atlantic.
Seven years of open source: A more secure and diverse ecosystem
Explore insights into open source community growth, innovation, and inclusivity with an updated survey dataset.
Strobelight: A profiling service built on open source technology
We’re sharing details about Strobelight, Meta’s profiling orchestrator. Strobelight combines several technologies, many open source, into a single service that helps engineers at Meta improve efficiency and utilization across our fleet. Using Strobelight, we’ve seen significant efficiency wins, including one that has resulted in an estimated 15,000 servers’ worth of annual capacity savings. Strobe
Navigating The Challenges Of Modern Open-Source Authoring: Lessons Learned — Smashing Magazine
Alvaro Saburido delves into the current state and challenges of Open-Source authoring, sharing lessons learned from both community- and company-driven initiatives.
AI SDK 4.1
AI SDK 4.1 introduces image generation, non-blocking data streaming, improved tool calling, and more
TikTok ban takes hold: data reveals sharp traffic decline and rapid shift to alternatives
On January 19, 2025, ByteDance shut down access to TikTok and other owned/operated apps for US users, causing an 85% traffic plunge and a rapid shift to alternatives like RedNote.
Fancy Menu Navigation Using Anchor Positioning
Anchor positioning can be great for little interactive effects — as Temani Afif shows off with this clever idea for a menu hover.
How we evaluate AI models and LLMs for GitHub Copilot
We share some of the GitHub Copilot team’s experience evaluating AI models, with a focus on our offline evaluations—the tests we run before making any change to our production environment.
Supporting the next generation of developers
Here’s your opportunity to empower the teen in your life to get a start in open source development.
Feed score update: new hostname in effect today
An Ode To Side Project Time — Smashing Magazine
A once-revered perk of some tech workplaces, the status of ‘side project time’ seems to have slipped in recent years. Frederick O’Brien believes it deserves a comeback.
Measuring productivity impact with Diff Authoring Time
Do types actually make developers more productive? Or is it just more typing on the keyboard? To answer that question we’re revisiting Diff Authoring Time (DAT) – how Meta measures how long it takes to submit changes to a codebase. DAT is just one of the ways we measure developer productivity and this latest episode […]
On-Device AI: Building Smarter, Faster, And Private Applications — Smashing Magazine
Shouldn’t there be a way to keep your apps or project data private and improve performance by reducing server latency? This is what on-device AI is designed to solve. It handles AI processing locally, right on your device, without connecting to the internet and sending data to the cloud. In this article, Joas Pambou explains what on-device AI is, why it’s important, the tools to build this type of
