Design system 102: How to build a design system
Learn the basics of creating a system tailored to your unique goals and challenges, whether building from scratch or starting with existing pieces.
How Ruggable saw 300% more organic clicks by optimizing their frontend architecture
Browser Rendering API GA, rolling out Cloudflare Snippets, SWR, and bringing Workers for Platforms to all users
Browser Rendering API is now available to all paid Workers customers with improved session management
Cloudflare acquires Baselime to expand serverless application observability capabilities
Today, we’re thrilled to announce that Cloudflare has acquired Baselime, a serverless observability company
Community Update: empowering startups building on Cloudflare and creating an inclusive community
We’re excited to close out Developer Week by sharing updates on our Workers Launchpad program, our latest Developer Challenge, and the work we’re doing to ensure our community spaces – like our Discord and Community forums – are safe and inclusive for all developers
We've added JavaScript-native RPC to Cloudflare Workers
Cloudflare Workers now features a built-in RPC (Remote Procedure Call) system for use in Worker-to-Worker and Worker-to-Durable Object communication, with absolutely minimal boilerplate. We've designed an RPC system so expressive that calling a remote service can feel like using a library
The Things Users Would Appreciate In Mobile Apps — Smashing Magazine
What can we do to make a mobile app better? What subsidiary features are worth providing for our users? I have some ideas. You might, too. So, let’s compare our notes. Without any prescriptions attached, here are seven features I believe can palpably improve a user’s experience with a mobile app.
What’s new with Cloudflare Media: updates for Calls, Stream, and Images
With Cloudflare Calls in open beta, you can build real-time, serverless video and audio applications. Cloudflare Stream lets your viewers instantly clip from ongoing streams
Announcing Pages support for monorepos, wrangler.toml, database integrations and more!
Today, we’re launching four improvements to Pages that bring functionality previously restricted to Workers, with the goal of unifying the development experience between the two. Support for monorepos, wrangler.toml, new additions to Next.js support and database integrations
Cloudflare Calls: millions of cascading trees all the way down
Cloudflare Calls is a serverless SFU and TURN service running at Cloudflare’s edge. It’s now in open beta and costs $0.05/ real-time GB. It’s 100% anycast WebRTC
Surf the web like it’s 1999 with these old-school cursors
404 isn’t just an error code—this year it’s our annual April Fun Day. We’re throwing it back to our favorite digital design eras.
What is retrieval-augmented generation, and what does it do for generative AI?
Here’s how retrieval-augmented generation, or RAG, uses a variety of data sources to keep AI models fresh with up-to-date information and organizational knowledge.
Improved infrastructure pricing
We're reducing pricing on Vercel fundamentals like bandwidth and functions.
R2 adds event notifications, support for migrations from Google Cloud Storage, and an infrequent access storage tier
We’re excited to announce three new features for Cloudflare R2: event notifications, support for migrations from Google Cloud Storage, and an infrequent access storage tier
Improving Cloudflare Workers and D1 developer experience with Prisma ORM
Together, Cloudflare and Prisma make it easier than ever to deploy globally available apps with a focus on developer experience. To further that goal, Prisma ORM now natively supports Cloudflare Workers and D1 in Preview
Data Anywhere with Pipelines, Event Notifications, and Workflows
We make it easy to build scalable, reliable, data-driven applications, so we’re announcing a new Event Notifications framework; our take on durable execution; and a streaming ingestion service.
How Picsart leverages Cloudflare's Developer Platform to build globally performant services
Picsart, one of the world’s largest digital creation platforms, encountered performance challenges in catering to its global audience.
Join us for Framework by Figma: Our global design systems event
We’re bringing together the design systems community on April 16 to share new features, best practices, and a peek into what’s coming next.
How to find, verify, and report open source vulnerabilities using GitHub tools
This blog post is an in-depth walkthrough on how we perform security research leveraging GitHub features, including code scanning, CodeQL, and Codespaces.
Iconography In Design Systems: Easy Troubleshooting And Maintenance — Smashing Magazine
Tatsiana Tarkan digs deep into iconography as part of a design system and shares some doable tips that will turn icon creation and maintenance into an enjoyable process.
