An Interactive Starry Backdrop for Content
I was fortunate last year to get approached by Shawn Wang (swyx) about doing some work for Temporal. The idea was to cast my creative eye over what was on the
Securing and delivering high-quality code with innersource metrics
With innersource, it’s important to measure both the amount of innersource activity and the quality of the code being created. Here’s how.
Double Entry Transition Tables: How We Track State Changes At Shopify - Shopify
Explore how Shopify built a data pipeline using double entry transition tables to answer the question: how many Shopify merchants are using Shopify Balance?
Integrating Network Analytics Logs with your SIEM dashboard
We’re excited to announce the availability of Network Analytics Logs for maximum visibility into L3/4 traffic and DDoS attacks
Debugging Hardware Performance on Gen X Servers
In Cloudflare’s global network, every server runs the whole software stack. Therefore, it's critical that every server performs to its maximum potential capacity
Announcing our Spring Developer Challenge
After many announcements from Platform Week, we’re thrilled to make one more: our Spring Developer Challenge!
The Surprising Truth About Pixels and Accessibility
“Should I use pixels or rems?”. In this comprehensive blog post, we'll answer this question once and for all. You'll learn about the accessibility implications, and how to determine the best unit to use in any scenario.
Smashing Podcast Episode 46 With Vitaly Friedman: Who Is Elliot Jay Stocks? — Smashing Magazine
In this episode, we ask how one man can go from designing websites for local bands to heading up Google Fonts Knowledge. Smashing’s Vitaly Friedman talks to Elliot Jay Stocks to find out.
The Modern Way To Create And Host A WordPress Site — Smashing Magazine
Web design should be fun and accessible for anyone. After all, when we build a new website, our primary goal is to share our idea, product, or service with the world, not to dive into solving technical problems. Let’s take a closer look at how you can create your very own WordPress site up and running created and hosted with the [Elementor Cloud Website](https://elementor.com/features/cloud/?utm_s
Network performance update: Platform Week
We’re sharing updated performance metrics on our Workers platform. We’ve done an extensive benchmark of Cloudflare Workers vs Fastly’s Compute@Edge.
How Ramadan shows up in Internet trends
What happens to the Internet traffic in countries who observe Ramadan? Depending on the country, we see clear shifts and changing patterns in Internet use, particularly before dawn and after sunset.
Proof of Stake and our next experiments in web3
Cloudflare is going to participate in the research and development of the core infrastructure that helps keep Ethereum secure, fast, as well as energy efficient for everyone
Public access for our Ethereum and IPFS gateways now available
Today we are excited to announce that our Ethereum and IPFS gateways are publicly available to all Cloudflare customers for the first time
Serving Cloudflare Pages sites to the IPFS network
Today, we're announcing we're bridging the two. We will make it possible for our customers to serve their sites on the IPFS network
Gaining visibility in IPFS systems
We've developed the IPFS Gateway monitor, an observability tool that runs various IPFS scenarios on a given gateway endpoint.
Fighting the forces of clock skew when syncing password payloads
How to measure innersource across your organization
The innersource contribution percentage is the rate of contributions from people outside the team that originally authored the software. Let’s dive into what it can look like for your organization.
How we’re using projects to build projects
At GitHub we use GitHub to build our own products, and the new projects experience is no different. Check out how our team uses projects to build powerful project planning for developers.
GitHub Achieves ISO/IEC 27001:2013 Certification!
GitHub’s Information Security Management System (ISMS) has been certified against ISO 27001:2013, an internationally recognized standard for security program best practices.
Shopify Invests in Research for Ruby at Scale - Shopify
Shopify is investing on Ruby on Rails at scale by funding high-profile academics to focus their work towards Ruby and the needs of the Ruby community.
Rethinking Server-Timing As A Critical Monitoring Tool — Smashing Magazine
What makes the underused `Server-Timing` header uniquely powerful among all other response headers? We’ll rethink the expectation for using it exclusively for timing and see fast solutions for hard-to-solve monitoring challenges. In this article, Sean Roberts will provide you with a new perspective on Server-Timing as a tool to reach for, even if you’re not measuring time.
Part 1: Rethinking Cache Purge, Fast and Scalable Global Cache Invalidation
This is Part 1 of what will be a year-long series documenting our journey to re-architect our systems to be the best, fastest, most-scalable purge in the industry
Announcing the Cloudflare Images Sourcing Kit
Migrating millions of images into Cloudflare is now simple, fast and at the distance of a few clicks. The new Cloudflare Images Sourcing Kit Allows you to define your image sources, reuse them when you need to add new images or refresh existing ones
Send email using Workers with MailChannels
MailChannels has created an email sending service specifically for Cloudflare Workers that removes all the friction associated with sending emails
Route to Workers, automate your email processing
With Cloudflare Workers and Email Routing you now have a developer platform to implement any logic you ever wanted for programmatically handling incoming Emails.
Closed Caption support coming to Stream Live
Soon, Stream will auto-detect embedded captions and include it in the live stream delivered to your viewers
Stream with sub-second latency is like a magical HDMI cable to the cloud
Starting today, in open beta, Cloudflare Stream supports video playback with sub-second latency over SRT or RTMPS at scale
Bring your own ingest domain to Stream Live
Starting today, every Stream account can configure its own domain in the Stream dashboard.
Cloudflare Stream simplifies creator management for creator platforms
Many Stream customers track video usage on a per-creator basis. Today, we are announcing creator management to make usage tracking much easier
Maestro: The Orchestration Language Powering Shopify Flow - Shopify
An overview of Shopify Flow's new orchestration language Maestro, highlighting its design and implementation as well as how neatly it integrates with and addresses the requirements.
