1,782 articles published in 2021.
In this post we’ll discuss how Spotify optimized and sped up elements from our largest Dataflow job, , for using a technique called Sort Merge Bucket (SMB) join. We’ll present the design and implementation of SMB and how we incorporated it into our data pipelines.
Let’s make this February more colorful! Apart from a new collection of wallpapers, we also have a little creativity challenge waiting for you this month. It’s the perfect occasion to share your ideas with the world — and win a smashing prize along the way. The wallpapers in this post come with and without a calendar for February 2021, and, as a little bonus goodie, you’ll also discover some famili
Day 50: Building some tarballs for puzzles, and trying to make a kernel boot faster
Cloudflare receives a perfect score of 100 on the Human Rights Campaign’s 2021 Corporate Equality Index.
A clever use of CSS grid from Jay Freestone to accomplish a particular variation of the media object design pattern (where the image is centered with the
This post is the third installment of our five-part series on building GitHub’s new homepage: How our globe is built How we collect and use the data behind the globe…
Day 49: making the VMs boot faster
In this article, we look at some of the more advanced features of TypeScript, like union types, conditional types, template literal types, and generics. We want to formalize the most dynamic JavaScript behavior in a way that we can catch most bugs before they happen. We apply several learnings from all chapters of TypeScript in 50 Lessons, a book we’ve published here on Smashing Magazine late 2020
2020 was a big year for data protection, so what does 2021 have in store? On Data Privacy Day, we talk about the role data localization and encryption technologies play in data protection.
In this article, we explain how to build an integrated and interactive data visualization layer into an application with Cumul.io. To do so, we’ve built a
High five to the Greensock gang for the ScrollTrigger release. The point of this new plugin is triggering animation when a page scrolls to certain positions,
I can’t stop thinking about this site. It looks like a pretty standard fare; a website with links to different pages. Nothing to write home about except
Day 48: Another Go program, and a little vim configuration
A step-by-step guide to how you can create dashboards that are user-centred and impact-driven.
What makes a good chatbot experience? Most people think of witty responses and machine learning, but the basis of a chatbot UX is actually rooted in content strategy. In this article Marli Mesibov will answer those questions and identify what you as a content designer can do to make your chatbot successful. A poor chatbot simply says “I’m sorry, I don’t understand” on repeat (or worse “error”.) A
With Vercel, you can now transfer projects from Hobby plan to a Vercel Team Plan with Zero Downtime
How we automated data center expansions and cut by 90% the amount of time our team spent on tedious operational work.
Area 1 has uncovered a coronavirus vaccine-themed campaign spoofing the CDC. The attack, which originally bypassed Office 365’s email security, uses a number of techniques to bypass normal anti-spoofing and email authentication methods.
How to build a very common layout with CSS grid. Header on the top, footer on the bottom. Two columns, sidebar and main content. This one has navigation above the main content but within that same column.
Day 47: Using device mapper to manage Firecracker images
As a member of the Infrastructure Security team, Cailyn set out to create an application to silently and effectively manage SSH keys that persist inside of Shopify's Google Cloud Platform project-wide metadata.
You know, Porky Pig coming out of those red rings announcing the end of a Looney Tunes cartoon. We’ll get there, but first we need to cover some CSS concepts.
I'm not exactly a large-scale DevOps guy, but I can tell ya we've been moving back toward a monorepo at CodePen and it's rife with advantages over a system
This article covers scaling advices for PostgreSQL and explains why it may be a good idea to keep it simple on the database side.
Technology is constantly becoming smarter and more powerful. I often observe that as these technologies are introduced an organization’s productivity instead of improving has reduced. This is because the technology has increased complexities and cognitive overhead to the developer, reducing their effectiveness. In this article, the first of a series, I introduce a framework for maximizing develope
As the world becomes more interconnected and complicated, so too does the expanse of open source ecosystems. While the majority of open source software (OSS) lies with corporate technology companies,…
Day 46: debugging an iptables problem
How to make HTTP requests with fetch and TypeScript
Designing a personalized ranking system for more than 2 billion people (all with different interests) and a plethora of content to select from presents significant, complex challenges. This is something we tackle every day with News Feed ranking. Without machine learning (ML), people’s News Feeds could be flooded with content they don’t find as relevant […]
The promise of seamless design to code translation goes back to the early WYSIWYG page builders. Despite the admirable goal, their biggest flaw was the code that they generated. Skepticism remains to this day and whenever this idea reappears, the biggest concerns are always related to the quality and maintainability of the code. In this article, Miroslav Bekyarov will show you how to turn our stat
In this episode, we’re talking about Web Performance. What does the performance landscape look like in 2021? Drew McLellan talks to expert Harry Roberts to find out.
