How we’re using GitHub Projects to standardize our workflows and stay aligned
Learn how we’re managing feature releases and establishing best practices within and across teams at GitHub using GitHub Projects.
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GitHub Copilot Enterprise is now generally available
Our most advanced AI offering to date is customized to your organization’s knowledge and codebase, infusing GitHub Copilot throughout the software development lifecycle.
Reporting Core Web Vitals With The Performance API — Smashing Magazine
The Performance API is a set of standards for measuring and evaluating performance metrics with JavaScript. This article demonstrates how to use the Performance API to generate performance metrics directly in the DOM to create your own reporting.
TDE: A dive into encrypted data
In this article we will tell you how you can find out, if your TDE works and if files on disk are encrypted.
Running HUGE numbers of migrations
CYBERTEC Migrator allows you to run huge numbers of migrations by cloning definitions and re-running the same process over again.
Kubernetes- and OpenShift- ready migration to PostgreSQL
CYBERTEC Migrator is fully Kubernetes- and OpenShift-ready. We rely on modern container technology, which is perfect for quick deployment.
How AI will influence creative tools: A conversation with Replit’s David Hoang
Replit's VP of Marketing and Design David Hoang talks about how AI is reshaping the future of product design and development.
How DotSlash makes executable deployment simpler
Andres Suarez and Michael Bolin, two software engineers at Meta, join Pascal Hartig (@passy) on the Meta Tech Podcast to discuss the ins and outs of DotSlash, a new open source tool from Meta. DotSlash takes the pain out of distributing binaries and toolchains to developers. Instead of committing large, platform-specific executables to a repository, […]
A Designer’s Accessibility Advocacy Toolkit — Smashing Magazine
Digital designer Yichan Wang has put together this collection of strategies and selling points to help you encourage and advocate for accessibility in your place of work, including useful scripts you can use as starting points.
Deploying safely on Vercel without merge queues
Deploy quickly and safely with Vercel without merge queues
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Highlights from Git 2.44
The first Git release of 2024 is here! Take a look at some of our highlights on what’s new in Git 2.44.
How AI code generation works
Explore the capabilities and benefits of AI code generation, and how it can improve the developer experience for your enterprise.
Insider newsletter digest: Cook up a controller with GitHub Copilot
Whether you’re coding up a storm or cooking up code, building a controller function with AI is your secret sauce to a flavorful app.
Vanilla JavaScript, Libraries, And The Quest For Stateful DOM Rendering — Smashing Magazine
It’s well-established that the web faces wide-ranging usability and performance issues, from user-hostile UI patterns and twisted search results to sluggish performance and battery-draining bloat. In this article, Frederik examines one small-but-significant aspect where developers take the reins: Painting pixels on the screen.
The disruption the auto industry has been waiting for
Leading auto companies are partnering with Stripe to better serve their customers and find new revenue opportunities.
Repo-jacking explained: How it works and how to protect your GitHub projects
Repo-jacking is a specific type of supply chain attack. This blog post explains what it is, what the risk is, and what you can do to stay safe.
Empowering all developers to build without barriers
GitHub has been awarded the 2024 Axe Accessibility at Scale Award from Deque Systems. Read more about how we’ve implemented accessibility at scale.
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Maximize Uptime with Vercel's Frontend Cloud: How Vercel ensures highly available, globally performant dynamic applications. Even during massive traffic spikes.
Vercel's Frontend Cloud is designed with high availability at its core, to maintain uptime for dynamic applications.
Aligning Velox and Apache Arrow: Towards composable data management
We’ve partnered with Voltron Data and the Arrow community to align and converge Apache Arrow with Velox, Meta’s open source execution engine. Apache Arrow 15 includes three new format layouts developed through this partnership: StringView, ListView, and Run-End-Encoding (REE). This new convergence helps Meta and the larger community build data management systems that are unified, […]
A Practical Guide To Designing For Colorblind People — Smashing Magazine
Color accessibility is more than just ticking boxes. Even with good contrast, some color palettes can make interfaces challenging for users. Here are some practical guidelines to ensure more inclusive design for colorblind people. An upcoming part of Smart Interface Design Patterns.
PostgreSQL to Microsoft Excel via Npgsql
Find out how you can integrate and store the use of data in PostgreSQL from Excel with Npgsql. For all Excel heroes here.
Mobile Accessibility Barriers For Assistive Technology Users — Smashing Magazine
Accessibility goes beyond making products user-friendly. It can significantly impact the quality of life for people with disabilities. Kate Kalcevich shares lessons she learned from assistive technology users — challenges and barriers they encounter on mobile devices.
Monitoring machine learning models for bot detection
We recently shared an introduction to Cloudflare’s approach to MLOps, which provides a holistic overview of model training and deployment processes at Cloudflare. In this post, we will dig deeper into monitoring, and how we continuously evaluate the models that power Bot Management
Popular git config options
Popular git config options
Safeguarding your brand identity: Logo Matching for Brand Protection
Brand Protection's Logo Matching feature enables users to upload an image of the user’s logo or other brand image. The system scans URLs to discover matching logos and then presents the results for users to review
Build code security skills with the GitHub Secure Code Game
Learn to find and fix security issues while having fun with Secure Code Game, now with new challenges focusing on JavaScript, Python, Go, and GitHub Actions!
Shaping the future: Cloudflare's service partner strategy
Cloudflare excels in digital transformation, boasting a global network across 310 cities and 13,000 networks. The Global Partner Services Team fosters diverse partnerships with VARs, SIs, GSIs, MSPs, enhancing service delivery and expanding reach
5 things designers need to know for a smooth handoff
Figma Designer Advocate Lauren Andres shares her tips for streamlining handoff.
