GitHub Enterprise Server 3.3 is generally available
GitHub Enterprise Server is now generally available for all customers. This release improves performance for CI/CD and for customers with large repositories.
Some latency measurement pitfalls
5 DevOps tips to speed up your developer workflow
From learning YAML to scripting with Bash, here are a few simple tips for developers who want to speed up their workflows.
When is it "Right" to Reach for contain and will-change in CSS?
I've got some blind spots in CSS-related performance things. One example is the will-change property. It's a good name. You're telling the browser some
Which SVG technique performs best for way too many icons?
Tyler Sticka digs in here in the best possible way: by making a test page and literally measuring performance. Maybe 1,000 icons is a little bit of an edge
Entity-attribute-value (EAV) design in PostgreSQL - don't do it!
This article explains what the entity-attribute-value (EAV) model is and why you shouldn't use it in a relational database.
Vercel: Series D funding announcement
Vercel raised a $150M Series D at a $2.5B valuation to accelerate its mission to make the Web faster for developers and teams.
Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study) — Smashing Magazine
Implementing a performance culture at Wix can enable you to apply performance enhancements to almost every part of your technological stack — from infrastructure to software architecture and media formats. In this article, Dan Shappir shares which actions and processes the Wix team put in place in order to achieve dramatic improvements in the performance of websites built and hosted on their platf
Network Performance Update: Full Stack Week
Several months ago, we shared extensive benchmarking results of edge networks around the world, and made a commitment that we would improve in 10% of networks where we were not #1. Here are our results today.
New Radar features help you better manage fraud
We’ve improved our machine learning performance and added features to help you monitor fraud and adapt to the latest trends.
wrangler 2.0 — a new developer experience for Cloudflare Workers
We're excited to announce the second-generation of our developer tooling for Cloudflare Workers. It’s a new developer experience that’s out-of-the-box, lightning fast, and can even run Workers on a local machine. (Yes!)
Automatically Transforming And Optimizing Images And Videos On Your WordPress Website — Smashing Magazine
If we want to make our websites successful, we need to pay special attention to two concerns: design and speed. In both accounts, Cloudinary can help us out. In this article, Leonardo Losoviz explains how Cloudinary’s integration can be used with WordPress to produce and deliver optimal digital experiences.
Building Blocks of High Performance Hydrogen-powered Storefronts - Shopify
The future of commerce is dynamic, contextual, and personalized. Hydrogen is a React-based framework for building custom and creative storefronts powered by Shopify’s platform and APIs.
Meet Hydrogen: A React Framework For Dynamic, Contextual And Personalized E-Commerce — Smashing Magazine
A great commerce experience cannot be distilled to a single number. It’s not a Lighthouse score, or a set of Core Web Vitals figures, although both are important inputs. A great commerce experience is a trilemma that carefully balances competing needs of delivering a great customer experience, dynamic storefront capabilities, and long-term business — conversion, retention, re-engagement — objectiv
The Vitality of Core Web Vitals - Shopify
A deep dive into each metric of Google Core Web Vitals.
Shopify's Path to a Faster Trino Query Execution: Custom Verification, Benchmarking, and Profiling Tooling - Shopify
Shopify’s Data Reliability team built custom verification, benchmarking, and profiling tooling for testing and analyzing Trino. Our tooling is designed to minimize the risk of various changes at scale.
Cloudflare Tunnel for Content Teams
See how we’re using Cloudflare Tunnel to share our technical writing with internal stakeholders for a faster, seamless feedback process.
GitHub Does My Operations Homework: A Ruby Speed Story - Shopify
Learn how fast YJIT really is. This posts walks through Shopify's new benchmarking harness for YJIT, plus graphs and benchmarks updated twice a day.
Try Out YJIT for Faster Rubying - Shopify
Shopify is building a new JIT implementation on top of CRuby. This post walks through how to build CRuby and all about building YJIT.
Coalescing Connections to Improve Network Privacy and Performance
Real world experiments for evaluating connection coalescing effects.
Scaling indexing and search - Algolia New Search Architecture Part 2 - High Scalability -
What would a totally new search engine architecture look like? Who better than Julien Lemoine, Co-founder & CTO of Algolia, to describe what the future of search will look like. This is the second article in a series. Here's Part 1. Search engines need to support fast scaling for both Read and Write operations. Rapid scaling is essential in most use cases. For example, adding a vendor in a marketp
Links on React and JavaScript II
How To Use The Vite Build Tool with React — Vite is hot, in part, because it's based on esbuild and wickedly fast. It's from Evan You of Vue fame, but it's
Dark Mode for the Cloudflare Dashboard
Dark mode is now available for the Cloudflare Dashboard in beta! From your user profile, you can configure the Cloudflare Dashboard in light mode, dark mode, or match it to your system settings.