Discover 10 expert Next.js tips including redirects, rewrites, preview mode, API routes, and performance optimizations to boost your development workflow.
Although tumultuous and unexpected, 2020 did not come without its silver linings, one being Cloudflare’s remote summer internship program.
Steren Giannini in "My stack will outlive yours":
As GitHub doubled it’s developer head count, tooling that worked for us no longer functioned in the same capacity. We aimed to improve the deployment process for all developers at GitHub and mitigate risk associated with deploying one of the largest developer platforms in the world.
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styled-components is a wonderfully powerful styling library for React, and over the years I've learned a lot about how to use it effectively. This article shares my personal “best practices”.
How to stay creative, focused, and organized when working remotely? In this article, Cosima Mielke has compiled some useful tools and resources to help you tackle some of the challenges of working remotely. The collection is by no means complete, but rather a selection of things that we found useful and that we hope will make your day-to-day work more productive and efficient, too.
Firecracker: start a VM in less than a second
Project Fair Shot provides Cloudflare's new Waiting Room service for free for any government, municipality, hospital, pharmacy, or other organization responsible for distributing COVID-19 vaccines.
Today, we are excited to announce Cloudflare Waiting Room! It will be first available to select customers through a new program called Project Fair Shot, with general availability in our Business and Enterprise plans in the near future.
DDoS attack trends in the final quarter of 2020 defied norms in many ways. For the first time in 2020, Cloudflare observed an increase in the number of large DDoS attacks. Specifically, the number of attacks over 500Mbps and 50K pps saw a massive uptick.
It’s no secret that making your first contribution to open source can be intimidating. A Major League Hacking survey found that a majority of students know that contributing to open…
Day 44: Building my VMs with Docker
GraphQL is the syntax that describes data that a client asks from a server. The client, in this case, is a mobile application. GraphQL is usually compared with REST API, a common syntax that most mobile application developers use. We will share how GraphQL can solve some of the pain points of REST API in mobile application development and discuss tips and best practices that we learned at Shopify
Saying no is a skill. Saying yes to the wrong freelance opportunities can lead you toward misery and burnout, and we could all probably improve how mindful we are about our work, partners, and clients. For hungry freelancers, it can be hard to turn work away. But in the long run, saying no to a project that’s a bad fit will make you a better freelancer. This article will help freelancers and consu
Learn how PostgreSQL can help with basic calculations regarding golden proportions. Do mathematics in your database development work.
If you haven’t seen it, the GitHub Changelog helps you keep up-to-date with all the latest features and updates to GitHub. We shipped a tonne of changes last year, and…
Day 43: Building VM images
Technical information about how Netflix uses Android APIs and xHE-AAC metadata, especially MPEG-D DRC, to optimize the listening experience.
In this article, we’ll take a close look at some of the changes we made on this very site — running on JAMStack with React — to optimize the web performance and improve the Core Web Vitals metrics. With some of the mistakes we’ve made, and some of the unexpected changes that helped boost all the metrics across the board. Hopefully, this little case-study will be useful to you, and perhaps there ar
And it was released yesterday! The big news for us in CSS Land is that the new release supports the aspect-ratio property. This comes right on the heels of
Day 42: Writing a Go program to manage Firecracker VMs
Since its inception, Slack has fostered a culture of inclusion and diversity. The Security organization at Slack is a prime example of how women can thrive in the security space, transitioning to security from different backgrounds and expertises. With Slack’s strong commitment to diversity, it should not be a surprise that nearly a third of…
ESM, meaning ES Modules, meaning JavaScript Modules. Like, import and friends.
Netlify Edge Handlers are in Early Access (you can request it), but they are super cool and I think they are worth wrapping your brain around now. I think
