Reliability stuff worth reading
Smashing Podcast Episode 54 With Stéphanie Walter: What Is User Journey Mapping? — Smashing Magazine
In this episode we’re talking about User Journey Mapping. What is it, and how does it help us build better digital products? Vitaly talks to expert Stéphanie Walter to find out.
How we built it: the technology behind Cloudflare Radar 2.0
Radar 2.0 was launched last month during Cloudflare's Birthday Week as a complete product revamp. This blog explains how we built it technically. Hopefully, it will inspire other developers to build complex web apps using Cloudflare products.
Spice up your sites on Cloudflare Pages with Pages Functions General Availability
Pages is officially a full stack platform with Pages Functions now Generally Available. Pages is harnessing the power and scalability of Workers and specializing them to align with the Pages developer experience.
The most programmable Supercloud with Cloudflare Snippets
Today we are announcing Cloudflare Snippets. Snippets are a simple way of executing a small piece of Javascript on select HTTP requests, using the ruleset engine filtering logic.
Server-side render full stack applications with Pages Functions
Page Functions are now out of beta, bringing the ability to add dynamic server-side rendering to your applications. Pages makes it easy to deploy applications built using all the major frameworks.
Keep track of Workers’ code and configuration changes with Deployments
Today we’re happy to announce Deployments for Workers. Deployments allow developers to audit changes made to their applications.
Announcing the first Workers Launchpad cohort and growth of the program to $2 billion
Announcing the Fall 2022 cohort of 25 Workers Launchpad startups and growth of the program from $1.25BN to $2BN
How Cloudflare uses Terraform to manage Cloudflare
Cloudflare uses the Cloudflare Terraform provider extensively to make changes to our internal accounts as easy as opening a pull request.
Incremental adoption of micro-frontends with Cloudflare Workers
With Cloudflare Workers, our fragment-based micro-frontend architecture, and fragment piercing technique, engineering teams can incrementally improve large frontends in a fraction of the time, yielding significant user and developer experience gains.
Creating a Settings UI for a Custom WordPress Block
So far, we’ve covered how to work with data from an external API in a custom WordPress block. We walked through the process of fetching that data for use on
A conversation with Figma's accessibility team
What they’ve learned from the community and their vision for what’s ahead
Octoverse 2022: 10 years of tracking open source
How is open source changing the world and impacting businesses? In this year’s Octoverse report, we identified three big trends to watch.
Missing the point completely
What We Learned from Open-Sourcing FlashList - Shopify
Here's how we launched the React Native List library FlashList as an open-source project, and how you can make your next open-source project a success.
A Guide To Image Optimization On Jamstack Sites — Smashing Magazine
In this article, Alba Silvente shows us the theoretical and practical solutions to the most common problems when working with images and how to automate them by using a headless CMS and an image CDN.
Making static sites dynamic with Cloudflare D1
In this blog post, I'll show you how to use D1 to add comments to a static blog site. To do this, we'll construct a new D1 database and build a simple JSON API that allows the creation and retrieval of comments.
The Cloudflare API now uses OpenAPI schemas
Cloudflare now has OpenAPI Schemas available for the API. Users can use these schemas in any open source OpenAPI Tooling.
UPDATE Supercloud SET status = 'open alpha' WHERE product = 'D1';
As we continue down the road to making D1 production ready, it wouldn’t be “the Cloudflare way” unless we stopped for feedback first. D1 is now in Open Alpha!
Bringing authentication and identification to Workers through Mutual TLS
We’re excited to announce that Workers will soon be able to send outbound requests through a mutually authenticated channel via mutual TLS authentication!
Xata Workers: client-side database access without client-side secrets
Xata is on a mission to solve the industry’s hardest data problems with their Serverless Data Platform. We’re excited to have Xata building their serverless functions product – Xata Workers – on top of Workers for Platforms. Here is Xata’s story.
Automate an isolated browser instance with just a few lines of code
Workers Browser Rendering API is our out-of-the-box solution for simplifying developer workflows, including capturing images or screenshots, by running browser automation in Workers. If you’re interested, sign up for the waitlist.
Iteration isn't just for code: here are our latest API docs
We’re excited to share that the next iteration of Cloudflare’s API reference documentation is now available. The new docs standardize our API content and improve the overall developer experience for interacting with Cloudflare’s API.
Move faster, wait less: Improving code review time at Meta
Code reviews are one of the most important parts of the software development process At Meta we’ve recognized the need to make code reviews as fast as possible without sacrificing quality We’re sharing several tools and steps we’ve taken at Meta to reduce the time waiting for code reviews When done well, code reviews can […]
Using Automated Test Results To Improve Accessibility — Smashing Magazine
In this article, Noah Mashni and Mark Steadman share their approach to how to leverage the automated test results from the accessibility checks to drive change and reach sustainable digital accessibility transformation.
Reduce origin load, save on cloud egress fees, and maximize cache hits with Cache Reserve
Today we’re extremely excited to announce that Cache Reserve is graduating to open beta – users will now be able to test it and integrate it into their content delivery strategy without any additional waiting
Migrate from S3 easily with the R2 Super Slurper
Today we're announcing the R2 Super Slurper, the tool that will enable you to migrate all your data to R2 in a simple and efficient way
Store and process your Cloudflare Logs... with Cloudflare
Today we’re announcing Cloudflare Logs Engine — a new system that will enable you to do anything you need with Cloudflare Logs, all within Cloudflare
Indexing millions of HTTP requests using Durable Objects
A deep-dive into how Cloudflare uses Durable Objects and the Streams API to index millions of HTTP requests stored in R2
Get started with Cloudflare Workers with ready-made templates
Today, we’re excited to share a collection of ready-made templates to help you build your next application on Cloudflare Workers
Easy Postgres integration on Cloudflare Workers with Neon.tech
Neon.tech is a database platform that allows you to branch your (Postgres compatible) database exactly like your code repository. And with the release of their Cloudflare Workers integration you can get started in minutes
EXPLAIN that parameterized statement in PostgreSQL!
