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Debugging Systems in the Cloud: MySQL, Kubernetes, and Cgroups - Shopify
An overview of how we investigated and solved the issue of some Kubernetes Pods running MySQL starting up and shutting down slower than other similar Pods with the same data set.
Respecting Users’ Motion Preferences — Smashing Magazine
The `prefers-reduced-motion` media query has excellent support in all modern browsers going back a couple of years. In this article, Michelle Barker explains why there’s no reason not to use it today to make your sites more accessible.
Indexing the creator economy
We indexed the creator economy by measuring the growth of creator platforms on Stripe. Creators are coming online at a record clip—from all around the world. More and more are earning a living wage doing what they do best
Traffic Sequence: Which Product Runs First?
Understand how Cloudflare product’s interact via the new dashboard addition ‘Traffic Sequence’.
Getting Cloudflare Tunnels to connect to the Cloudflare Network with QUIC
It is now possible to connect a Cloudflare Tunnel to the Cloudflare network with QUIC. While doing this, we ran into an interesting connectivity problem unique to UDP.
Zero Trust — Not a Buzzword
Over the last few years, Zero Trust, a term coined by Forrester, picked up a lot of steam. Zero Trust, in its core, is a network architecture and security framework focusing on not having a distinction between external and internal access environments, and never trusting users/roles.
WITH HOLD cursors and transactions in PostgreSQL
This article describes how cursors and transactions interact, how WITH HOLD can overcome the limitations, plus some caveats and tricks.
Diversity, inclusion, and belonging at GitHub in 2021
In the past two years, GitHub has doubled in size, welcoming more than 760 new Hubbers in 2021 alone. This past year we particularly focused on our goal of making GitHub more equitable. We saw growth in our diversity representation, whose population increased at a higher rate than the company itself.
Autonomous testing of services at scale
Enabling developers to prototype, test, and iterate on new features quickly is important to Facebook’s success. To do this effectively, it’s key to have a stable infrastructure that doesn’t introduce unnecessary friction. This gets significantly more challenging when the infrastructure in question must also scale to support more than 3 billion people around the world, […]
Facebook engineers receive 2021 IEEE Computer Society Cybersecurity Award for static analysis tools
Until recently, static analysis tools weren’t seen by our industry as a reliable element of securing code at scale. After nearly a decade of investing in refining these systems, I’m so proud to celebrate our engineering teams today for being awarded the IEEE Computer Society’s Cybersecurity Award for Practice for development and deployment of static […]
Building the Next Evolution of Cloud Networks at Slack – A Retrospective
About a year ago, I wrote a blog post called Building the Next Evolution of Cloud Networks at Slack. In it, we discussed how Slack’s AWS infrastructure has evolved over the years and the pain points that drove us to spin up a brand-new network architecture redesign project called Whitecastle. If you have not had…
Building The SSG I’ve Always Wanted: An 11ty, Vite And JAM Sandwich — Smashing Magazine
Back in January 2020, Ben Holmes set out to do what just about every web developer does each year: rebuild his personal site. In this article, he shares his story of how he set out to build his own build pipeline from absolute ground zero and created [Slinkity](https://slinkity.dev/).
Introducing the Payment Element
Today, we're introducing the Payment Element, an embeddable UI component for your checkout flow that supports 18 payment methods with a single integration.
Backwards-compatibility in Cloudflare Workers
On the Workers team, we have a policy: A change to the Workers Runtime must never break an application that is live in production.
An Interview With Elad Shechter on "The New CSS Reset"
Hey folks! Elad reached out to me to show me his new CSS reset project called the-new-css-reset. It’s quite interesting! I thought a neat way to share it with
What’s new from GitHub Changelog? September 2021 recap
Catch up on 44 ships, including a colorblind-accessible theme, a public README.md for organizations, and customization of code review settings.
