Getting started with AI: Advice from the experts at Vercel Ship
Takeaways from the AI Enterprise Panel at Vercel Ship 2024.
Celebrating 10 years of Project Galileo
On its 10th anniversary, Cloudflare's Project Galileo continues to offer free security services to over 2,600 journalists and nonprofits globally, supporting human rights and democracy.
GitHub Availability Report: May 2024
In May, we experienced one incident that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.
Leveraging technology on the frontlines of emergency: How communities of developers are taking action
From sending emergency alerts about nearby fires to mapping services in refugee camps, developers are taking action to solve global problems.
How Meta trains large language models at scale
As we continue to focus our AI research and development on solving increasingly complex problems, one of the most significant and challenging shifts we’ve experienced is the sheer scale of computation required to train large language models (LLMs). Traditionally, our AI model training has involved a training massive number of models that required a comparatively […]
Maintaining large-scale AI capacity at Meta
Meta is currently operating many data centers with GPU training clusters across the world. Our data centers are the backbone of our operations, meticulously designed to support the scaling demands of compute and storage. A year ago, however, as the industry reached a critical inflection point due to the rise of artificial intelligence (AI), we […]
Can you run in a tight loop and still be well-behaved?
The Scent Of UX: The Unrealized Potential Of Olfactory Design — Smashing Magazine
Kristian Mikhel covers various practical applications of scents in product experience, from immersive entertainment to healing spaces and medical appliances, and how designers can drive innovation across spheres and disciplines.
Demystifying INP: New tools and actionable insights
Deep dive into Interaction to Next Paint (INP) optimization: A technical guide exploring real-world strategies used to improve INP on nextjs.org. Learn how to tackle common challenges and enhance responsiveness in your web applications.
Heeding the call to support Australia’s most at-risk entities
Heeding the call for industry to step up support of Australia's most at-risk entities, Cloudflare and CI-ISAC are teaming up to help protect Australia’s General Practitioner clinics
How we improved push processing on GitHub
Pushing code to GitHub is one of the most fundamental interactions that developers have with GitHub every day. Read how we have significantly improved the ability of our monolith to correctly and fully process pushes from our users.
10 years of the GitHub Security Bug Bounty Program
Let’s take a look at 10 key moments from the first decade of the GitHub Security Bug Bounty program.
Unlocking the power of mixed reality devices with MobileConfig
MobileConfig enables developers to centrally manage a mobile app’s configuration parameters in our data centers. Once a parameter value is changed on our central server, billions of app devices automatically fetch and apply the new value without app updates. These remotely managed configuration parameters serve various purposes such as A/B testing, feature rollout, and app […]
Some early results for feed reader behavior monitoring
How To Hack Your Google Lighthouse Scores In 2024 — Smashing Magazine
Do perfect Lighthouse scores mean the performance of your website is perfect? As it turns out, Lighthouse is influenced by a number of things that can be manipulated and bent to make sites seem more performant than they really are, as Salma Alam-Naylor demonstrates in several experiments.
Never drop the illusion: How Frame.io builds fluid user experiences
Exploring the 2024 EU Election: Internet traffic trends and cybersecurity insights
The 2024 EU Parliament election caused declines in Internet traffic during voting and spikes during results announcements, with persistent cyber threats targeting government sites
Top 12 Git commands every developer must know
The latest installment of GitHub for Beginners, where we cover the essential Git commands to get you Git-literate.
Serverless Jupyter Notebooks at Meta
At Meta, Bento, our internal Jupyter notebooks platform, is a popular tool that allows our engineers to mix code, text, and multimedia in a single document. Use cases run the entire spectrum from what we call “lite” workloads that involve simple prototyping to heavier and more complex machine learning workflows. However, even though the lite […]
Internet insights on 2024 elections in the Netherlands, South Africa, Iceland, India, and Mexico
2024 brings a global increase in election activity. Here, we highlight traffic and cyberattack trends witnessed in countries like the Netherlands, South Africa, Iceland, India, and Mexico. Additionally, we provide an up-to-date 2024 Election Insights report on Cloudflare Radar
Charmaine Lee’s 10 rules for building developer tools that feel like magic
As a product manager working on Snapchat’s Lens Studio for AR developers, Charmaine knows what it takes to delight creators.