Reusing Code with React Native Packages at Shopify - Shopify
At Shopify, we develop a bunch of different React Native mobile apps: Shop, Inbox, Point of Sale, Shopify Mobile, and Local Delivery. These apps represent different business domains, but they often have shared pieces of functionality like login or foundational blocks they build upon. Wouldn’t it be great to leverage development speed and focus on important product features by reusing code other te
The Speed of Time
Getting Your head Straight: A New CSS Performance Diagnostics Snippet — Smashing Magazine
We love little useful tools and techniques to help folks get their work done better and faster. Today, we’d love to shine the spotlights on a little helper that helps spot common performance bottlenecks easily: [ct.css](https://csswizardry.com/ct/).
At Next.js Conf 2021, let’s make the Web. Faster.
Join us for Next.js Conf on October 26, 2021.
Cloudflare Pages is Lightning Fast
With Cloudflare’s extensive network, consisting of 250+ cities, your Pages site is deployed directly to the edge in seconds.
Profiling Your Workers with Wrangler
To help measure performance of our customers’ Workers, we’re beginning to integrate with the Chrome DevTools protocol.
Benchmarking Edge Network Performance: Akamai, Cloudflare, Amazon CloudFront, Fastly, and Google
We recently ran a measurement experiment where we used Real User Measurement (RUM) data from the standard browser API to test the performance of Cloudflare and others in real-world conditions across the globe.
The Zero Trust platform built for speed
Cloudflare for Teams secures your company’s users, devices, and data — without slowing you down. Your team should not need to sacrifice performance in order to be secure.
Cloudflare Backbone: A Fast Lane on the Busy Internet Highway
It’s important that our network continues to help bring improved performance and resiliency to the Internet. To accomplish this, we built our own backbone.
Magic makes your network faster
Today, as part of Speed Week, we’ll break down the other side of the Magic: how using Cloudflare can automatically make your entire network faster.
Optimizing images on the web
A detailed breakdown of how best to optimize images for the web, a new tool to test a webpage's image performance, and explanation of how Cloudflare Images can help to improve your website's image experience.
Reducing The Need For Pseudo-Elements — Smashing Magazine
Front-end development is exciting and fast-moving. With newer CSS properties, we can brush the dust off our old techniques and give them another look. For years, pseudo-elements have faithfully helped front-end developers implement creative designs. While they still have an important place, we can now leave pseudo-elements behind in some scenarios, thanks to newer CSS properties.
Improving Origin Performance for Everyone with Orpheus and Tiered Cache
Building a better Internet means helping build more reliable and efficient services that everyone can use.
Argo 2.0: Smart Routing Learns New Tricks
Starting today, all Free, Pro, and Business plan Argo customers will see improved performance with no additional configuration or charge.
Data at Cloudflare just got a lot faster: Announcing Live-updating Analytics and Instant Logs
Today, we’re excited to introduce Live-updating Analytics and Instant Logs. For Pro, Business, and Enterprise customers, our analytics dashboards now update in real time. In addition to this, Enterprise customers can now view their HTTP request logs instantly in the Cloudflare dashboard.
Cloudflare Workers: the Fast Serverless Platform
Today, Workers is 30% faster than it was three years ago at P90. And it is 210% faster than Lambda@Edge, and 298% faster than Lambda.
Welcome to Speed Week and a Waitless Internet
No one likes to wait. Internet impatience is something we all suffer from.
Quadratic algorithms are slow (and hashmaps are fast)
Quadratic algorithms are slow (and hashmaps are fast)
Improve Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) on Your Website With Ease
Optimizing the user experience you offer on your website is essential for the success of any online business. Google does use different user
Using SWR React Hooks With Next.js’ Incremental Static Regeneration (ISR) — Smashing Magazine
When paired with ISR and Next.js’ API routes, SWR can be used to create a responsive user experience. In this article, Sam Poder explains what SWR is, where to use it (and where not), and how to build a website by using Incremental Static Regeneration. This approach ensures that users still have a good experience, that the site is fast and that the data is kept up to date.