Chrome in-the-wild bug analysis: CVE-2021-37975
This post is a technical analysis of a recently disclosed Chrome vulnerability in the garbage collector of v8 (CVE-2021-37975) that was believed to be exploited in the wild. This vulnerability was reported by an anonymous researcher and was patched on September 30, 2021 in Chrome version 94.0.4606.71. I’ll cover the root cause analysis of the bug, as well as detailed exploitation.
Building an awesome image loading experience
How Unsplash's blurred image loading works and why I did mine differently for a more excellent experience on my site.
RTMP Go Away: Lossless reconnections for live streaming
What it is: Real Time Messaging Protocol (RTMP) is a popular media streaming protocol that uses Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) persistent connections. When a connection between a live-streaming client and the platform is interrupted, data from the live event is lost until the client can reconnect to a new server. RTMP Go Away is a […]
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.
Building An API With Gatsby Functions — Smashing Magazine
With server-side and client-side code coexisting in the same code base, front-end developers can extend the reach of what’s possible using the tools they already know and love. In this tutorial, Paul Scanlon explains how to build an API by using Gatsby Functions and what you need to keep in mind when deploying it to Gatsby Cloud.
Smashing Podcast Episode 42 With Jeff Smith: What Is DevOps? — Smashing Magazine
In this episode, we’re talking about DevOps. What is it, and is it a string to add to your web development bow? Drew McLellan talks to expert Jeff Smith to find out.
Crawler Hints Update: Cloudflare Supports IndexNow and Announces General Availability
Crawler Hints now supports IndexNow, a new protocol that allows websites to notify search engines whenever content on their website content is created, updated, or deleted.
Tunnel: Cloudflare’s Newest Homeowner
Starting today, users who deploy and manage Cloudflare Tunnel at scale now have easier visibility into their Tunnel’s respective status, routes, uptime, connectors, cloudflared version, and much more through our new UI in the Cloudflare for Teams Dashboard.
Meet the GitHub Universe hosts, and start building your schedule
We sat down with Universe hosts Lorena Mesa and Jarryd McCree for a quick Q&A to help you make the most out of your conference experience this year.
Solving CLS Issues In A Next.js-Powered E-Commerce Website (Case Study) — Smashing Magazine
Cumulative Layout Shift is one of the hardest core web vital to debug. In this article, we go through different tools to investigate CLS, when to use them(and when not), and solutions to some of the CLS issues we faced in our Next.js-based e-commerce website.
A Simple But Effective Mental Health Routine For Programmers — Smashing Magazine
Maintaining optimal mental health is critical for programmers because most of our work is more mentally demanding than it is physically. However, building and maintaining a reliable and rewarding strategy to maintain a healthy balance in our work demands can be a challenge. In this article, we’ll look at why taking care of our work-life balance is important, how to develop a simple and effective m
Introducing Cloudflare’s Technology Partner Program
We aim to continue expanding our ecosystem of programs and partners to make it seamless for our customers to use Cloudflare.
Kicking Off Cloudflare's Summer 2022 Internship Program
This upcoming summer, we expect to have the largest intern class ever at Cloudflare.
“Look, Ma, no probes!” — Characterizing CDNs’ latencies with passive measurement
In this article we describe an alternative approach to active measurements, which accurately predicts network latencies using only passively collected data.
Geo Key Manager: Setting up a service for scale
Diagnosing scaling issues in a service associated with TLS termination through a deep dive into some of the incidents it caused.
Multi-User IP Address Detection
We’ve devised novel methods to detect multi-user IP addresses, and today we’re excited to announce their integration into our global threat intelligence products. These will improve the quality of our detection techniques and reduce false positives for our customers, and the clients that visit them.
💾 Save the date for GitHub Game Off 2021
Game Off is an annual game jam (or “hackathon for building games”) that’s a little different from most—it lasts for the entire month of November—not just a weekend or a…
Data pipeline asset management with Dataflow - Netflix TechBlog
The problem of managing scheduled workflows and their assets is as old as the use of cron daemon in early Unix operating systems. The design of a cron job is simple, you take some system command, you…
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.
