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Career & Teams — Bridging the Gap Between Slack and Email Users

Bridging the Gap Between Slack and Email Users

Slack brings the right people, information, and tools together to get work done. Normally, team members can invite one another to Slack via email invitation. Invited users can accept the invitation to activate their account, but if they don’t, then their team members can’t collaborate with them. To solve this problem we created Email Bridge:…

MBMadhu Balakrishna·October 14, 2020Career & Teams
Engineering — Zero Trust For Everyone

Zero Trust For Everyone

Announcing our new Teams plans, and more specifically, our Cloudflare for Teams Free plan, which protects up to 50 users at no cost.

AAbeAbe·October 13, 2020Engineering
Engineering — Presenting v7.0.0 of the npm CLI

Presenting v7.0.0 of the npm CLI

We’re releasing v7.0.0 of the npm CLI, which includes exciting new features such as Workspaces, automatically installed peer deps, and more!

MBMyles BorinsMyles Borins·October 13, 2020Engineering
Security — Introducing Cloudflare One

Introducing Cloudflare One

Today we’re announcing Cloudflare One. It provides secure, fast, reliable, cost-effective network services, integrated with leading identity management and endpoint security providers.

MPMatthew PrinceMatthew Prince·October 12, 2020Security
Security — What is Cloudflare One?

What is Cloudflare One?

Today, we’re excited to share Cloudflare One™, our vision to tackle the intractable job of corporate security and networking. Run your network on Cloudflare and keep it secure.

RSRustam, SamRustam, Sam·October 12, 2020Security
Frontend — React Form Validation With Formik And Yup — Smashing Magazine

React Form Validation With Formik And Yup — Smashing Magazine

Forms are an integral part of how users interact with our websites and web applications. Validating the data the user passes through the form is a critical aspect of our jobs as web developers. However, it doesn’t have to be a pain-staking process. In this article, Nefe Emadamerho-Atori will show you how Formik handles the state of the form data, validates the data, and handles form submission.

NENefe Emadamerho AtoriNefe Emadamerho Atori·October 12, 2020Frontend
Performance — Exploring WebAssembly AI Services on Cloudflare Workers

Exploring WebAssembly AI Services on Cloudflare Workers

Edge networks present a significant opportunity for Artificial Intelligence (AI) performance and applicability. AI technologies already make it possible to run compelling applications like object and voice recognition, navigation, and recommendations.

CCloudflare·October 9, 2020Performance
Engineering — Release Radar

Release Radar

We’re here to bring you the latest and greatest releases for October 2020. These are exciting new releases from some of the coolest projects around. There’s everything from world-changing tech,…

MDMichelle DukeMichelle Duke·October 9, 2020Engineering
SRE & Ops — Nemo: Data discovery at Facebook

Nemo: Data discovery at Facebook

Large-scale companies serve millions or even billions of people who depend on the services these companies provide for their everyday needs. To keep these services running and delivering meaningful experiences, the teams behind them need to find the most relevant and accurate information quickly so that they can make informed decisions and take action. Finding […]

MEMeta Engineering·October 9, 2020SRE & Ops
Frontend — Using WebXR With Babylon.js — Smashing Magazine

Using WebXR With Babylon.js — Smashing Magazine

In this overview of WebXR technologies and the Babylon.js framework, we’ll embark on a journey through the past, present, and future of mixed reality both on the web and on immersive headsets. We’ll inspect the underpinnings of WebXR and the most important aspects of the WebXR Device API before turning our attention to Babylon.js, a framework for building immersive applications in JavaScript for w

PSPreston SoPreston So·October 9, 2020Frontend
Frontend — Balancing on a Pivot with Flexbox

Balancing on a Pivot with Flexbox

Let me show you a way I recently discovered to center a bunch of elements around what I call the pivot. I promise you that funky HTML is out of the question

JMJulian MerkenichJulian Merkenich·October 8, 2020Frontend
Databases — CG/SQL: Easy, accurate code generation for SQLite

CG/SQL: Easy, accurate code generation for SQLite

What it is: CG/SQL is a code generation system for the popular SQLite library that allows developers to write stored procedures in a variant of Transact-SQL (T-SQL) and compile them into C code that uses SQLite’s C API to do the coded operations. CG/SQL enables engineers to create highly complex stored procedures with very large […]

MEMeta Engineering·October 8, 2020Databases
Performance — How To Manage File Uploads In React With Google Storage And GraphQL — Smashing Magazine

How To Manage File Uploads In React With Google Storage And GraphQL — Smashing Magazine

From a user’s profile picture to other media assets, data collection and storage to cloud services through file uploads have become an essential feature for most modern applications. Today, Nwani Victory will show you how to file uploads that can be implemented in a GraphQL application. This article will be beneficial to developers who are interested in or considering using Google Cloud Storage fo

NVNwani VictoryNwani Victory·October 8, 2020Performance
Networking — GitHub Docs are now open source

GitHub Docs are now open source

Today, we’re excited to open source GitHub Docs at http://github.com/github/docs. Being a developer means always learning, and great docs can be like rocket fuel. They’re there when you need them,…

JNJanice NiemeirJanice Niemeir·October 7, 2020Networking
Frontend — Master TypeScript In 50 Short Lessons — Smashing Magazine

Master TypeScript In 50 Short Lessons — Smashing Magazine

Meet our new book, “TypeScript in 50 Lessons”, a deep-dive to understand what TypeScript is, how it works, and how you can make it work for you. With code walkthroughs, hands-on examples and common gotchas. 464 pages. Jump to table of contents and get the book right away.

