Building companies means building careers: why I joined Cloudflare as Chief People Officer
We're excited to introduce Michele Yetman as Cloudflare's new Chief People Officer
Data locality: Scaling PostgreSQL with Citus intelligently
How to use data locality to increase performance while sharding PostgreSQL data with Citus. What is database locality
GitHub Availability Report: August 2023
In August, we experienced two incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.
Apply now for GitHub Universe 2023 micro-mentoring
As part of our ongoing commitment to accelerate human progress through Social Impact initiatives, we’re offering students 30-minute, 1:1 micro-mentoring sessions with GitHub employees ahead of Universe.
Facilitating Inclusive Online Workshops (Part 1) — Smashing Magazine
Running a workshop can be an effective alternative to traditional, long-standing meetings. To help ensure its success, Ben Shih introduces the concept of an inclusive workshop. In Part 1 of the series, you discover the fundamentals of inclusivity and get some solid guidance on how to plan an inclusive remote workshop.
Monitoring PostgreSQL replication
How to monitor replication lag in PostgreSQL? What is replication lag? And how to best go about monitoring PostgreSQL replication in general?
CodeQL team uses AI to power vulnerability detection in code
Learn how GitHub’s CodeQL leveraged AI modeling and multi-repository variant analysis to discover a new CVE in Gradle.
Meta Quest 2: Defense through offense
Meta’s Native Assurance team regularly performs manual code reviews as part of our ongoing commitment to improve the security posture of Meta’s products. In 2021, we discovered a vulnerability in the Meta Quest 2’s Android-based OS that never made it to production but helped us find new ways to improve the security of Meta Quest […]
How to remove roadblocks to create better developer workflow and experience
The way your team builds software matters: Create a developer experience that promotes iteration
Vercel achieves ISO 27001:2013 certification to further strengthen commitment to security
Vercel achieves the ISO 27001 certification validating that our information security practices adhere to globally accepted standards.
Citus: Sharding your first table
Here’s how to shard a table from scratch with Citus. Scale PostgreSQL DBs using a sharding approach. How to run a Citus Docker container.
Building a ShopifyQL Code Editor - Shopify
In October 2022, Shopify released ShopifyQL Notebooks, a first-party app that lets merchants analyze their shop data to make better decisions. It puts the power of ShopifyQL into merchants’ hands with a guided code editing experience. In order to provide a first-class editing experience, we turned to CodeMirror, a code editor framework built for the web. Out of the box, CodeMirror didn’t have supp
Gradients, Blend Modes, And A Really Cool Hover Effect — Smashing Magazine
Gradients are a powerful CSS feature. We use them for texture, depth, and even to hide parts of elements with CSS masking. This article covers another interesting way to use gradients — as a hover effect that affects the appearance of other elements around the hovered element.
How the at-home workout sensation, Hydrow, cut authoring times from weeks to minutes
Elevate load balancing with Private IPs and Cloudflare Tunnels: a secure path to efficient traffic distribution
We are extremely excited to announce a new addition to our Load Balancing solution, Private Network Load Balancing with deep integrations with Zero Trust!
Rediscovering The Joy Of Design — Smashing Magazine
Pratik Joglekar takes a philosophical approach to remind designers about the lost joy within themselves by effectively placing massive importance on mindfulness, introspection, and forward-looking. Without joy, the work we do would feel meaningless. To prevent it from happening, check out a few ideas that would help rediscover that spark of joy.
Using Zig in our incremental Turborepo migration from Go to Rust
In this Turborepo migration update, we explore the innovative strategies, such as the "Go Sandwich" approach and leveraging Zig's cross-compilation, guiding our gradual shift from Go to Rust, aiming to boost performance without sacrificing stability.