GitHub Availability Report: January 2024
In January, we experienced three incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.
Fixing security vulnerabilities with AI
A peek under the hood of GitHub Advanced Security code scanning autofix.
LDAP differ feedback and the "666" I missed
How Accessibility Standards Can Empower Better Chart Visual Design — Smashing Magazine
Accessibility for data visualization extends well beyond web standards, at least if you’re trying to create an experience that’s actually useful. This article focuses on techniques for creating useful and accessible visualizations that extend well beyond compliance.
Vercel Functions: Faster, modern, and more scalable
Our first major iteration of Vercel Functions with increased concurrency, longer durations, faster cold starts, streaming, and more.
Vercel and WPP: World-class creativity enabled by technology
Vercel and WPP: World-class creativity enabled by technology, with six trends driving the future of the web.
Enhancing Zaraz support: introducing certified developers
The Cloudflare Zaraz ecosystem is expanding! Read more to learn how you can now connect with Certified Zaraz Developers to help you with migrating to Zaraz, maintaining your configuration and more
Using OAuth 2.0 with offline access
Learn how to use the Dropbox OAuth 2.0 app authorization flow with offline access
The anatomy of a Super Bowl ad
How learning app Duolingo’s cheeky five-second spot beat the odds in a crowded field.
Engineering Practices for LLM Application Development
LLM engineering involves much more than just prompt design or prompt engineering. In this article, we share a set of engineering practices that helped us deliver a prototype LLM application rapidly and reliably in a recent project. We'll share techniques for automated testing and adversarial testing of LLM applications, refactoring, as well as considerations for architecting LLM applications and r
Bringing npm registry services to GitHub Codespaces
The npm engineering team recently transitioned to using GitHub Codespaces for local development for npm registry services. This shift to Codespaces has substantially reduced the friction of our inner development loop and boosted developer productivity.
Powering advancements of AI in the open: Apply now to GitHub Accelerator
Funding AI advancements in the open, and opening applications for second Accelerator cohort.
How To Center a Div
Back in the day, centering an element was one of the trickiest things in CSS. As the language has evolved, we’ve been given lots of new tools we can use… But how do we pick the best option? When do we use Flexbox, or CSS Grid, or something else? Let's dig into it.
A Practical Guide To Designing For Children — Smashing Magazine
How to design for children aged 3–12, with insights into user behavior, considerations for parents, and practical UX guidelines.
Cloudflare defeats patent troll Sable at trial
Last Thursday, on a clear, sunny morning in Waco, Texas, a jury returned a verdict after less than two hours of deliberation. The jury found that Cloudflare did not infringe the patent asserted against Cloudflare by patent trolls Sable IP and Sable Networks.
The four quadrants of an Oracle migration
This post aims to discuss the four quadrants from Oracle. Also we will show, how you can save time and money with a migration with CYPEX.
Design system 101: What is a design system?
Uncover what a design system is, types, best practices, and when to use it. Discover Figma’s solutions for multi-brand systems and compare design systems vs style guides.
Get started with v4 of GitHub Actions Artifacts
We listened to your feedback and released new versions (v4) of actions/upload-artifact and actions/download-artifact. While this version of the actions to upload and download artifacts includes up to 10x performance improvements and several new features, there are also key differences from previous versions that may require updates to your workflows.
The architecture of SAST tools: An explainer for developers
More developers will have to fix security issues in the age of shifting left. Here, we break down how SAST tools can help them find and address vulnerabilities.
Meta loves Python
By now you’re already aware that Python 3.12 has been released. But did you know that several of its new features were developed by Meta? Meta engineer Pascal Hartig (@passy) is joined on the Meta Tech Podcast by Itamar Oren and Carl Meyer, two software engineers at Meta, to discuss their teams’ contributions to the […]
Finishing Turborepo's migration from Go to Rust
We've finished porting Turborepo, the high performance JavaScript and TypeScript build system, from Go to Rust.
Copilot in GitHub Support is now available!
Experience AI-powered assistance for queries related to GitHub topics.
How To Draw Radar Charts In Web — Smashing Magazine
A radar chart — also commonly called a spider chart — is yet another way to visualize data and make connections. Radar charts are inherently geometric, making them both a perfect fit and fun to make with CSS, thanks to the `polygon()` function. Read along as Preethi Sam demonstrates the process and sprinkles it with a pinch of JavaScript to make a handy, reusable component.
connect() - why are you so slow?
This is our story of what we learned about the connect() implementation for TCP in Linux. Both its strong and weak points. How connect() latency changes under pressure, and how to open connection so that the syscall latency is deterministic and time-bound
CYPEX Rapid Prototyping
Rapid prototyping builds a user experience from customer feedback instead of trying to work from a spec. Save time and prevent stress.
CYPEX - graphical PostgreSQL app development
CYPEX graphical PostgreSQL app development cuts your development costs by providing customers with instant visual feedback.
High speed data migration: maintaining performance
You are looking for high speed data migration? Tests have shown that CYBERTEC Migrator can reach up to 1.5 GB / second.
Oracle to PostgreSQL: Technical quick guide
This quick-start migration guide show various aspects you need to take into consideration when migrating from Oracle to PostgreSQL.
GitHub’s Engineering Fundamentals program: How we deliver on availability, security, and accessibility
The Fundamentals program has helped us address tech debt, improve reliability, and enhance observability of our engineering systems.
