Contributing to open source at GitHub
A software engineer’s personal journey to becoming an open source contributor.
How to send raw network packets in Python with tun/tap
How to send raw network packets in Python with tun/tap
A review of my time at Remix
As I move on to my next adventure, I want to take this opportunity to review what I accomplished while at Remix.
Viewing the world as a computer: Global capacity management
Meta currently operates 14 data centers around the world. This rapidly expanding global data center footprint poses new challenges for service owners and for our infrastructure management systems. Systems like Twine, which we use to scale cluster management, and RAS, which handles perpetual region-wide resource allocation, have provided the abstractions and automation necessary for service […] Rea
Recommend API
Slack, as a product, presents many opportunities for recommendation, where we can make suggestions to simplify the user experience and make it more delightful. Each one seems like a terrific use case for machine learning, but it isn’t realistic for us to create a bespoke solution for each. Instead, we developed a unified framework we…
The Realities And Myths Of Contrast And Color — Smashing Magazine
In this article, Andrew Somers, a 35-year veteran of the Hollywood film and television industry, shares his experience about the hard-fought battles and lessons learned designing for illuminated presentations.
Smashing Podcast Episode 52 With Yiying Lu: How Do You Become An NFT Artist? — Smashing Magazine
In this episode of the Smashing Podcast, we ask how do you go from running a creative studio to designing NFTs. Vitaly talks to artist Yiying Lu to find out.
Improving the accuracy of our machine learning WAF using data augmentation and sampling
Data Generation and Augmentation methods to train an effective machine learning WAF
Flutter For Front-End Web Developers
I started as a front-end web developer and then became a Flutter developer. I think there were some concepts that helped me adopt Flutter easier. There were
Meet Understanding Privacy, A New Smashing Book By Heather Burns — Smashing Magazine
Meet “Understanding Privacy”, our upcoming book on what data privacy is really about beyond scary headlines. Approx. 350 pages. eBook available in October, print shipping in early December.
Blocking Kiwifarms
We have blocked Kiwifarms. Visitors to any of the Kiwifarms sites that use any of Cloudflare's services will see a Cloudflare block page and a link to this post.
Log analytics using ClickHouse
When a request at Cloudflare throws an error, information gets logged in our requests_error pipeline. The error logs are used to help troubleshoot customer-specific or network-wide issues
Release Radar
We’ve been gearing up to launch GitHub Universe 2022 and our community has been launching cool projects left right and center. These projects include everything from world-changing technology to developer…
Git’s database internals V: scalability
This fifth and final part of our blog series exploring Git’s internals shows several strategies for scaling your Git repositories that match related database sharding techniques.
The Accessibility And Usability Journey Of Drupal’s Primary Navigation — Smashing Magazine
In this article, Mike Herchel covers Drupal’s new default theme, Olivero, which is usable, accessible, robust, and beautiful and will help you improve websites’ navigation systems.
At Next.js Conf 2022, learn to build better and scale faster
Next.js Conf 2022: Presented by Vercel
iShadeed's Container Queries Lab
Ahmad Shadeed got an early jump on container queries and has a growing collection of examples based on everyday patterns.
Futurist prediction methods and accuracy
GitHub Actions: introducing the new, larger GitHub-hosted runners beta
Now your team can spend less time managing infrastructure and more time writing code.
Git’s database internals IV: distributed synchronization
We’re examining Git’s internals to help make your engineering system more efficient. This post views Git as a distributed database and looks into its synchronization techniques, specifically ‘git fetch’ and ‘git push’.
Focus On Behavior, Not State, for a More Maintainable Codebase - Shopify
This post is about how we moved from focusing on state (what an object is) towards behavior (what an object does) while building our Purchase Options APIs as a way to create a more maintainable codebase.
Databases For Front-End Developers: The Concepts Under The Hood (Part 2) — Smashing Magazine
In the second part of “Databases For Front-End Developers” series, Atila Fassina explores concepts to equip you to have your own opinions about which kinds of databases suit your specific needs.