Tips And Tricks For Evaluating UX/UI Designers — Smashing Magazine
Customers may start using your app because you offer a unique product, but user experience is what makes them stay. For that, you need excellent UX designers, and the know-how to spot them when hiring. This article is about the essentials of evaluating potential designers and design agencies you wish to hire. Getting this right is more important than ever.
Research Directions in Password Security
We've been studying password problems, including malicious logins using compromised credentials. Here's what we learned and here's where we think we can go from here with safer password systems.
GraphQL, meet LiveGraph: a real-time data system at scale
How we empower engineers to build real-time data views
Student developer resources you won’t find in the classroom
Heading back to school? Did you just graduate? The GitHub Education Stream Team (GEST) is sharing resources, tools, and more to help emerging developers land a job.
YJIT: Building a New JIT Compiler for CRuby - Shopify
A team of skilled engineers from Shopify and GitHub on YJIT, a new Just-in-time (JIT) compiler built inside CRuby.
Smart CSS Solutions For Common UI Challenges — Smashing Magazine
Writing CSS has probably never been more fun and exciting than it is today. In this post we’ll take a look at common problems and use cases we all have to face in our work and how to solve them with modern CSS. If you’re interested, we’ve also just recently covered [CSS auditing tools](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2021/03/css-auditing-tools/), [CSS generators](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/
Cloudflare and the IETF
Cloudflare helps build a better Internet through collaboration on open and interoperable standards. This post will describe how Cloudflare contributes to the standardization process to enable incremental innovation and drive long-term architectural change.
Pairings in CIRCL
Our Go cryptographic library CIRCL announces support for pairing-based cryptography.
Exported Authenticators: The long road to RFC
Learn more about Exported Authenticators, a new extension to TLS, currently going through the IETF standardisation process.
Coalescing Connections to Improve Network Privacy and Performance
Real world experiments for evaluating connection coalescing effects.
Bonsai Browser
Web-browser for research that helps programmers think clearly.
Less Absolute Positioning With Modern CSS
Ahmad Shadeed blogs the sentiment that we might not need to lean on position: absolute as much as we might have in the past. For one thing: stacking elements.
How Remix makes CSS clashes predictable
Remix has this beautifully simple feature for CSS that I want to tell you all about.
Looking at the outlying data points
Upcoming Live Workshops On Front-End & UX (Oct 2021–Jan 2022) — Smashing Magazine
Do you like a good interface design challenge? What about accessibility testing and design systems? Or maybe Next.js and advanced CSS? With our [new online workshops](https://smashingconf.com/online-workshops/) on front-end & design, we cover all of it. Below you’ll find a schedule of what’s coming up next. Ah, and [here
Introducing SSL/TLS Recommender
Introducing customized recommendations to improve the security of your website.
Handshake Encryption: Endgame (an ECH update)
In this post, we’ll dig into ECH details and describe what this protocol does to move the needle to help build a better Internet.
Dynamic Process Isolation: Research by Cloudflare and TU Graz
Cloudflare worked with TU Graz to study the impact of Spectre on Cloudflare Workers and to develop new defenses against it. Today we're publishing a paper about our research.
WooCommerce + Google Analytics
Google Analytics is powerful analytics software. A common way to use it is to just slap the JavaScript snippet on every page template you have and let it
Apply now for GitHub Universe 2021 micro-mentoring
As part of our ongoing commitment to ensure GitHub’s conferences are accessible and inclusive to people from all walks of life, we’re offering 30-minute, 1:1 micro-mentoring sessions with GitHub employees.
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Useful React APIs For Building Flexible Components With TypeScript — Smashing Magazine
React with JSX is a fantastic tool for making easy-to-use components. Typescript components make it an absolute pleasure for developers to integrate your components into their apps and explore your APIs. Learn about three lesser-known React APIs that can take your components to the next level, and help you build even better React Components in this article.
Bridging The Gap Between Designers And Developers — Smashing Magazine
UXPin has recently launched a new feature called “Merge”. This tool aims to break through the chasms of design and development, all while improving the agility and quality our teams expect. This new technology may cause some rethink on how the whole design team and engineering team collaborates.
