Dealing with diverged git branches
Dealing with diverged git branches
Applying the Facade Pattern on Spotify for Artists
At Spotify, we’re dedicated to delivering a unified experience to our customers — which can sometimes be at odds with the vast, autonomous structure of . To prevent from becoming a reality, we have to be vigilant, ensuring our diverse, geographically dispersed teams don’t unintentionally create fragmented user experiences.
LangChain Support for Workers AI, Vectorize and D1
During Developer Week, we announced LangChain support for Cloudflare Workers. Since then, we’ve been working with the LangChain team on deeper integration of many tools across Cloudflare’s developer platform and are excited to share what we’ve been up to
Everything you need to know about Dev Mode
Our product philosophy, how we got here, and what’s up next.
The art and science of annotations in Dev Mode
A behind the scenes look at how we built annotations in Dev Mode.
29 Days Of Inspiration (February 2024 Wallpapers Edition) — Smashing Magazine
With February just around the corner, how about a little inspiration boost? We might have one for you: desktop wallpapers created with love by the community for the community. Enjoy!
How streaming helps build faster web applications
Learn why streaming is critical for performance and how the Next.js App Router integrates with React Suspense to easily enable streaming UI.
Peter Yang’s 10 rules for making products that customers love
Product lead Peter Yang taps into his decade-plus career to explain why staying focused on the craft is a product manager’s superpower.
Improving machine learning iteration speed with faster application build and packaging
Slow build times and inefficiencies in packaging and distributing execution files were costing our ML/AI engineers a significant amount of time while working on our training stack. By addressing these issues head-on, we were able to reduce this overhead by double-digit percentages. In the fast-paced world of AI/ML development, it’s crucial to ensure that our […]
The Feature Trap: Why Feature Centricity Is Harming Your Product — Smashing Magazine
Most product teams commonly adopt a feature-centric mindset, finding them convenient for brainstorming, drafting requirement documents, and integrating into backlogs and ticketing systems. In this article, Andy Budd shows how fixation with features might be holding you back and how making a few small tweaks to your process could make an entire world of difference.
Reflecting on the GDPR to celebrate Privacy Day 2024
On Privacy Day 2024, we answer the EU Commission’s call for reflection on how the GDPR has been functioning by pointing out two ways in which the GDPR has been applied that actually may harm people’s privacy
Inside .git
Inside .git
A Simple Guide To Retrieval Augmented Generation Language Models — Smashing Magazine
Language models have shown impressive capabilities. But that doesn’t mean they’re without faults, as anyone who has witnessed a ChatGPT “hallucination” can attest. In this article, Joas Pambou diagnoses the symptoms that cause hallucinations and explains not only what RAG is but also different approaches for using it to solve language model limitations.
What’s next for Dev Mode: annotations, compare changes, plugins, and more
The improvements we're making as Dev Mode moves out of free beta on January 31.
Do you know if all your repositories have up-to-date dependencies?
Consider deploying the GitHub Action: Evergreen so that you know each of your repositories are leveraging active dependency management with Dependabot.
GitHub Fund 2024 and beyond: Looking to the future
Celebrate the first year of GitHub Fund, our first investments, and a brief look of where we’re going.
CSS Blurry Shimmer Effect — Smashing Magazine
Taking inspiration from shadows, author Yair Even Or creates the same sort of thing, only with a blurring effect in place of the shadow. Read along for a step-by-step explanation of how it comes together using a combination of masks, gradients, and the good ol’ `backdrop-filter` property.
Introducing Foundations - our open source Rust service foundation library
Foundations is a foundational Rust library, designed to help scale programs for distributed, production-grade systems
How GitHub’s Developer Experience team improved innerloop development
Our latest solution to the ubiquitous engineering problem of integration testing in a distributed service ecosystem here at GitHub.
Hold on there: WPA3 connections fail after 11 hours
WPA3 on Raspberry Pi 3B+, 4B and 5B with iwd (or not...)