Useful JavaScript Data Grid Libraries — Smashing Magazine
In this article, Zara Cooper provides a rundown of some popular data grid libraries that would be a great addition to any data-heavy application and shares recommendations on what factors to consider when choosing a suitable data grid library.
From Development to Real Users: How to Create a Web Performance Story
Some of the most common questions asked when it comes to work with performance are, How do you convince stakeholders that improving the performance of your project is actually worth the investment? How can you prove that the work is necessary to begin with? Or prove that you have shipped improvements? And what is the impact of certain changes on users in different scenarios?
Lessons Learned from Algorithmic Impact Assessments in Practice
TL;DR Understanding algorithmic impact is critical to building a platform that serves hundreds of millions of listeners and creators every day. Our approach includes a combination of centralized and distributed efforts, which drives adoption of best practices across the entire organization — from researchers and data scientists to the engineer pushing the code.
Scaling Translations at Spotify
Last year, we added support for 36 new languages to our products in one go, for a total of 62 languages. This article describes how we delivered on such an immense localization effort at Spotify. We called the project Scaling Translations.
What you can expect at GitHub Universe 2022: cloud, security, community, and AI
Register now to attend GitHub Universe virtually or in-person at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco on November 9-10.
Git’s database internals III: file history queries
Git’s file history queries use specialized algorithms that are tailored to common developer behavior. Level up your history spelunking skills by learning how different history modes behave and which ones to use when you need them.
BuildRock: A Build Platform at Slack
Our build platform is an essential piece of delivering code to production efficiently and safely at Slack. Over time it has undergone a lot of changes, and in 2021 the Build team started looking at the long-term vision. Some questions the Build team wanted to answer were: When should we invest in modernizing our build…
Finding The Balance (September 2022 Desktop Wallpapers Edition) — Smashing Magazine
Let’s welcome September with some fresh desktop wallpapers. Designed by artists and designers from across the globe, they come in versions with and without a calendar for the month. Enjoy!
Introducing thresholds in Security Event Alerting: a z-score love story
Today we are excited to announce thresholds for our Security Event Alerts: a new and improved way of detecting anomalous spikes of security events on your Internet properties. By introducing a threshold, we are able to make alerts more accurate and only notify you when it truly matters
Interpolating Numeric CSS Variables
We can make variables in CSS pretty easily:
Uploading file data in a performant manner
Learn how to upload files to Dropbox using the Dropbox API in a performant manner
What’s new in Figma: August 2022
A round-up of updates and improvements to Figma and FigJam
Git’s database internals II: commit history queries
This post explores Git commit history as a database where ‘git log’ is the query language. Learn about Git’s custom query index – the commit-graph file – and how to make sure it’s enabled in your repositories.
Understanding useMemo and useCallback
What's the deal with these two hooks?! Lots of devs find them confusing, for a whole host of reasons. In this tutorial, we'll dig deep and understand what they do, why they're useful, and how to get the most out of them.
Some ways to get better at debugging
Some ways to get better at debugging
RailsConf 2022: 10 Shopify Tech Talks You Might Have Missed - Shopify
Watch Shopify's tech talent tackle topics ranging from virtual machines, performance improvements, and investing in open source teams at RailsConf 2022
How To Improve And Measure Your Progress Learning Web Design — Smashing Magazine
Ever felt overwhelmed by the number of things you need to learn? Today, we look at how [Uxcel](https://uxcel.com/) eases this transition and approaches actively learning new skills to take our careers to the next level.
Git’s database internals I: packed object store
This blog series will examine Git’s internals to help make your engineering system more efficient. Part I discusses how Git stores its data in packfiles using custom compression techniques.