ZFS Is Mysteriously Eating My CPU
How Backstage Made Our Developers More Effective — And How It Can Help Yours, Too
What’s the best way to assess your developers’ experience and performance to discover what they need help with? Is it by measuring something arbitrary, like how many lines of code they’ve written or how many commits they’ve made? Nope. How much useful data are you really getting out of those numbers anyway?
Refactoring CSS: Optimizing Size And Performance (Part 3) — Smashing Magazine
Refactored codebase should result in similar or improved performance and improved codebase health. After all, if deploying the refactored codebase causes loading or performance issues, it will result in less traffic and revenue. Luckily, there are many optimization techniques we can apply to tackle potential file size and performance issues.
Creating A Public/Private Multi-Monorepo For PHP Projects — Smashing Magazine
There is no “best” solution, only solutions that might work better depending on the context. The multi-monorepo approach is not suitable to every kind of project or team. In this article, Leonardo explains how to use a "multi-monorepo" approach for making the development experience faster, yet keeping your PHP packages private. This solution can be especially beneficial for PRO plugin creators.
HTTP/3: Performance Improvements (Part 2) — Smashing Magazine
After almost five years in development, the new HTTP/3 protocol is nearing its final form. In this second part, Robin Marx will zoom in on the performance improvements that QUIC and HTTP/3 bring to the table for web-page loading. We will, however, also be somewhat skeptical of the impact we can expect from these new features in practice.
Useful Figma Plugins And Tools — Smashing Magazine
Useful Figma plugins that will help you fix all the little slowdowns and boost your productivity. From color management and image assets to SVG shapes and animation. Whether you’re just starting out with Figma or have been using it for a good while now, this post will give you just enough pointers to make your design process faster and smoother.
PostgreSQL vs Redis vs Memcached performance
PostgreSQL vs Redis vs Memcached: How would it look on the performance side, if one just skips the cache & hits the database directly?
HTTP/3 From A To Z: Core Concepts — Smashing Magazine
After almost five years in development, the new HTTP/3 protocol is nearing its final form. Earlier iterations were already available as an experimental feature, but you can expect the availability and use of HTTP/3 proper to ramp up over in 2021. So what exactly is HTTP/3? Why was it needed so soon after HTTP/2? How can or should you use it? And especially, how does it improve web performance? Let
New Nuxt Features past v2.10
Nuxt offers an incredible developer experience, with a lot of performance and application setup best practices baked in. In recent releases, they’ve been
Cloudflare Helps K-12s Go Back to School
Cloudflare is excited to announce our Back to School initiative that provides special K-12 Education pricing to help school districts stop cyber attacks while improving web performance.
React Children And Iteration Methods — Smashing Magazine
In this article, we’ll discuss and learn about the use case of iterating over React `children` and the ways to do it. In particular, we will deep dive into one of the utility methods, `React.Children.toArray`, that React gives us, which helps to iterate over the children in a way which ensures performance and determinism.
Durable Objects: Easy, Fast, Correct — Choose three
When multiple clients access the same storage concurrently, race conditions abound. Durable Objects can make it easier. We recently rolled out improvements to Durable Objects that automatically correct many common race conditions while actually making your code faster.
Helping build a green Internet
While we didn't set out to reduce the environmental impact of the Internet, Cloudflare has always had efficiency at its core. It comes from our ongoing fight with an old nemesis: the speed of light.
Designing Edge Servers with Arm CPUs to Deliver 57% More Performance Per Watt
Using Arm, Cloudflare can now securely process over ten times as many Internet requests for every watt of power consumed, than we did for servers designed in 2013.
Learnings From a WebPageTest Session on CSS-Tricks
I got together with Tim Kadlec from over at WebPageTest the other day to use do a bit of performance testing on CSS-Tricks. Essentially use the tool, poke
You Can Do That With A JavaScript Data Grid? — Smashing Magazine
Data grids need to be easy to understand, engaging, responsive, and accessible. They need to perform well and load data fast. However, building a data grid that meets these standards from scratch can take a long time and be a huge undertaking. In this article, you’ll get to see some pretty groundbreaking things you can achieve with modern JavaScript grids. You’ll learn how these data tables solve
Building A Dynamic Header With Intersection Observer — Smashing Magazine
Have you ever needed to build a UI where some component on the page needs to respond to elements as they’re scrolled to a certain threshold within the viewport — or perhaps in and out of the viewport itself? In JavaScript, attaching an event listener to constantly fire a callback on scroll can be performance-intensive, and if used unwisely, can make for a sluggish user experience. But there is a b