Useful CSS Tips And Techniques — Smashing Magazine
The times for CSS have probably never been more exciting than today. In this quick read, we’ve got some useful CSS tips and techniques for you that you can apply to your work right away. Let’s dive deeper into self-modifying CSS variables, hanging punctuation, and more.
Dutch political websites hit by cyber attacks as EU voting starts
The 2024 European Parliament election began in the Netherlands on June 6. Cloudflare mitigated several multi-hour DDoS attacks on Dutch political websites on June 5 and 6
European Union elections 2024: securing democratic processes in light of new threats
Between 6 and 9 June 2024, hundreds of millions of EU citizens will be voting to elect their members of the European Parliament (MEPs). All EU member states have different election processes
Test-Driving HTML Templates
When building a server-side rendered web application, it is valuable to test the HTML that's generated through templates. While these can be tested through end-to-end tests running in the browser, such tests are slow and more work to maintain than unit tests. Unit tests, written in the server-side environment, can check for valid HTML, and extract elements with CSS selectors to test the details of
Presenting UX Research And Design To Stakeholders: The Power Of Persuasion — Smashing Magazine
There’s more to achieving good UX than research and design. We need to effectively communicate our ideas to gain buy-in from key stakeholders. Victor covers how UX practitioners can harness the power of persuasion and other tactics from the field of communication when presenting research findings and design concepts to key stakeholders.
Foreign keys in PostgreSQL: Circular dependencies
In this blog Hans-Jürgen Schönig would like to tell you more about "Foreign keys and circular dependencies".
Scaling Success: Key Insights And Practical Takeaways — Smashing Magazine
The web is still a young platform, and we’re only now beginning to recognize what “success” looks like for large projects. In his recent Smashing book, [Success at Scale](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/printed-books/success-at-scale/), Addy Osmani presents practical case studies featuring the web’s most renowned companies and their efforts to make big changes to existing apps and sites. In this
Adopting OpenTelemetry for our logging pipeline
Recently, Cloudflare's Observability team undertook an effort to migrate our existing syslog-ng backed logging infrastructure to instead being backed by OpenTelemetry Collectors. In this post, we detail the process that we undertook, and the difficulties we faced along the way
CSS Length Units
A comprehensive guide covering nine types of lengths that CSS uses to size elements in terms of dimensions, space, time, and even sound.
Drafts are changing—here’s what you need to know
Starting June 2024, Figma’s drafts will live within Starter and Professional teams.
How GitHub reduced testing time for iOS apps with new runner features
Learn how GitHub used macOS and Apple Silicon runners for GitHub Actions to build, test, and deploy our iOS app faster.
Arm64 on GitHub Actions: Powering faster, more efficient build systems
GitHub Actions now offers Arm-hosted runners with images built by Arm for developers to begin building on the latest and most sustainable processors on the market.
Promises From The Ground Up
The “Promises” API is a surprisingly tricky part of modern JavaScript. Without the right context, it doesn’t make much sense at all! In this tutorial, you’ll build an intuition for how Promises work by getting a deeper understanding of JavaScript and its limitations.
Reader feedback: feed reader scores and "like" buttons
Introducing bytecode caching for Vercel Functions
Vercel's bytecode caching eliminates JavaScript compilation on cold starts by caching V8 bytecode across invocations, reducing TTFB by up to 27% and billed duration by up to 58% for serverless functions.
Mintlify: Scaling a powerful documentation platform with Vercel
A discussion of discussions on AI bias
Extending Private Network Load Balancing load balancing to Layer 4 with Spectrum
Cloudflare is adding support for all TCP and UDP traffic to our Private Network Load Balancing load balancing solution, extending the benefits of Private Network Load Balancing to more than just
Ice Cream Ahead (June 2024 Wallpapers Edition) — Smashing Magazine
Let’s kick off June with some fresh inspiration! Artists and designers from across the globe once again tickled their creativity to celebrate the beginning of the new month with a collection of beautiful and unique wallpaper calendars.
