Does GitHub Copilot improve code quality? Here’s what the data says
Findings in our latest study show that the quality of code written with GitHub Copilot is significantly more functional, readable, reliable, maintainable, and concise.
Importing a frontend Javascript library without a build system
Astra Dynamic Chunks: How We Saved by Redesigning a Key Part of Astra
Introduction Slack handles a lot of log data. In fact, we consume over 6 million log messages per second. That equates to over 10 GB of data per second! And it’s all stored using Astra, our in-house, open-source log search engine. To make this data searchable, Astra groups it by time and splits the data…
AI SDK 4.0
Introducing PDF support, computer use, and an xAI Grok provider
Accelerating partner success: Vercel’s new Partner Program benefits
At Vercel, we see partnership and collaboration as keys to driving innovation and customer success. Vercel partners with consultants, agencies, global system integrators, tech partners, and cloud hyperscalers.
What’s new in Cloudflare: Account Owned Tokens and Zaraz Automated Actions
Cloudflare customers can now create Account Owned Tokens, allowing more flexibility around access control for their Cloudflare services. Additionally, Zaraz Automation Actions streamlines event tracking and third-party tool integration.
8 ways to craft an unforgettable Config talk
Where do inspirational people find inspiration? Our Config speakers share their favorite talks from 2024, revealing what makes a session truly stand out.
GitHub Availability Report: October 2024
In October, we experienced one incident that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.
How developers spend the time they save thanks to AI coding tools
Developers tell us how GitHub Copilot and other AI coding tools are transforming their work and changing how they spend their days.
There’s No Such Thing as a Free Lunch!
Incident Management takes time Incidents need responders that are trained and experienced. At Slack, training is a foundation of our incident management program. Self-service training and live courses based mainly on prepared content are one piece of the puzzle, but there can be a missing piece in many organizations. How can staff get practical experience…
Open-Source Meets Design Tooling With Penpot — 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’s explore its newly released Penpot Plugin System. So now, if there’s a functionality missing, you don’t need to jump into the code base straight away; you can create a plugin to achieve what you need. And you can even serve it from localhost!
Using ML to comply with SCA requirements
By applying ML to the process of navigating SCA requirements, we’re helping users reduce checkout friction while lowering fraud and increasing authorization rates.
Updating our web system for a new era
An inside look at how we leveraged Figma’s features to reimagine our web design system.
My 2024 thoughts on the state of social media
I see a continued fragmentation of social media as people leave X(Twitter).
Subscription business leaders are looking for a better way to combat churn
Our new report highlights trends and insights from more than 2,000 subscription business leaders. We learned that churn continues to be a looming concern, with 72% of survey respondents saying they’re worried about churn impacting their bottom line.
Anchoreum: A New Game for Learning Anchor Positioning
You've played Flexbox Froggy before, right? Or maybe Grid Garden? They're both absolute musts for learning the basics of modern CSS layout using Flexbox and CSS Grid. Thomas Park made those and he's back with another game: Anchoreum.
How Meta built large-scale cryptographic monitoring
Cryptographic monitoring at scale has been instrumental in helping our engineers understand how cryptography is used at Meta. Monitoring has given us a distinct advantage in our efforts to proactively detect and remove weak cryptographic algorithms and has assisted with our general change safety and reliability efforts. We’re sharing insights into our own cryptographic monitoring […]
Bundle Up And Save On Smashing Books And Workshops — Smashing Magazine
It’s the end of the year, and as we look at our inventory, we thought, “Let’s help everyone in our community get ready for the year ahead!” Get friendly pricing on bundles of books and workshops to dive deep into the subjects you care about most. Let’s bundle up and save!
How we built it: Payment method A/B testing
Building our payment method A/B testing tool was an industry first, and we had to find creative solutions to some of the most complex scenarios in A/B testing. We’ll share the key decisions we made—and lessons we learned—along the way.
Tim Brown: Flexible Typesetting is now yours, for free
Another title from A Book Apart has been re-released for free. The latest? Tim Brown's Flexible Typesetting. I may not be the utmost expert on typography and its best practices but I do remember reading this book (it's still on the shelf next to me!) thinking maybe, just maybe, I might be able to hold a conversation about it with Robin when I finished it.
