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.
Building new custom silicon for Meta’s AI workloads
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Building an infrastructure for AI’s future
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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
Introducing the next-gen Meta Training and Inference Accelerator
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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
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