Cloudflare acquires BastionZero to extend Zero Trust access to IT infrastructure
We’re excited to announce that BastionZero, a Zero Trust infrastructure access platform, has joined Cloudflare. This acquisition extends our Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) flows with native access management for infrastructure like servers, Kubernetes clusters, and databases
Disrupting FlyingYeti's campaign targeting Ukraine
In April and May 2024, Cloudforce One employed proactive defense measures to successfully prevent Russia-aligned threat actor FlyingYeti from launching their latest phishing campaign targeting Ukraine
The feed reader score service is now online
In Praise Of The Basics — Smashing Magazine
What does it mean to learn the “basics”, or fundamentals, of front-end web development? Is starting with HTML and CSS still the best entry point to learn how to make websites and apps when we have a seemingly endless supply of frameworks? Geoff Graham thinks so and discusses why you might consider going “back to basics” to start or move forward in your career.
The Linear method: Opinionated software
How the Linear team builds products, and the principles and processes that guide their work
Data Fetching Patterns in Single-Page Applications
When a single-page application needs to fetch data from a remote source, it needs to do so while remaining responsive and providing feedback to the user during an often slow query. Five patterns help with this. Asynchronous State Handler wraps these queries with meta-queries for the state of the query. Parallel Data Fetching minimizes wait time. Fallback Markup specifies fallback displays in marku
GitHub and JFrog partner to unify code and binaries for DevSecOps
This partnership between GitHub and JFrog enables developers to manage code and binaries more efficiently on two of the most widely used developer platforms in the world.
I'm going to give this "reader score" thing a spin
Decision Trees For UI Components — Smashing Magazine
Imagine finally resolving never-ending discussions about UI decisions for good. Here are some practical examples of decision trees for UI components and how to use them effectively. An upcoming part of [Smart Interface Design Patterns](https://smart-interface-design-patterns.com).
Why do I have a slow COMMIT in PostgreSQL?
This article describes the possible reasons for a slow COMMIT in PostgreSQL and discusses what you can to against that.
The Era Of Platform Primitives Is Finally Here — Smashing Magazine
Application frameworks have built whole ecosystems on top of them. Let’s take a closer look at serverless platforms such as Netlify’s [Platform Primitives](https://www.netlify.com/platform/primitives) and explore how they can increase our productivity with a serverless fullstack experience.
Introducing no-code migrations to Stripe Billing
Last month we announced a new Billing migration toolkit designed to address your top pain points: engineering resourcing, the risk of disruptive errors, and migration time. Here’s how the migration toolkit addresses each.
What is Git? Our beginner’s guide to version control
Let’s get you started on your Git journey with basic concepts to know, plus a step-by-step on how to install and configure the most widely used version control system in the world.
So many feed readers, so many bizarre behaviors
Switching It Up With HTML’s Latest Control — Smashing Magazine
After years of relying on checkbox hacks to create a “switch” control for forms that toggle between two states, HTML may be gaining a native way to go about it by adding a `switch` attribute to checkbox inputs. Daniel Yuschick walks us through a first impression of switch controls and discusses current and ongoing considerations that need to be explored further before it is ready for prime time.
Vercel Ship 2024 recap
Vercel Ship 2024 highlighted the integrations, ecosystem, and teams building the web's best products. Read the recap to catch up on all our announcements.
2024 GitHub Accelerator: Meet the 11 projects shaping open source AI
Announcing the second cohort, delivering value to projects, and driving a new frontier.
Best Practices For Naming Design Tokens, Components And Variables — Smashing Magazine
How can we get better at naming? This post is dedicated to naming conventions, tips, and real-world examples that help you name things in a robust and flexible way.
Introducing the Vercel Web Application Firewall
Introducing the Vercel Web Application Firewall: application-aware, Vercel-native protection that brings the web one step closer to being secure by default.
Introducing deeper integrations for feature flags in Vercel
Introducing a platform-wide understanding of feature flags in Vercel, and an experimental Next.js design pattern for working with flags in code.