EXPLAIN (ANALYZE, BUFFERS) output is hard to get for a parameterized statement in PostgreSQL. With a few tricks we can get EXPLAIN output.
The power of GitHub in the palm of your hand
GitHub Mobile helps keep work going while you’re going. Untether yourself from your office.
A better way to search, navigate, and understand code on GitHub
Reading code is a hugely important task for developers. That’s why we built GitHub’s new code search—to help developers search, navigate, and understand code written by them, their team, and the world.
The journey of your work has never been clearer
In July, we launched the general availability of GitHub Projects, and now we are excited to bring you even more features designed to make it easier to plan and track in the same place you build!
Sapling: Source control that’s user-friendly and scalable
Sapling is a new Git-compatible source control client. Sapling emphasizes usability while also scaling to the largest repositories in the world. ReviewStack is a demonstration code review UI for GitHub pull requests that integrates with Sapling to make reviewing stacks of commits easy. You can get started using Sapling today. Source control is one of […]
Caching Without Marshal Part 2: The Path to MessagePack - Shopify
Shopify wanted a cache format that would not blow up when we shipped code changes. Part two of Caching Without Marshal describes the MessagePack format, and how we migrated to MessagePack.
Welcome to the Supercloud (and Developer Week 2022)
Every developer wants to get code running on one machine and perfect it. It’s so much easier to work that way. We just happen to have one machine that scales to the size of the Internet: a global, distributed, supercomputer. It’s our Supercloud, and we build our own products on it, and you can too
The road to a more standards-compliant Workers API
We have been making improvements in the Workers runtime to increase alignment with Web Platform standards around event handling, task cancellation using AbortController, text encoding and decoding, URL parsing and pattern matching, and streams support.
Build applications of any size on Cloudflare with the Queues open beta
Cloudflare Queues enables developers to build performant and resilient distributed applications that span the globe. Any developer with a paid Workers plan can enroll in the Open Beta and start building today!
Cloudflare Workers scale too well and broke our infrastructure, so we are rebuilding it on Workers
DevCycle re-architected their feature management tool using Workers for improved scalability
Classy and Cool Custom CSS Scrollbars: A Showcase
In this article we will be diving into the world of scrollbars. I know, it doesn’t sound too glamorous, but trust me, a well-designed page goes hand-in-hand
A Guide To Keyboard Accessibility: HTML And CSS (Part 1) — Smashing Magazine
In this article, Cristian Diaz covers how to use HTML and CSS to create an accessible experience for keyboard users while mentioning what WCAG criteria we should keep into consideration.
A Guide To Test-Driven Development Using Node.js — Smashing Magazine
This article is aimed at both beginners and intermediates who use or just started using Node.js for server side development. At the end of this article, you’ll be able to understand the Test-Driven Development process and use it for your own projects.
2022 US midterm elections attack analysis
For Athenian Project and Cloudflare for Campaigns participant websites, overall traffic volume ramped as Election Day approached
CSS Grid and Custom Shapes, Part 3
After Part 1 and Part 2, I am back with a third article to explore more fancy shapes. Like the previous articles, we are going to combine CSS Grid with
Tether's Troubles in November 2022
Tether's November 2022 attestation, even if believed, strongly suggests it blew up (again) during the recent crypto route.
Caching Without Marshal Part 1: Marshal from the Inside Out - Shopify
Shopify wanted a cache format that would not blow up when we shipped code changes. Part one of Caching Without Marshal describes Marshal, Ruby’s ultimate sharp knife, able to transform almost any object into a binary blob and back.
How To Search For A Developer Job Abroad — Smashing Magazine
Working abroad is a popular prospect, yet many people — including professionals in the tech sphere — don’t know where to start. In this article, Andrew Stetsenko gives you an ultimate step-by-step guide to finding and making international opportunities happen.
Taking cues from code
Schema keynote speaker and product manager Jacob Miller shares his thoughts on the state of design systems.
Introducing GitHub Actions Importer
GitHub Actions Importer helps you forecast, plan, and facilitate migrations from your current CI/CD tool to GitHub Actions.
What’s new with Codespaces from GitHub Universe 2022
We’re giving GitHub users 60 free hours each month on Codespaces. Learn what else we shipped for Codespaces at Universe this year.
Getting it or not getting it, and then what?
Protecting election groups during the 2022 US midterm elections
We at Cloudflare are proud to be able to play a role in helping safeguard the integrity of the electoral process. Through our Impact programs, we provide cyber security products to help protect access
Todas as novidades do GitHub Universe 2022
Read this post in English Veja o que estamos construindo para aprimorar a plataforma de desenvolvimento mais integrada e que permite que pessoas desenvolvedoras e empresas impulsionem a inovação com…
An open source economy–built by developers, for developers
Investing in our open source future by supporting the maintainers of today.
Everything new from GitHub Universe 2022
See what we’re building to enhance the most integrated developer platform that allows developers and enterprises to drive innovation with ease.
Understanding the social impact of open source technologies
Here’s how nonprofits and the social sector are using open source to drive social good.
The changing nature of governmental policies around open source
In 2022, governments and the policy community spent a lot of time thinking about open source. Here’s what that means and why it matters.
