Data Platform Explained Part II
Check out , where we started sharing the journey of building a data platform, its building blocks, and the motivation for investing into building a platformized solution at Spotify.
Fixed-Power Designs: It’s Not IF You Peek, It’s WHAT You Peek at
TL;DR Sometimes we cannot estimate the required sample size needed to power an experiment before starting it. To alleviate this problem, we could run a sequential test or an A/A test. However, sequential tests are typically less sensitive and introduce bias to the treatment effect estimator. Moreover, A/A tests prolong the duration of the experiment and still don’t guarantee that the resulting sam
Where does your software (really) come from?
GitHub is working with the OSS community to bring new supply chain security capabilities to the platform.
Longing For May (2024 Wallpapers Edition) — Smashing Magazine
May is almost here, so what better occasion could there be for some fresh and inspiring desktop wallpapers? Created with love by artists and designers from across the globe, the wallpapers in this post come in versions with and without a calendar. Enjoy!
Highlights from Git 2.45
Git 2.45 is here with experimental support for reftables, and SHA-256 interoperability. Get our take on the latest here.
GitHub Copilot Workspace: Welcome to the Copilot-native developer environment
We’re redefining the developer environment with GitHub Copilot Workspace – where any developer can go from idea, to code, to software all in natural language.
CodeQL zero to hero part 3: Security research with CodeQL
Learn how to use CodeQL for security research and improve your security research workflow.
Hitting every branch on the way down
Lessons Learned After Selling My Startup — Smashing Magazine
Business acquisitions are common but often shrouded in mystery because they happen behind closed doors. In this article, Yaakov details the story of his company and the journey it took him on, shedding light on the process of selling a business and what he learned from the experience.
GitHub Actions, Arm64, and the future of automotive software development
Learn how GitHub’s Enterprise Cloud, GitHub Actions, and Arm’s latest Automotive Enhanced processors, work together to usher in a new era of efficient, scalable, and flexible automotive software creation.
The End Of The Free Tier — Smashing Magazine
Free-tier pricing is a common marketing strategy. “Free” gets people in the door and allows them to settle in and see how things work. But, as Juan Diego Rodriguez explains, the practice of free *tiers* is often conflated with free *trials*. And while the distinction may be nuanced, the consequences of sunsetting free-tier pricing may be huge.
Patroni Contributors Meeting 2024 in Munich
Before the pgconf.de, a few contributors to the Patroni project met to discuss the past, present and future of this framework for PostgreSQL HA. Find out more.
Speeding up C++ build times
How we cut build times by 50% and shipped a solution for scale.
New zine: How Git Works!
New zine: How Git Works!
Conducting Accessibility Research In An Inaccessible Ecosystem — Smashing Magazine
Conducting UX research that includes participants with a variety of disabilities is vital to building inclusive technology, but most prototypes used for testing are inaccessible. Rather than continuing to leave out feedback from disabled consumers, which ultimately leads to exclusive technology, researchers must get creative in their workarounds and be relentless in their efforts.
Securing millions of developers through 2FA
We’ve dramatically increased 2FA adoption on GitHub as part of our responsibility to make the software ecosystem more secure. Read on to learn how we secured millions of developers and why we’re urging more organizations to join us in these efforts.
Using AI For Neurodiversity And Building Inclusive Tools — Smashing Magazine
This article illustrates how AI can be leveraged to build tools that can be inclusive with a little bit of an additional effort.
Our biggest product updates from Sessions 2024
We announced AI-powered payments, our biggest-ever upgrades to Stripe Connect, new support for usage-based billing, increased interoperability, and a lot more.
Lessons from building an automated SDK pipeline
During Developer Week 2024, Cloudflare announced revamped SDKs, automatically generated from OpenAPI schemas. This post details the pipeline's workings and lessons learned.
F-Shape Pattern And How Users Read — Smashing Magazine
Scrolling, scanning, skipping: How do users consume content online? Here’s what you need to know about reading behavior and design strategies to prevent harmful scanning patterns. An upcoming part of Smart Interface Design Patterns.
Latency numbers every frontend developer should know
Latency numbers every web developer should know
Using open source to help the earth
This Earth Day, we discuss how tech and open source are helping two organizations combat the effects of a changing climate.
How To Work With GraphQL In WordPress In 2024 — Smashing Magazine
What options do we have for integrating GraphQL with WordPress in 2024? Leonardo Losoviz describes the developments that have taken place in this space over the last three years.
Cloudflare named in 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Security Service Edge
Gartner has once again named Cloudflare to the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Security Service Edge (SSE) report
Issue no.4: Find your framework
Figma’s editorial newsletter about how products take shape—and shape our world.
2024 Analysis of Traffic to martinfowler.com
A policy proposal on our approach to deepfake tools and responsible AI
We’re asking for feedback on a proposed Acceptable Use Policy update to address the use of synthetic and manipulated media tools for non-consensual intimate imagery and disinformation while protecting valuable research.
How We Built Slack AI To Be Secure and Private
At Slack, we’ve long been conservative technologists. In other words, when we invest in leveraging a new category of infrastructure, we do it rigorously. We’ve done this since we debuted machine learning-powered features in 2016, and we’ve developed a robust process and skilled team in the space. Despite that, over the past year we’ve been…
How Global Retail Brands cut development time from months to 1 week with Vercel
How Cloudflare Cloud Email Security protects against the evolving threat of QR phishing
Learn about how Cloudflare's Cloud Email Security tackles QR phishing, why attackers favor QR codes, and Cloudflare's proactive defense strategy against evolving threats
PGconf.de 2024 in Munich
I had the pleasure of attending PGConf.de in Munich on April 12, 2024. Here I report on my experiences and insights.