How Cloudflare’s AI WAF proactively detected the Ivanti Connect Secure critical zero-day vulnerability
The issuance of Emergency Rules by Cloudflare on January 17, 2024, helped give customers a big advantage in dealing with these threats
PostgreSQL: Why true Open Source matters
Data oulives applications. Data matters. So does reliable and well maintained software as well. Read more about Open Source benefits.
Improving performance with incremental frame loading
Large prototypes took minutes to load, and users took notice. Here’s how we overhauled our prototype player to improve load time and stability.
A guide to open source for the social sector
Calling all nonprofits! Do you want to implement open source software but don’t know where to start? We’ve got good news; you can easily get started by consulting our new guide.
Yes, good DevEx increases productivity. Here is the data.
Explore how DevEx boosts productivity and innovation according to new research.
The AI Dilemma In Graphic Design: Steering Towards Excellence In Typography And Beyond — Smashing Magazine
AI promises a major upheaval in typography, with designers finding themselves navigating both opportunities and challenges. How will it impact quality, design roles, and our use of type in the future? As we explore this new frontier, we realise that we are at a juncture as significant as Gutenberg’s press, set to redefine how we interact with text and visual communication.
How we built it: Smart Retries
How Stripe built Smart Retries, which predicts the optimal time to retry a failed payment using machine learning algorithms trained on billions of data points across the Stripe network.
Q4 2023 Internet disruption summary
In this post, we review selected Internet disruptions observed by Cloudflare during the fourth quarter of 2023, supported by traffic graphs from Cloudflare Radar and other internal Cloudflare tools, and grouped by associated cause or common geography
Issue no.3: The handoff
Figma’s editorial newsletter about how products take shape—and shape our world.
How to get in the flow while coding (and why it’s important)
Explore what flow state entails, its benefits, and three tips for reaching it the next time you code.
10 unexpected ways to use GitHub Copilot
GitHub Copilot is widely known for its code generation feature. Learn how the AI assistant’s abilities can extend beyond just code generation.
How Core Web Vitals & Lighthouse scores affect SEO Rankings
Understand your application's Google page experience ranking and Lighthouse scores. We'll dive into what they are, how they’re measured, and how your users and search ranking are impacted by them.
Continuous Integration
Continuous Integration is a software development practice where each member of a team merges their changes into a codebase together with their colleagues changes at least daily. Each of these integrations is verified by an automated build (including test) to detect integration errors as quickly as possible. Teams find that this approach reduces the risk of delivery delays, reduces the effort of in
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!
Insider newsletter digest: Build from anywhere
Explore the August 2023 edition, featuring easy tips and tricks for GitHub Mobile.
New data and visualizations highlight the resilience of international developer collaboration
Discover the latest trends and insights on public software development activity on GitHub with the release of Q3 2023 data for the Innovation Graph.
Lazy is the new fast: How Lazy Imports and Cinder accelerate machine learning at Meta
At Meta, the quest for faster model training has yielded an exciting milestone: the adoption of Lazy Imports and the Python Cinder runtime. The outcome? Up to 40 percent time to first batch (TTFB) improvements, along with a 20 percent reduction in Jupyter kernel startup times. This advancement facilitates swifter experimentation capabilities and elevates the […]
The Scary Thing About Automating Deploys
Most of Slack runs on a monolithic service simply called “The Webapp”. It’s big – hundreds of developers create hundreds of changes every week. Deploying at this scale is a unique challenge. When people talk about continuous deployment, they’re often thinking about deploying to systems as soon as changes are ready. They talk about microservices…
GitHub Availability Report: December 2023
In December, we experienced three incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.
GitHub-hosted runners: Double the power for open source
GitHub Actions continues its industry-leading support for the OSS community by doubling the Windows/Linux machine size to 4-vCPU runners at no cost for public repositories.