What’s next for Cloudflare One’s data protection suite
Cloudflare One just launched its data protection suite. This blog previews new functionality to protect data and code in SaaS environments with our DLP and CASB services and looks back on what we have built over the past year
Cloudflare One for Data Protection
This blog announces Cloudflare One for Data Protection — our unified suite to protect data everywhere across web, SaaS, and private applications. Built on and delivered across our entire global network, Cloudflare One’s data protection suite is architected for the risks of modern coding and AI
Using Chakra execution traces for benchmarking and network performance optimization
Meta presents Chakra execution traces, an open graph-based representation of AI/ML workload execution, laying the foundation for benchmarking and network performance optimization. Chakra execution traces represent key operations, such as compute, memory, and communication, data and control dependencies, timing, and resource constraints. In collaboration with MLCommons, we are seeking industry-wide
Arcadia: An end-to-end AI system performance simulator
We’re introducing Arcadia, Meta’s unified system that simulates the compute, memory, and network performance of AI training clusters. Extracting maximum performance from an AI cluster and increasing overall efficiency warrants a multi-input system that accounts for various hardware and software parameters across compute, storage, and network collectively. Arcadia gives Meta’s researchers and engin
Threads: The inside story of Meta’s newest social app
Earlier this year, a small team of engineers at Meta started working on an idea for a new app. It would have all the features people expect from a text-based conversations app, but with one very key, distinctive goal – being an app that would allow people to share their content across multiple platforms. We […]
How to build an enterprise LLM application: Lessons from GitHub Copilot
The team behind GitHub Copilot shares its lessons for building an LLM app that delivers value to both individuals and enterprise users at scale.
Making Sense of React Server Components
This year, the React team unveiled something they've been quietly researching for years: an official way to run React components exclusively on the server. This is a significant paradigm shift, and it's caused a whole lot of confusion in the React community. In this tutorial, we'll explore this new world, and build an intuition for how it works, and how we can take advantage of it.
My Summer Return Internship @ Slack: A Guide on Building on Past Experiences
Embarking on a journey Stepping out of SFO with the familiarity of the fogginess of the city, my story at Slack unfolds once again. As a return intern, I found myself prepped for another exciting summer, and this opportunity encompassed a renewed sense of anticipation — a mix between known pathways and new adventures. Returning…
Long Live The Test Pyramid — Smashing Magazine
Is the Test Pyramid really dead? Discover the more contemporary testing strategies and evaluate the Test Pyramid’s relevance in today’s software development practices.
The creator economy goes global
Stripe data shows that the creator economy has evolved but is still thriving. We’ve seen this evolution up close, as many of the largest creator platforms use Stripe Connect to onboard creators and pay out funds around the world.
What is it like to write code at Meta?
Ever wonder what it’s like to write code at Meta’s scale? On the latest episode of the Meta Tech Podcast, Meta engineer Pascal Hartig (@passy) sits down with Dustin Shahidehpour and Katherine Zak, two software engineers at Meta, to talk about their careers and what it’s really like to ship code at Meta. Why does Meta have […]
Connection coalescing with ORIGIN Frames: fewer DNS queries, fewer connections
In this blog we’re going to take a closer look at “connection coalescing”, with specific focus on manage it at a large scale
Generating Real-Time Audio Sentiment Analysis With AI — Smashing Magazine
In this article, Joas Pambou builds the tool to provide a sentiment score in **real-time** with enhanced user experience by providing multilingual support. You will use an OpenAI library called Whisper that transcribes audio files into text and detects the language, and Gradio, a UI framework, to establish the interface.
Improving Worker Tail scalability
We’re excited to announce improvements to Workers Tail that means it can now be enabled for Workers at any size and scale
Getting started with edge computing
Edge computing practitioners answer your questions about when and why to build applications at the edge.
How to Accurately Test Significance with Difference in Difference Models
When we want to determine the causal effect of a product or business change at Spotify, A/B testing is the gold standard. However, in some cases, it’s not possible to run A/B tests. For example, when the intervention is an exogenous shock we can’t control, such as the COVID pandemic. Or when using experimental control is infeasible, such as during the annual delivery of Spotify Wrapped. In these c
Cloudflare Radar’s 2023 overview of new tools and insights
In this reading list, we want to highlight some of the new additions to Radar, as well as some of the Internet disruptions and trends we’ve observed and published posts about during this year
Creating coherence: How Spotify’s design system goes beyond platforms
Design Manager Juli Sombat sheds light on how a need for more cohesion led Spotify’s design systems team to approach components in a new way.
Optimize your GitHub Codespaces costs with upgraded virtual machines
See how much more you can get out of GitHub Codespaces by taking advantage of the improved processing power and increased headroom in the next generation of virtual machines.
A September Of Never Ending Adventures (2023 Wallpapers Edition) — Smashing Magazine
Let’s get ready for September with some fresh wallpaper designs! Created with love by artists and designers from across the globe, the wallpapers in this collection come in versions with and without a calendar. Enjoy!
Why Rust is the most admired language among developers
Rust continues to top the charts as the most admired and desired language by developers, and in this post, we dive a little deeper into how (and why) Rust is stealing the hearts of developers around the world.