Improving Meta’s SLO workflows with data annotations
When we focus on minimizing errors and downtime here at Meta, we place a lot of attention on service-level indicators (SLIs) and service-level objectives (SLOs). Consider Instagram, for example. There, SLIs represent metrics from different product surfaces, like the volume of error response codes to certain endpoints, or the number of successful media uploads. Based […]
Echo reply (an incomplete update on things)
What Makes A Great Toggle Button? (Case Study, Part 2) — Smashing Magazine
The problem of how to design an effective toggle button that shows the selected option clearly is a long-term open question among UI/UX designers. In this second part, Eduard Kuric explains a complex list of visual cues used by toggle buttons to communicate which of their options is active.
How SZA and Integral Studio create at the moment of inspiration
In 2017, Integral Studio chose Vercel & Next.js to create a site that would mirror the creativity of then-up-and-coming artist, SZA. To celebrate the 5-year anniversary and re-release of her Grammy-winning album, they once again turned to Vercel.
Performance isolation in a multi-tenant database environment
Enforcing stricter performance isolation across neighboring tenants who rely on our storage infrastructure
Open sourcing our fork of PgBouncer
We are releasing our internal fork of PgBouncer, filled with authentication bug fixes and new features around per user and connection pool isolation
3 ways every company can get started with an open-source software strategy
The future of software development does not exist without open source. However, to maintain today’s software and create the software of the future, the largest organizations and beneficiaries of open source need to expand their collaboration with the community and help it grow.
When Culture and Code Reviews Collide, Communication is Key - Shopify
To prevent a misunderstanding, it’s important for developers to understand how different cultures approach reviewing codes, and how diverse teams can establish healthier communication practices when giving and receiving feedback.
WebAssembly at the Edge
Historical announcement for WebAssembly support at the edge, updated with current guidance for Vercel Functions and the WebAssembly runtime reference.
Deep dives & how the Internet works
We have amazing deep dives in our blog, but also research and how the Internet works kind of stories. Here are some highlights from 2022, and before (with glimpses of our history).
Keeping your skillset fresh as a developer
Whether you’re committing 30 minutes or 3 hours a day to learning, consistency is key. Klint Finley asks 3 tech professionals at different stages in their career for more advice.
Introducing Trilogy: a new database adapter for Ruby on Rails
We’ve open sourced Trilogy, the database adapter we use to connect Ruby on Rails to MySQL-compatible database servers.
Open Source Monthly: August 2022 Edition
This month’s featured open source project, Open Sauced, connects contributors and maintainers through analytical insights.
Shopify Data’s Guide To Opportunity Sizing - Shopify
Shopify’s guide to Opportunity Sizing, a method that data scientists can use to quantify the potential impact of an initiative ahead of making the decision to invest in it.
Designing Better Error Messages UX — Smashing Magazine
Error messages need to be easy to spot, but they also need to be helpful. Let’s explore when error messages should live above input fields and why toast error messages are usually not a very good idea.
Better Video Streaming With imgix — Smashing Magazine
If you need to deliver a large number of images and videos, a solution like [imgix](https://imgix.com/?utm_medium=banner&utm_source=smashingmag&utm_campaign=video-api-smashingmag-article-2022-08) can optimize and process both types of assets without you having to build it from the ground up or cobble together different solutions. Let’s take a closer look at how.
Removing jQuery from GOV.UK
The GOV.UK team recently published "How and why we removed jQuery from GOV.UK". This was an insightful look at how an organization can assess its tooling and
OpenID Connect Released in Preview
Learn how to Dropbox as an OpenID Connect provider
The full lineup for Git Merge 2022 revealed
We are pleased to announce the full lineup of talks and workshops for this year’s Git Merge conference in Chicago. 17 talks, 3 workshops, 1 panel, and some great company!
How We Built Oxygen: Hydrogen’s Counterpart for Hosting Custom Storefronts - Shopify
The story of Oxygen, Hydrogen’s counterpart that makes hosting Hydrogen custom storefronts easy and seamless on Shopify.