New microblog with TILs
Quick Hit #28
I like how I'm hearing animations distinguished as "time-based animations" (or TBA) and "scroll-driven animations" (or SDA). A third? Maybe "navigation-based
Empowering Engineers with AI
Background and motivation In the fast-paced world of software development, having the right tools can make all the difference. At Slack, we’ve been working on a set of AI-powered developer tools that are saving 10,000+ hours of developer time yearly, while meeting our strictest requirements for security, data protection, and compliance. In this post, we’ll…
Alternatives To Typical Technical Illustrations And Data Visualisations — Smashing Magazine
Thomas Bohm rethinks technical illustrations and data visualizations, sharing interesting and uncommon examples of how to present data and information. Bar graphs and pie charts are great, but there’s so much more to explore!
Vercel named a Visionary in 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud Application Platforms
Vercel is proud to be recognized as a Visionary; we view this Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ as a validation of the Frontend Cloud ecosystem.
A look at the latest post-quantum signature standardization candidates
NIST has standardized four post-quantum signature schemes so far, and they’re not done yet: there are fourteen new candidates in the running for standardization. In this blog post we take measure of them and discover why we ended up with so many PQ signatures.
MotorTrend: Shifting into overdrive with Vercel
Exploring Internet traffic shifts and cyber attacks during the 2024 US election
Election Day 2024 in the US saw a surge in cyber activity. Cloudflare blocked several DDoS attacks on political and election sites, ensuring no impact. In this post, we analyze these attacks, as well Internet traffic increases across the US and other key trends.
Using the Strangler Fig with Mobile Apps
Incremental replacement of a legacy mobile application is a challenging concept to articulate and execute. However, we believe by making the investment in the pre-requisites of legacy modernization, it is posible to yield benefits in the long term. This article explores the Strangler Fig pattern and how it can be applied to mobile applications. We chart the journey of an enterprise who refused to
Why Optimizing Your Lighthouse Score Is Not Enough For A Fast Website — Smashing Magazine
Feeling good with your Lighthouse score of 100%? You should! But you should also know that you’re only looking at part of the performance picture. Learn how Lighthouse scores are measured differently than other tools, the impact that has on measuring performance metrics, and why you need real-user monitoring for a complete picture.
A Friendly Introduction to Container Queries
It’s been a couple of years since container queries started landing in browsers… so why isn’t anyone using them? It turns out that container queries are kinda tricky; they’re not as straightforward as media queries. In this tutorial, we’ll break it all down and make sense of them, so that you can start using them in your work.
I've had a change of heart regarding employee metrics
Game Off 2024 theme announcement
GitHub’s annual month-long game jam, where creativity knows no limits! Throughout November, dive into your favorite game engines, libraries, and programming languages to bring your wildest game ideas to life. Whether you’re a seasoned dev or just getting started, it’s all about having fun and making something awesome!
Congratulations to the Recipients of the 2024 Spotify FOSS Fund
TL;DR The Spotify FOSS Fund is back again! We created the Spotify FOSS Fund in 2022 to help support the open source ecosystem and to lend a monetary hand to those projects we use most at Spotify. This year, we’ve selected five projects to share the €100,000 fund (€20,000 each):
Workers Builds: integrated CI/CD built on the Workers platform
Workers Builds, an integrated CI/CD pipeline for the Workers platform, recently launched in open beta. We walk through how we built this product on Cloudflare’s Developer Platform.
Moving Baselime from AWS to Cloudflare: simpler architecture, improved performance, over 80% lower cloud costs
Post-acquisition, we migrated Baselime from AWS to the Cloudflare Developer Platform and in the process, we improved query times, simplified data ingestion, and now handle far more events, all while cutting costs. Here’s how we built a modern, high-performing observability platform on Cloudflare’s network.
ASCII control characters in my terminal
ASCII control characters in my terminal
Ingredients For A Cozy November (2024 Wallpapers Edition) — Smashing Magazine
November is just around the corner and that means: It’s time for some new desktop wallpapers! Created with love by the community for the community, they are available in versions with and without a calendar. Enjoy!
