Sidekick’s Improved Streaming Experience - Shopify
In this post, learn how Shopify's Sidekick solves markdown rendering jank and response delay in LLM chatbots with buffering parser and async content resolution.
Smashing Podcast Episode 64 With Alvin Bryan: What Is A Headless CMS? — Smashing Magazine
We’re talking about headless content management systems. What are they, and how do they differ from more traditional systems? Drew McLellan talks to Alvin Bryan to find out.
CSS And Accessibility: Inclusion Through User Choice — Smashing Magazine
In this article, Carie Fisher outlines which CSS media features are available for detecting user preferences and how they are used to design and build more inclusive user experiences.
Coming Soon: Confidence — An Experimentation Platform from Spotify
TL;DR: Spotify is releasing a new commercial product for software development teams: a version of our homegrown experimentation platform that we’re calling . Based on everything we’ve learned over the last 10+ years about what it takes to enable experimentation at scale, the platform makes it easy for teams to set up, run, coordinate, and analyze their own user tests — from simple A/B testing to t
Experimentation at Spotify: Three Lessons for Maximizing Impact in Innovation
As companies mature, it’s easy to believe that the core experience and most user needs have been resolved, and all that’s left to work toward are the marginal benefits, the cherries on top. Cherries on top might add delight and panache, but they rarely cause fundamental shifts in performance and success. And as a business, even a mature one, we’re looking for the innovations that tangibly impact t
Encouragement Designs and Instrumental Variables for A/B Testing
At Spotify, . Most of these tests follow a standard design, where we assign users randomly to control and treatment groups, and then observe the difference in outcomes between these two groups. Usually, the control group, also known as the “holdout” group, retains the current experience, while the treatment group experiences a difference: a new feature, a change to an algorithm, or a redesigned us
Understanding React Server Components
React Server Components are changing the fundamental paradigms of React. Learn how Next.js handles the complexities and improves the performance of your applications.
Living In The Moment (August 2023 Wallpapers Edition) — Smashing Magazine
New month, new wallpapers! In this post, you’ll find unique and inspiring wallpapers for August 2023. Created with love by the community for the community, they come in versions with and without a calendar. Enjoy!
Cloudflare Radar's new BGP origin hijack detection system
BGP origin hijacks allow attackers to intercept, monitor, redirect, or drop traffic destined for the victim's networks. We explain how Cloudflare built its BGP hijack detection system, from its design and implementation to its integration on Cloudflare Radar
Smarter, more efficient coding: GitHub Copilot goes beyond Codex with improved AI model
We’re thrilled to announce two major updates to GitHub Copilot code Completion’s capabilities that will help developers work even more efficiently and effectively.
Closing vulnerabilities in Decidim, a Ruby-based citizen participation platform
This blog post describes two security vulnerabilities in Decidim, a digital platform for citizen participation. Both vulnerabilities were addressed by the Decidim team with corresponding update releases for the supported versions in May 2023.
Why is DNS still hard to learn?
Why is DNS still hard to learn?
How To Define An Array Of Colors With CSS — Smashing Magazine
Join Temani Afif on experiment with modern CSS features to create an array of colors. The goal is to define a comma-separated list of colors and iterate through them using an index.
Q2 2023 Internet disruption summary
In this post, we review selected Internet disruptions observed by Cloudflare during the second quarter of 2023, supported by traffic graphs from Cloudflare Radar and other internal Cloudflare tools, and grouped by associated cause or common geography
The future of design systems is semantic
In this piece, we dig into the decreasing gap between design and code, increasing semantics, and one of Figma’s newest features: variables.
Scaling merge-ort across GitHub
GitHub switched to performing merges and rebases using merge-ort. Come behind the scenes to see why and how we made this change.
How To Use Artificial Intelligence And Machine Learning To Summarize Chat Conversations — Smashing Magazine
In this article, we’ll explore how to build a chat summarizer using the Cohere API and deploy it as a web application using Gradio.[ Cohere](https://cohere.com/) is an AI platform that provides state-of-the-art natural language processing models for a variety of tasks, including summarization. We’ll cover the steps involved in training the summarizer using sample chat conversations, interacting wi
Engineering a site at the speed of breaking news
Throwing curveballs: Shopify’s secret for staying ahead of the game
By shaking up business as usual, managers encourage their teams to think bigger—from roadmap planning to retros.