Converting Plain Text To Encoded HTML With Vanilla JavaScript — Smashing Magazine
What do you do when you need to convert plain text into formatted HTML? Perhaps you reach for Markdown or manually write in the element tags yourself. Or maybe you have one or two of the dozens of online tools that will do it for you. In this tutorial, Alexis Kypridemos picks those tools apart and details the steps for how we can do it ourselves with a little vanilla HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
Building an interactive 3D event badge with React Three Fiber
See a full working demo of how we built the interactive Vercel Ship '24 badge using React Three Fiber and react-three-rapier.
DDoS threat report for 2024 Q1
2024 started with a bang. Cloudflare’s autonomous systems mitigated over 4.5 million DDoS attacks in the first quarter of the year — a 50% increase compared to the previous year. Read the full coverage
What we launched at Framework
We announced Code Connect for developers, typography and gradient variables, and our Library Analytics API to help you drive design system adoption across your entire organization.
Alaska Airlines reaches new heights with the help of variables
By leveraging advanced design system features like variables, Alaska Airlines accelerates and streamlines how it ships cohesive digital experiences.
The world’s fair of software: Join us at GitHub Universe 2024
Ten years of our global developer event! Celebrate with us by picking up in-person tickets today. It’s bound to be our best one yet.
How To Monitor And Optimize Google Core Web Vitals — Smashing Magazine
The three Core Web Vitals metrics don’t only tell you how visitors experience your website but also impact your Google search result rankings. In this article, we’ll look at what Core Web Vitals are, how they are measured, and how you can use DebugBear to monitor them continuously.
CSS in React Server Components
You can’t make an omelette without cracking a few eggs, and when the core React team unveiled their vision for the future of React, some of my favourite libraries got scrambled 😅. In this blog post, we’re going to explore the compatibility issues between React Server Components and CSS-in-JS libraries like styled-components. You’ll understand what the issue is, what the options are, and what’s on
Sliding 3D Image Frames In CSS — Smashing Magazine
Creating 3D effects in CSS isn’t an entirely new concept, but typical approaches use additional elements in the markup and pseudo-elements in the styles to pull it off. Temani Afif applies 3D effects and sliding transitions to a single `` using clever CSS techniques that demonstrate advanced, modern styling practices.
Releasing safe and cost-efficient blue-green deployments
Learn how Vercel's platform primitives enable safe and scalable blue-green deployments that mitigate the risks of rolling out new software versions.
Codegen plugins (and other tips) for automating design to code
Everything you need to know for a fast and efficient workflow.
All In Africa: New cohort now open!
As we’re opening up the doors to our final class of this programmatic year, we’re also looking back at our recent graduates and the partners that helped make them a success.
Penpot’s CSS Grid Layout: Designing With Superpowers — Smashing Magazine
Penpot helps designers and developers work better together by offering a free, open-source design tool based on open web standards. Today, let
The future of design systems is marketing
Design systems have many benefits, but their impact is only as strong as their adoption. Designer Advocate Ana Boyer tells us how to get the entire team on board.
The anatomy of a component sprint
The Washington Post’s inclusive process for creating new design system components bridges the gap between design and development.
Uncovering the Seams in Mainframes for Incremental Modernisation
Mainframe systems continue to run much of the world's computing workload, but it's often difficult to add new features to support growing business needs. Furthermore the architectural challenges that make them slow to enhance also make them hard to replace. To reduce the risk involved, we should use an incremental approach to legacy displacement, gradually replacing legacy capabilities with implem
Helping policymakers weigh the benefits of open source AI
GitHub enables developer collaboration on innovative software projects, and we’re committed to ensuring policymakers understand developer needs when crafting AI regulation.
GitHub Availability Report: March 2024
In March, we experienced two incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.
Notes on git's error messages
Notes on git's error messages
Going in circles without a real-time clock
Creating a robust platform for documentation with Next.js and Vercel
Total eclipse of the Internet: traffic impacts in Mexico, the US, and Canada
Cloudflare’s data shows a clear impact on Internet traffic from Mexico to the US, and Canada, following the path of totality of the total solar eclipse that occurred on April 8, 2024
4 ways GitHub engineers use GitHub Copilot
GitHub Copilot increases efficiency for our engineers by allowing us to automate repetitive tasks, stay focused, and more.
Explore the seasons of software development with four full years of data
Discover the latest trends and insights on public software development activity on GitHub with the release of Q4 2023 data for the Innovation Graph.
Connecting With Users: Applying Principles Of Communication To UX Research — Smashing Magazine
Victor Yocco reviews the components of the Transactional Model of communication, explaining how we might apply this framework to preparing, conducting, and analysing our UX research. You will understand how many UX research best practices align with the model and get an example of a tool for tracking alignment.
Composable AI for ecommerce: Hands-on with Vercel’s AI SDK
With v0 and the Vercel AI SDK, you can go from AI pipe dream to working prototype in just a few hours. See how AI can transform your ecommerce storefront.
Developer Week 2024 wrap-up
Developer Week 2024 has officially come to a close. Here’s a quick recap of the announcements and in-depth technical explorations that went out last week
Major data center power failure (again): Cloudflare Code Orange tested
Just four months after a complete power outage at a critical data center we were hit with the exact same scenario. Here’s how we did this time, and what’s next