Continuing our work with CISA and the Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative to keep vulnerable communities secure online
Along with CISA and the Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative, we are spotlighting threats to civil society, best practices for online protection, and new resources specifically for these vulnerable
Syslog logging with journald in PostgreSQL
This article explains how to configure syslog logging in PostgreSQL and shows how to view and manage the log with journald.
Bringing enterprise-level security and even more power to GitHub-hosted runners
GitHub-hosted runners now support Azure private networking. Plus, we’ve added 2 vCPU Linux, 4 vCPU Windows, macOS L, macOS XL, and GPU hosted runners to our runner fleet.
autoconf makes me think we stopped evolving too soon
Infinite-Scrolling Logos In Flat HTML And Pure CSS — Smashing Magazine
Remember the HTML `` element? It’s deprecated, so it’s not like you’re going to use it when you need some sort of horizontal auto-scrolling feature. That’s where CSS comes in because it has all the tools we need to pull it off. Silvestar Bistrović demonstrates a technique that makes it possible with a set of images and as little HTML as possible.
Building D1: a Global Database
D1, Cloudflare’s SQL database, is now generally available.
Making state easy with D1 GA, Hyperdrive, Queues and Workers Analytics Engine updates
We kick off the week with announcements that help developers build stateful applications on top of Cloudflare, including making D1, our SQL database and Hyperdrive, our database accelerating service, generally available
Why Workers environment variables contain live objects
Bindings don't just reduce boilerplate. They are a core design feature of the Workers platform which simultaneously improve developer experience and application security in several ways. Usually these two goals are in opposition to each other, but bindings elegantly solve for both at the same time
Making crochet cacti
Making crochet cacti
Data Platform Explained Part I
As engineers working at Spotify, we frequently find ourselves explaining our robust data platform to fellow professionals who are contemplating embarking on a similar venture within their organizations. Despite the number of articles, blog posts, and talks one can find online, it can be challenging to digest the information about the building blocks of a data platform, how to start building one, a
Supercharged Developer Portals
Today, we announced Spotify’s latest products and services for companies adopting Backstage, the open source framework for building internal developer portals (IDPs). Whether your company needs a highly customized IDP built from scratch or an out-of-the-box solution that’s ready to go ASAP, we want to make it easy for anyone to maximize the value they get from their Backstage developer portal. You
Welcome to Developer Week 2024
We’re kicking off 2024’s Developer Week, and we’re excited to welcome you to the week and give you a small preview of what to expect, and how we’re thinking about the future of our platform
Colorful Blossoms And Rainy Days (April 2024 Wallpapers Edition) — Smashing Magazine
Could there be a better way to welcome the new month than with a little inspiration boost? We might have one for you: desktop wallpapers created by the community for the community. Enjoy!
Minimizing on-call burnout through alerts observability
Learn how Cloudflare used open-source tools to enhance alert observability, leading to increased resilience and improved on-call team well-being
The Power of :has() in CSS
Hey all you wonderful developers out there! In this post we are going to explore the use of :has() in your next web project. :has() is relatively newish but
How Developers Can Strengthen Their Mental Health Amidst High-Pressure Projects — Smashing Magazine
There’s no shortage of articles about the mental health of developers, ranging from personal accounts of harrowing work experiences to round-ups of advice on how to preserve healthy work habits. But what working situations trigger things like stress, anxiety, burnout, and depression? Victor Ayomipo shares his personal triggers and how he manages them.
Design Engineering at Vercel: What we do and how we do it
Design Engineers at Vercel blend aesthetic sensibility with technical skills. Learn about Vercel's philosophy on what Design Engineering is and how we work.
Demant achieves global scalability and 30x faster response times with Vercel
Empowering women through open source
A discussion about how tech is aiding organizations fighting for gender equality, what it means to be a woman in tech and the world today, and advice on how we all move forward.
Some Git poll results
Some Git poll results
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!