Top Tasks: To Focus On What Matters You Must De-Focus On What Doesn’t — Smashing Magazine
We waste so much today. One way of focusing on what truly matters is by identifying Top Tasks for yourself. In this article, Gerry McGovern will show you how to make tough decisions by focusing on the real, quantifiable evidence that will help create a better experience for your users.
Announcing Pub/Sub: Programmable MQTT-based Messaging
Announcing the beta of Cloudflare Pub/Sub, our programmable, serverless message broker built on the open MQTT messaging standard
How we built config staging and versioning with HTTP applications
Learn how we built config versioning and staging for L7 configuration with HTTP Applications
Introducing Custom Domains for Workers
Custom Domains are now available for your Workers. Hook up a Worker to any domain you own, and Cloudflare will handle making DNS records and issuing certificates on your behalf
Our growing Developer Platform partner ecosystem
Cloudflare’s Developer Platform Ecosystem continues to expand ensuring you can integrate with the tools you use, or want to use
Magic NAT: everywhere, unbounded, and lower cost
Today, we’re delighted to introduce a new approach to NAT that solves the problems of traditional hardware and virtual solutions
Introducing Workers Analytics Engine
Workers Analytics Engine is a new way to get telemetry about anything using Cloudflare Workers. Workers Analytics Engine provides time series analytics built for the serverless era
Introducing Pages Plugins
Introducing Pages Plugins – reusable and customizable chunks of runtime code that can be incorporated anywhere within your Pages application. Try one of the officially supported Plugins from our partners or build your own
sqlite-utils: a nice way to import data into SQLite for analysis
sqlite-utils: a nice way to import data into SQLite for analysis
How To Use Google CrUX To Analyze And Compare The Performance Of JS Frameworks — Smashing Magazine
Google collects performance information from millions of opted-in Chrome browsers around the world and uses this information as a performance ranking factor for its search engine. But it also makes this information freely available so that anyone can use it to check the real-world performance of individual websites. Even more significantly, it’s possible to segment this data according to the techn
Announcing D1: our first SQL database
Today, we’re excited to announce D1, Cloudflare’s first SQL database, designed for Cloudflare Workers
A New Hope for Object Storage: R2 enters open beta
R2 Object Storage is now in open beta, available for all customers to test and deploy!
Introducing Cache Reserve: massively extending Cloudflare’s cache
I’m delighted to announce an extension of the benefits of caching with Cache Reserve: a new way to persistently serve all static content from Cloudflare’s global cache
Logs on R2: slash your logging costs
You shouldn’t have to make trade-offs between keeping logs that you need and managing tight budgets. R2’s low costs makes this decision easier and now you can use Logpush to store logs on R2.
Durable Objects Alarms — a wake-up call for your applications
Durable Object alarms let you call a function at a defined point in the future, unlocking deeper use-cases for Durable Objects like reliable queuing
Figma Community Awards 2022
Announcing the winners of the first-ever Figma Community Awards
Graduation is here! Celebrate the Class of 2022, and join GitHub on June 11 🎓
This year, thousands of students from around the world came together and redefined the world we live in, how we learn, and how we move forward. We are honored to…
Open Source Monthly – May 2022 Edition
Introduction Open Sauced, GitHub’s Explore page, Hacktoberfest, and First Timers Only help folks discover open source projects. This monthly series–Open Source Monthly—will add to these efforts by helping: First-time contributors…
Meta Open Source is transferring Jest to the OpenJS Foundation
Meta Open Source is officially transferring Jest, its open source JavaScript testing framework, to the OpenJS Foundation. With over 17 million weekly downloads and over 38,000 GitHub stars, Jest is the most used testing framework in the JavaScript ecosystem and is used by companies of all sizes, including Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Stripe. We believe […]
Our Experience Porting the YJIT Ruby Compiler to Rust - Shopify
In this post, I want to give a nuanced perspective on our experience porting YJIT from C to Rust. I'll talk about the positives, but also discuss the things that we found challenging or suboptimal in our experience.
How Even Small UX Changes Can Result In An Increase In Conversion (A Case Study) — Smashing Magazine
In this article, Denis Studennikov will be taking a closer look at a design case study and discuss possible reasons why its customers abandon their online shopping carts and what solutions are recommended in each particular case.
Announcing Workers for Platforms: making every application on the Internet more programmable
Announcing Workers for Platforms, our tool suite to help make any product programmable, and help our customers deliver value to their customers and developers instantaneously
Service Bindings are generally available, with efficient pricing
Service bindings are an API that facilitate Worker-to-Worker communication. You can invoke other Workers directly from your code; making it possible to communicate with shared services. We’ll also make it cost-efficient to run multiple Workers
Workers visibility: announcing Logpush for Worker’s Trace Events
Customers are using Cloudlfare Workers to create the next big thing, we’re building tools to make that happen successfully. We’re excited to announce Logpush for Worker’s Trace Events, making it easier than ever to gain visibility into applications built on Workers
A new era for Cloudflare Pages builds
Announcing several build experience improvements for Cloudflare Pages including build times, logging and configuration
Watching Eurovision 2022 on Cloudflare Radar
This year, for the 66th edition, we have a dedicated page for Eurovision fans, journalists or anyone interested in following Internet trends related to the event taking place in Turin, Italy.
Introducing Direct Uploads for Cloudflare Pages
Pages now supports direct uploads to give you more power to build and iterate how you want and with the tools you want
Time zone management in PostgreSQL
Time zone management and timestamp data types in PostgreSQL - learn how to use 'timestamp with time zone' correctly and optimize performance.
Enhanced 2FA experience for your npm account
Late last year, in response to an unprecedented series of account takeovers resulting from the compromise of developer accounts without 2FA enabled, we committed to a variety of enhancements to…
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