Break the news, not the site: Leading news organizations upgrade their infrastructure ahead of the election
Cloudflare’s perspective of the October 30, 2024, OVHcloud outage
On October 30, 2024, cloud hosting provider OVHcloud (AS16276) suffered a brief but significant outage. Within this post, we review Cloudflare’s perspective on this outage.
State of CSS 2024 Results
The results from this year's survey are fairly fresh off the presses. We took a little time to sit with them and jot down some things we noticed and found interesting.
Celebrating the GitHub Awards 2024 recipients 🎉
The GitHub Awards celebrates the outstanding contributions and achievements in the developer community by honoring individuals, projects, and organizations for creating an outsized positive impact on the community.
How We Built the BFCM 2023 Globe - Shopify
Every year for Black Friday Cyber Monday (BFCM), we put together a real-time visualization of purchases made through Shopify-powered merchants worldwide. This year we're cooking up something big, and in anticipation we wanted to show you how we built the globe last year. Video of BFCM 2023 Globe Besides going for better visuals, a big focus was performance. We've put together an interactive deep d
Designing For Gen Z: Expectations And UX Guidelines — Smashing Magazine
There are many myths revolving around Gen Z and how they use tech. Time to take a look at actual behavior patterns that go beyond heavy use of social media. Part of [Smart Interface Design Patterns](https://smart-interface-design-patterns.com) by yours truly.
A deep dive into Vercel’s build infrastructure
Vercel’s low-level untrusted and ephemeral compute platform is designed to give us the control needed to securely and efficiently manage and run builds.
AI Flame Graphs
Forced offline: the Q3 2024 Internet disruption summary
The third quarter of 2024 was particularly active, with quite a few significant Internet disruptions. Underlying causes included government-directed shutdowns, power outages, hurricane damage, terrestrial and submarine cable cuts, military action, and more.
Migrating billions of records: moving our active DNS database while it’s in use
According to a survey done by W3Techs, as of October 2024, Cloudflare is used as an authoritative DNS provider by 14.5% of all websites
Tooltip Best Practices
What are tooltips, exactly? There's two kinds and the one you use has implications on the user experience, as Zell illustrates in this explainer on best practices.
Pure CYBERTEC power in Athens!
The CYBERTEC team was also present at PGConf.eu in Athens in 2024. Jan has included all his experiences for you in this blog post.
New from Universe 2024: Get the latest previews and releases
Find out how we’re evolving GitHub and GitHub Copilot—and get access to the latest previews and GA releases.
Bringing developer choice to Copilot with Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Google’s Gemini 1.5 Pro, and OpenAI’s o1-preview
At GitHub Universe, we announced Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Google’s Gemini 1.5 Pro, and OpenAI’s o1-preview and o1-mini are coming to GitHub Copilot—bringing a new level of choice to every developer.
Octoverse: AI leads Python to top language as the number of global developers surges
In this year’s Octoverse report, we study how public and open source activity on GitHub shows how AI is expanding as the global developer community surges in size.
How I increased my visibility
Someone asked me this and here's my answer.
Set me right on whether caring is even possible
Our biggest-ever upgrades to Stripe Billing
At Stripe Tour New York, we shared new ways to orchestrate and grow your revenue with Stripe Billing, including new features to help you better understand your revenue data and give you more flexibility in how you bill for usage.
Using less memory to look up IP addresses in Mess With DNS
Using less memory to look up IP addresses in Mess With DNS
Elephants in tunnels: how Hyperdrive connects to databases inside your VPC networks
Hyperdrive (Cloudflare’s globally distributed SQL connection pooler and cache) recently added support for directing database traffic from Workers across Cloudflare Tunnels. We dive deep on what it took to add this feature.
How we built AI search in Figma
How we built a search tool that’s changing the way designers find and use existing work
Diff Authoring Time: Measuring developer productivity at Meta
At Meta, we’re always looking for ways to enhance the productivity of our engineers and developers. But how exactly do you measure developer productivity? On this episode of the Meta Tech Podcast Pascal Hartig (@passy) sits down with Sarita and Moritz, two engineers at Meta who have been working on Diff Authoring Time (DAT) – a […]