Why all application migrations should be incremental
Projects that require migrations should aim for incremental migrations
Cloudflare’s tenant platform in action: Meter deploys DNS filtering at scale
Today, we're excited to showcase Meter, a provider of Internet infrastructure, is leveraging the Tenant API integration for DNS filtering to help their clients enforce acceptable Internet use policies
Conditional foreign keys and polymorphism in SQL: 4 Methods
How to model conditional foreign keys: 4 methods to transfer a reference to a polymorphic type to SQL. Explore how PostgreSQL features like JSON support and table inheritance can help.
Keeping Figma fast
When a laptop crashed in an empty office, we knew it was time to overhaul our performance testing framework.
GitHub Enterprise Server 3.10 is now generally available
Customers using GHES can now ensure secure development is a top priority with enhanced security and compliance controls for their repositories.
Scheduling Jupyter Notebooks at Meta
At Meta, Bento is our internal Jupyter notebooks platform that is leveraged by many internal users. Notebooks are also being used widely for creating reports and workflows (for example, performing data ETL) that need to be repeated at certain intervals. Users with such notebooks would have to remember to manually run their notebooks at the […]
Zero Configuration Service Mesh with On-Demand Cluster Discovery
Netflix’s service mesh adoption: history, motivations, and how we worked with the Envoy community on a streamlining service mesh adoption in complex microservice environments
10 things you didn’t know you could do with GitHub Projects
Learn how to optimize your usage of GitHub Projects to plan and track your work from idea to production.
Traffic 101: Packets Mostly Flow
Slack handles billions of inbound network requests per day, all of which traverse through our edge network and ingress load balancing tiers. In this blog post, we’ll talk about how a request flows — from a Slack’s user perspective — across the vast ether of the network to reach AWS and then Slack’s internal…
Falling For Oklch: A Love Story Of Color Spaces, Gamuts, And CSS — Smashing Magazine
The CSS Color Module Level 4 specification defined a slew of new color features when it became a candidate recommendation in 2022, including Oklab and Oklch, which have widened the field of color we have to work with. Explore the Oklch color space and how to start using it in CSS today.
Game Bytes
Game Bytes is our monthly series taking a peek at the world of gamedev on GitHub—featuring game engine updates, game jam details, open source games, mods, maps, and more. Game on!
Improving The Double Diamond Design Process — Smashing Magazine
The so-called “Double Diamond” is a great way of visualizing an ideal design process — but it’s just not the way most companies deliver new projects or services. Andy Budd proposes a new “Double Diamond” idea that better aligns with the way work actually gets done and highlights the place where design has the most leverage.
Star your favorite websites in the dashboard
You can now “star” up to 10 of the websites and applications you have on Cloudflare for quicker access
Creating an integrated business and technology strategy
To make fruitful use of technology, we need to align our technology thinking with underlying business plans. A technology strategy can drive this alignment, providing it properly integrates business and technology. We have developed a conceptual framework to help us with this strategic thinking, based on recognizing common aspects of strategic initiatives, leading us to identify eleven prevalent s
A faster way to manage version updates with Dependabot
Now, you can group multiple version updates in a single pull request.
Unleashing GitHub Codespaces templates to ignite your development
Learn how to leverage templating features in GitHub Codespaces to streamline your project setup, improve consistency, and simplify collaboration within your development team.
Code Llama: Meta’s state-of-the-art LLM for coding
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Introducing the 2023 Intern-ets!
This year, Cloudflare welcomed a class of ~40 interns for an unforgettable summer filled with invaluable mentorship, continuous learning, and the chance to make a real-world impact. Get ready to learn about the surprising world of Cloudflare interns in their own words
Demo Front-End
Have you ever attended a “demo” where developers were proudly showing screen after screen of JSON output from their API, while users were confused and distracted, unable to make any sense of it? Have you ever tried to use an API in development, and been frustrated by how difficult it is to find the correct JSON payload and header incantations to be able to test a feature? A Demo Front-End is a sim
AI-powered impact: GitHub Social Impact’s year ahead
How GitHub Social Impact is working with nonprofit organizations, employees, and more to create positive, lasting change in global communities.
A Few Interesting Ways To Use CSS Shadows For More Than Depth — Smashing Magazine
We often think of shadows in CSS as something to reach for when we want to add depth to a design. But shadows can be used for more than depth. Let’s experiment with different shadows — two CSS properties and a filter — to make interesting hover effects, different text styles, and even casting shadows on other shadows.
Vercel AI Accelerator Demo Day
Watch 28 talented AI startups show off impressive demos in 3 minutes each as part of our AI Accelerator Demo Day.