How to get AI regulation right for open source
Sharing our coalition paper to inform the final negotiation of the EU AI Act.
Shopify’s platform is the Web platform - Shopify
Remix is now the recommended way to build Admin apps on Shopify. With Remix, you get a best-in-class developer experience while ensuring exceptional out-of-the-box performance for your app. Remix embraces the web platform and web standards, allowing web developers to use more of their existing knowledge and skills.
Service Delivery Index: A Driver for Reliability
Customer-first: Moving from Hero Engineering to Reliability Engineering From the beginning, Slack has always had a strong focus on the customer experience, and customer love is one of our core values. Slack has grown from a small team to thousands of employees over the years and this customer love has always included a focus on…
Modern Technology And The Future Of Language Translation — Smashing Magazine
The field of language translation has never been more exciting. Explore the evolution of language translation platforms, how we got to where we are today, and what advancements we can look forward to in the coming years.
How Cloudflare is staying ahead of the AMD vulnerability known as “Zenbleed”
The Google Information Security Team revealed a new flaw in AMD's Zen 2 processors in a blog post today. The 'Zenbleed' flaw affects the entire Zen 2 product stack, from AMD's EPYC data center processors to the Ryzen 3000 CPUs, and can be exploited to steal sensitive data processed in the CPU,
Killing performance with PostgreSQL partitioning
Partitioning is not without risk. It might help to handle large quantities of data, but it can also have downsides - learn how to it.
Beta version of major SwiftyDropbox update available
Check out an updated version of the Dropbox Swift SDK with significant new features
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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!
How to build a GPT-3 App with Nextjs, React, and GitHub Copilot
In this step-by-step tutorial, you will learn how to use GitHub Copilot to build an application with OpenAI’s gpt-3.5-turbo model.
How to responsibly adopt GitHub Copilot with the GitHub Copilot Trust Center
We’re launching the GitHub Copilot Trust Center to provide transparency about how GitHub Copilot works and help organizations innovate responsibly with generative AI.
Introducing React Tweet
Embed tweets into your React application without sacrificing performance.
How Vercel helped this popular health database increase free trials by 284%
Measuring the Internet's pulse: trending domains now on Cloudflare Radar
Today, we are improving our Domain Rankings page and adding Trending Domains lists
The anatomy of launching a Figma open beta
A go-to-market strategy doesn’t just end on launch day. We’re putting our very own Dev Mode under the scalpel to dissect what’s at play in the critical two-week period after launch.
GitHub Repository Rules are now generally available
Repository rules provide an easy, flexible way to define branch protections and ensure consistency in code across repositories.
Recreating YouTube’s Ambient Mode Glow Effect — Smashing Magazine
In this article, Adrian deconstructs YouTube’s “Ambient Mode” feature and how HTML `` and the `requestAnimationFrame` function are used to create the glowing effect.
The Art Of Looking Back: A Critical Reflection For Individual Contributors — Smashing Magazine
Discover the importance of critical reflective practice and challenge some beliefs about reflection and its role in our work and growth. Kristian Mikhel suggests a critical reflective routine for individual contributors and gives some practical recommendations that will make reflection meaningful and actionable.
How Turborepo is porting from Go to Rust
Our strategy for making updates and maintaining stability while we migrate languages.
Protecting data on Apple devices with Cloudflare and Jamf
Our unique partnership offering will enable Jamf customers to easily implement network Data Loss Prevention (DLP), Remote Browser Isolation (RBI), and SaaS Tenancy Controls from Cloudflare to prevent sensitive data loss from their Apple devices
GitHub Copilot Chat beta now available for every organization
All GitHub Copilot for Business users now have access to a limited GitHub Copilot Chat beta, bringing the power of conversational coding right to the IDE.
Cloudflare Zaraz steps up: general availability and new pricing
Cloudflare Zaraz has transitioned out of beta and is now generally available to all customers. It is included under the free, paid, and enterprise plans of the Cloudflare Developer Platform. Visit our docs to learn more on our different plans
The shared language of props
Best practices for bridging the languages of design and development.
How platform teams get stuff done
Platform teams have a unique reliance on other teams to ensure adoption of their platform - getting code changes into other teams' codebase is critical to their success. There are a variety of patterns for that cross-team collaboration, and selecting the right ones depends on both the phase of platform adoption and the ability of both teams and codebases to accept external influence.