The Future Of User Research: Expert Insights And Key Trends — Smashing Magazine
Based on responses from over 1,200 product professionals, Maze’s Future of User Research Report uncovers how product teams conduct research to inform decision-making and build successful products. Learn about the top three trends defining the user research industry in 2024 and beyond.
From .com to .beauty: The evolving threat landscape of unwanted email
In this 2023-early 2024 email analysis, we examine how certain generic Top-Level Domains (TLDs) are primarily used for spam and phishing, and their evolution over a year.
Capturing A Billion Emo(j)i-ons
This blog post was written by Dedeepya Bonthu. This is a repost from her Medium article, approved by the author. In stadiums, sports fans love to express themselves by cheering for their favorite teams, holding up placards and team logos. Emoji’s allow fans at home to rapidly express themselves, and when millions of fans do it simultaneously, that’s a technical problem that we solved! At Hotstar,
Bringing HDR photo support to Instagram and Threads
Meta’s family of apps serves trillions of image download requests every day. And if you’re into high-quality images, you’ve probably noticed that Instagram and Threads have added support for high dynamic range (HDR) photos. Now people on Threads and Instagram can upload and share images that are more true-to-life, with the full color and range […]
Autonomous hardware diagnostics and recovery at scale
Operating hardware in 310 cities in 120 countries means that hardware can break anywhere and anytime. Detecting and managing server failure at scale requires automation. Here's how we automated
Using GitHub Copilot in your IDE: Tips, tricks, and best practices
GitHub Copilot is a powerful AI assistant. Learn practical strategies to get the most out of GitHub Copilot to generate the most relevant and useful code suggestions in your editor.
Setting And Persisting Color Scheme Preferences With CSS And A “Touch” Of JavaScript — Smashing Magazine
There are many ways to approach a “Dark Mode” feature that respects a user’s system color scheme preferences and allows for per-site customization. Henry Bley-Vroman walks through a new possibility that leans into cutting-edge CSS, with minimal JavaScript to support persisting the user’s color scheme preference across pages.
Linux Crisis Tools
Migrate to CYPEX
It is very easy to migrate your data with CYPEX. Try it out.
The "current branch" in git
The "current branch" in git
Protecting AI apps from bots and bad actors with Vercel and Kasada
Learn how Vercel protects the AI SDK Playground using our best-in-class DDoS mitigation, Next.js Middleware, and our partner Kasada.
Insider newsletter digest: 4 things you didn’t know you could do with GitHub Projects
Unlock the secret to organization and collaboration magic with our GitHub Projects tips and tricks roundup.
Threads has entered the fediverse
Threads has entered the fediverse! As part of our beta experience, now available in a few countries, Threads users aged 18+ with public profiles can now choose to share their Threads posts to other ActivityPub-compliant servers. People on those servers can now follow federated Threads profiles and see, like, reply to, and repost posts from […]
Port-scanning the fleet and trying to put out fires
Crafting Experiences: Uniting Rikyu’s Wisdom With Brand Experience Principles — Smashing Magazine
Whether digital or physical, designing a customer touchpoint requires an understanding of the essential relationship between the brand and the user experience, which is also known as the **brand experience.** This article is a simple guide to building long-lasting customer relationships based on the seven rules of Rikyu in the Japanese tea ceremony for a creative and memorable twist.
Introducing WARP Connector: paving the path to any-to-any connectivity
Starting today, Zero Trust administrators can deploy our new WARP Connector for simplified any-to-any connectivity
AI + design: Figma users tell us what’s coming next
What do designers, developers, and executives really think about the promise of AI? Our new survey aims to find out.
Found means fixed: Introducing code scanning autofix, powered by GitHub Copilot and CodeQL
Now in public beta for GitHub Advanced Security customers, code scanning autofix helps developers remediate more than two-thirds of supported alerts with little or no editing.
Optimizing RTC bandwidth estimation with machine learning
Bandwidth estimation (BWE) and congestion control play an important role in delivering high-quality real-time communication (RTC) across Meta’s family of apps. We’ve adopted a machine learning (ML)-based approach that allows us to solve networking problems holistically across cross-layers such as BWE, network resiliency, and transport. We’re sharing our experiment results from this approach, some