A developer’s second brain: Reducing complexity through partnership with AI
As we look to empower developers with AI tools, we inadvertently integrate AI deeper into the way developers work. How do developers feel about that? And what are the most impactful ways to introduce more AI into workflows? We recently conducted 25 in-depth interviews with developers to understand exactly that.
Horizontally scaling the Rails backend of Shop app with Vitess - Shopify
Shop app horizontally scaled a Ruby on Rails app with Vitess. This blog describes Vitess and our detailed approach for introducing Vitess to a Rails app.
Rotating credentials for GitHub.com and new GHES patches
GitHub received a bug bounty report of a vulnerability that allowed access to the environment variables of a production container. We have patched GitHub.com and rotated all affected credentials. If you have hardcoded or cached a public key owned by GitHub, read on to ensure your systems continue working with the new keys.
The Complex But Awesome CSS border-image Property — Smashing Magazine
The CSS `border-image` property is one of those properties you undoubtedly know exists but may not have ever reached for. In this article, Temani Afif demonstrates different approaches for using `border-image` to create clever decorative accents and shapes.
Architecting a live look at reliability: Stripe's viral Black Friday site
Cloud Services and Fully Managed Postgres
Cloud services are not a thing to get around. Read more about what you should take in consideration when using Postgres Cloud services.
Empowering Uruguay’s future workforce with AI
During the second cycle of Git Commit Uruguay, students learned the basics of AI and built their own AI-powered projects.
How Meta is advancing GenAI
What’s going on with generative AI (GenAI) at Meta? And what does the future have in store? In this episode of the Meta Tech Podcast, Meta engineer Pascal Hartig (@passy) speaks with Devi Parikh, an AI research director at Meta. They cover a wide range of topics, including the history and future of GenAI and the most […]
Top Front-End Tools Of 2023 — Smashing Magazine
Useful front-end tools for CSS and JavaScript developers that were most popular last year and will help you speed up your development workflow. Let’s dive in!
Rebuilding Netflix Video Processing Pipeline with Microservices
An introductory blog providing an overview of Netflix's new microservices-based video pipeline. Future blogs will provide deeper dives into each service, sharing insights and lessons learned from this process.
Introducing Cloudflare’s 2024 API security and management report
Today, we’re releasing our 2024 API Security and Management Report. This blog introduces and is a supplement to the API Security and Management Report for 2024 where we detail exactly how we’re protecting our customers, and what it means for the future of API security
DDoS threat report for 2023 Q4
Welcome to the sixteenth edition of Cloudflare’s DDoS Threat Report. This edition covers DDoS trends and key findings for the fourth and final quarter of the year 2023, complete with a review of major trends throughout the year
How Razorpay sharpened developer workflows
A conversation with Razorpay's design systems team.
Game Off 2023 results 🏆
The GitHub Game Off results are in! All games have been rated, ranked, and reviewed. Read on for a look at the 10 highest-rated submissions overall.
An overview of Cloudflare's logging pipeline
In this post, we’re going to go over what that looks like, how we achieve high availability, and how we meet our Service Level Objectives (SLOs) while shipping close to a million log lines per second
GitHub Certifications are generally available
Unlock your full potential with GitHub Certifications! Earning a GitHub certification will give you the competitive advantage of showing up as a GitHub expert.
GitHub and the Ekoparty 2023 Capture the Flag
The GitHub Security Lab teamed up with Ekoparty once again to create some challenges for its yearly Capture the Flag competition!
Frenemies to friends: Developers and security tools
When socializing a new security tool, it IS possible to build a bottom-up security culture where engineering has a seat at the table. Let’s explore some effective strategies witnessed by the GitHub technical sales team to make this shift successful.
SolidStart: A Different Breed Of Meta-Framework — Smashing Magazine
Are you ready for a little exercise of pulling a framework apart and putting the pieces back together? In this article, Atila Fassina explains how meta-frameworks have evolved around core libraries in their own unique ways.