Exploring developer happiness, inclusion, and productivity at GitHub’s Design Conference
As a design organization, we have the opportunity to make a significant impact on designing the platform for all developers. How does the emergence of creative AI impact our work? How can we achieve an inclusive experience for a spectrum of all abilities? What does designing for developer happiness look like?
Metrics for issues, pull requests, and discussions
With the new Issue Metrics GitHub Action, you can now track and monitor important metrics related to issues, pull requests, and discussions, such as time to first response, time to close, and more!
How React 18 Improves Application Performance
Learn how React 18's concurrent features like Transitions, Suspense, and React Server Components improve application performance.
DDoS threat report for 2023 Q2
Q2 2023 saw an unprecedented escalation in DDoS attack sophistication. Pro-Russian hacktivists REvil, Killnet and Anonymous Sudan joined forces to attack Western sites. Mitel vulnerability exploits surged by a whopping 532%, and attacks on crypto rocketed up by 600%.
Reproducible builds: a PostgreSQL query optimization example
Learn how to rewrite a query to speed up performance - a practical example where Christoph speeds up a PostgreSQL query by a factor of 27,000
Decentralizing the Practice of Architecture at Xapo Bank
Xapo was founded as a Bitcoin service provider and developed into an online bank. During this transition it needed to reassess its software estate and establish an architecture capability to guide its future. It took on ideas from Domain-Driven Design, Team Topologies, and the Architecture Advice Process to develop an Architectural Advice Forum. This led to greater alignment of its software delive
Security alert: social engineering campaign targets technology industry employees
GitHub has identified a low-volume social engineering campaign that targets the personal accounts of employees of technology firms. No GitHub or npm systems were compromised in this campaign. We’re publishing this blog post as a warning for our customers to prevent exploitation by this threat actor.
Contributing support for a Wasm instruction to Winch - Shopify
Jeff Charles, a Senior Shopify Developer, shares key learnings from his successful pull request to Winch. The pull request aimed to add support for various WebAssembly instructions to Wasmtime's baseline (non-optimizing) compiler.
Designing Age-Inclusive Products: Guidelines And Best Practices — Smashing Magazine
With an estimated one in every eight individuals worldwide surpassing the age of 60, who are actively adopting online shopping, the need for user-friendly interfaces tailored to their needs becomes apparent. Explore the guidelines to help you design inclusive products for all, particularly for an older audience and your future self.
A developer’s guide to prompt engineering and LLMs
Prompt engineering is the art of communicating with a generative AI model. In this article, we’ll cover how we approach prompt engineering at GitHub, and how you can use it to build your own LLM-based application.
Bringing HDR video to Reels
Meta has made it possible for people to upload high dynamic range (HDR) videos from their phone’s camera roll to Reels on Facebook and Instagram. To show standard dynamic range (SDR) UI elements and overlays legibly on top of HDR video, we render them at a brightness level comparable to the video itself. We solved […]
Gossip Protocol Explained - High Scalability -
You can subscribe to the system design newsletter to excel in system design interviews and software architecture. The original article was published on systemdesign.one website. What Is Gossip Protocol? The typical problems in a distributed system are the following [1], [11]: * maintaining the system state (liveness of nodes) * communication between nodes The potential solutions to these problems
Lessons Learned Running Presto at Meta Scale - High Scalability -
Presto is a free, open source SQL query engine. We’ve been using it at Meta for the past ten years, and learned a lot while doing so. Running anything at scale - tools, processes, services - takes problem solving to overcome unexpected challenges. Here are four things we learned while scaling up Presto to Meta scale, and some advice if you’re interested in running your own queries at scale. Scalin
Quickly see differences between Zone Versions with Version Comparisons
Quickly compare changes between two Zone Versions with Version Comparisons available now
Writing CSS In 2023: Is It Any Different Than A Few Years Ago? — Smashing Magazine
CSS is evolving faster than ever. With all of the new features that are now available — and forthcoming — since we got Flexbox and Grid years ago, the way we write CSS is evolving, too. In this article, Geoff Graham shares which features have had the most influence on his current approaches to CSS, as well as those that have not (at least yet).
DLP Exact Data Match beta now available
Cloudflare One now supports exact data match for Data Loss Prevention