VFVitaly FriedmanVitaly Friedman·October 7, 2020Frontend
Engineering — Developing For The Semantic Web — Smashing Magazine

Developing For The Semantic Web — Smashing Magazine

The dream of a machine-readable Internet is as old as the Internet itself, but only in recent years has it really seemed possible. The benefits of developing for the Semantic Web are not always immediate, or visible, but every site that does strengthens the foundations of an open, transparent, decentralized internet. As major websites take strides towards data-fying their content, now’s the perfec

FOFrederick O BrienFrederick O Brien·October 7, 2020Engineering
Performance — New and Improved Developer Guides

New and Improved Developer Guides

New developer guides for the Dropbox API are available for OAuth, File Access, Sharing, Extensions, Team Files, Team Administration, Performance, Error Handling, and Detecting Changes.

TKTaylor Krusen·October 6, 2020Performance
Engineering — Safe harbors for software collaboration, part 1

Safe harbors for software collaboration, part 1

As policymakers grapple with how to address hate speech and disinformation on the internet, they’re eying the legal structure underpinning collaborative software development: legal safe harbors. These safe harbors protect…

AVAbby VollmerAbby Vollmer·October 6, 2020Engineering
Engineering — Do Website Policy Disclosure Pages Always Have To Be So Ugly? — Smashing Magazine

Do Website Policy Disclosure Pages Always Have To Be So Ugly? — Smashing Magazine

In some instances, privacy policy, terms of use, and cookie consent pages do have to be ugly. But that doesn’t mean you can’t improve upon how easy they are to read or navigate (which visitors will definitely appreciate). Today, we’re going to look at four ways that web designers can contribute to getting more policy disclosure pages read and terms actually agreed to.

SSSuzanne ScaccaSuzanne Scacca·October 6, 2020Engineering
Security — Know When You’ve Been DDoS’d

Know When You’ve Been DDoS’d

Today we’re announcing the availability of DDoS attack alerts. The alerts are available for free for all Cloudflare’s customers on paid plans. Learn how to create an alert.

CCloudflare·October 5, 2020Security
Engineering — On the Web Share API

On the Web Share API

I think the Web Share API is very cool (here's our coverage). In a nutshell, it taps into the native sharing features on whatever platform you're on, if that

CCChris Coyier·October 5, 2020Engineering
Frontend — Full-Bleed Layout Using CSS Grid

Full-Bleed Layout Using CSS Grid

Certain layouts are surprisingly dastardly. On the modern web, one of the most common layouts is also one of the trickiest. In this tutorial, I break down how to build the "full-bleed" layout using CSS Grid.

JWJosh W. Comeau·October 5, 2020Frontend
Frontend — Useful Tools In Vue.js Web Development — Smashing Magazine

Useful Tools In Vue.js Web Development — Smashing Magazine

There are some tools that developers that are just getting started with Vue or sometimes, have experience building with Vue sometimes do not know exist to make development in Vue a lot easier. Today, Timi Omoyeni is going to show you a few of these libraries, what they do, and how to use them during development. This tutorial is aimed at beginners that either just started learning about Vue or alr

TOTimi OmoyeniTimi Omoyeni·October 5, 2020Frontend
Networking — DNS Flag Day 2020

DNS Flag Day 2020

October 1 is DNS Flag Day, an initiative by the DNS community to make DNS more secure, reliable and robust. This year the focus is on problems around IP fragmentation of DNS packets.

CCloudflare·October 2, 2020Networking
Frontend — CSS Media Queries Guide

CSS Media Queries Guide

CSS Media queries are a way to target browser by certain characteristics, features, and user preferences, then apply styles based on those things.

AGAndrés GalanteAndrés Galante·October 2, 2020Frontend
Frontend — How To Use Face Motion To Interact With Typography — Smashing Magazine

How To Use Face Motion To Interact With Typography — Smashing Magazine

In this article, Edoardo Cavazza will show you how to use face recognition with Tensorflow in order to extract some information from the camera, such as the distance between the screen and user’s face or the amount of people reading the page. Then, we will pass those data to CSS in order to adapt typography and to adjust the page layout.

ECEdoardo CavazzaEdoardo Cavazza·October 2, 2020Frontend
Networking — Introducing API Shield

Introducing API Shield

Of the 18 million requests per second that traverse Cloudflare’s network, 50% are directed towards APIs. Cloudflare is making it simple to secure APIs through the use of strong client certificate-based identity and strict schema-based validation.

PDPatrick, DanielePatrick, Daniele·October 1, 2020Networking
Security — NTS is now an RFC

NTS is now an RFC

After much hard work, NTS finally becomes an official RFC.This means that Network Time Security (NTS) is officially part of the collection of protocols that makes the Internet work.

WWatsonWatson·October 1, 2020Security
Security — Announcing support for gRPC

Announcing support for gRPC

Today we're excited to announce beta support for proxying gRPC, a next-generation protocol that allows you to build APIs at scale. With gRPC on Cloudflare, you get access to the security, reliability and performance features that you're used to having at your fingertips for traditional APIs.

AAchielAchiel·October 1, 2020Security