GitHub Enterprise Cloud with data residency: How we built the next evolution of GitHub Enterprise using GitHub
How we used GitHub to build GitHub Enterprise Cloud with data residency.
More jabbering from me about non-clown hosting
Driving a Project: Intern Edition
After a lot of hard work, you’ve landed that coveted internship. Now comes the next big challenge: delivering a meaningful project over the summer. Leading a project independently is an opportunity to sharpen your skills, demonstrate your capabilities, and experience personal growth. As you drive the project on your own, the support from your mentor…
The Timeless Power Of Spreadsheets — Smashing Magazine
In this age of endless newfangled organizational tools, the spreadsheet holds firm. Frederick O’Brien explains how, from engineering to design, they can still provide a rock-solid foundation for your work.
Cloudflare’s 2024 Annual Founders’ Letter
Cloudflare launched on September 27, 2010. This week we celebrate our fourteenth birthday
A terrible way to jump into colocating your own stuff
Removing uncertainty through "what-if" capacity planning
Cloudflare’s Capacity Planning team discusses planning for “what-if” type scenarios, and how they’ve introduced a new “Scenario Planner” system to quickly model hypothetical future changes
Cloudflare incident on September 17, 2024
On September 17, 2024, during planned routine maintenance, Cloudflare stopped announcing 15 IPv4 prefixes, affecting some Business plan websites for approximately one hour. During this time, IPv4 traffic for these customers would not have reached Cloudflare and users attempting to connect to websites using addresses within those prefixes would have received errors.
CSSWG Minutes Telecon (2024-09-18)
For the past two months, all my livelihood has gone towards reading, researching, understanding, writing, and editing about Anchor Positioning, and with many
Quick Hit #21
Seeing a lot more headlines decrying JavaScript and pumping up PHP. Always interesting to see which direction the front-end zeitgeist is leaning.
AI SDK 3.4
AI SDK 3.4 introduces middleware, data stream protocol, and multi-step generations
From CDNs to Frontend Clouds
Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) and Infrastructure as code (IaC) evolved into the next generation of web application delivery.
How Cloudflare is helping domain owners with the upcoming Entrust CA distrust by Chrome and Mozilla
Chrome and Mozilla will stop trusting Entrust’s public TLS certificates issued after November 2024 due to concerns about Entrust’s compliance with security standards. In response, Entrust is partnering with SSL.com to continue providing trusted certificates. Cloudflare will support SSL.com as a CA, simplifying certificate management for customers using Entrust by automating issuance and renewals.
The VS Code method: Tightening a developer’s inner loop
How VS Code gets developers into the flow state
Try out OpenAI o1 in GitHub Copilot and Models
OpenAI o1-preview and o1-mini are now available in GitHub Copilot Chat in VS Code and in the GitHub Models playground.
Embracing Introversion In UX — Smashing Magazine
This article aims to celebrate the power of introversion in UX research and design. Victor Yocco debunks common misconceptions, explores the unique strengths introverted researchers and designers bring to the table, and offers practical tips for thriving in a field that sometimes seems tailored for extroverts.
The 10 best tools to green your software
Looking for ways to code in a more sustainable way? We’ve got you covered with our top list of tools to help lower your carbon footprint.
Software as a public good
Open source software underpins all sectors of the economy, public services and even international organizations like the United Nations. How can all its beneficiaries work together to make the open source ecosystem more sustainable?
SVG Coding Examples: Useful Recipes For Writing Vectors By Hand — Smashing Magazine
Myriam Frisano explores the basics of hand-coding SVGs with practical examples to demystify the inner workings of common SVG elements. In this guide, you’ll learn about asking the right questions to solve common positioning problems and how to leverage JavaScript so that, by the end, you can add “SVG coding” to your toolbox. You’ll also be able to declare proudly, “I know how to draw literal pictu
Clever Polypane Debugging Features I'm Loving
I'm working on a refresh of my personal website, what I'm calling the HD remaster. Well, I wouldn't call it a "full" redesign. I'm just cleaning things up,
Celebrating Partnerships: Our First Partner Event in Wöllersdorf
In September 2024 we have been celebrating partnerships: Our first partner event in our headquarter in Wöllersdorf took place.
Enhancing the GitHub Copilot ecosystem with Copilot Extensions, now in public beta
Whether you’re an individual developer looking to streamline your workflow or an organization aiming to integrate proprietary tools, GitHub Copilot Extensions now offers a platform to make that happen and to share your creations on the GitHub Marketplace.
Inside Bento: Jupyter Notebooks at Meta
This episode of the Meta Tech Podcast is all about Bento, Meta’s internal distribution of Jupyter Notebooks, an open-source web-based computing platform. Bento allows our engineers to mix code, text, and multimedia in a single document and serves a wide range of use cases at Meta from prototyping to complex machine learning workflows. Pascal Hartig […]
Advancing Our Chef Infrastructure
At Slack, we manage tens of thousands of EC2 instances that host a variety of services, including our Vitess databases, Kubernetes workers, and various components of the Slack application. The majority of these instances run on some version of Ubuntu, while a portion operates on Amazon Linux. With such a vast infrastructure, the critical question…
Creating Custom Lottie Animations With SVGator — Smashing Magazine
Creating ready-to-implement Lottie animations with a single tool is now possible thanks to SVGator’s latest feature updates. In this article, you will learn how to create and animate a Lottie using SVGator, an online animation tool that has zero learning curve if you’re familiar with at least one design tool.
Managing 275 thousand pages and 8 million assets at top speed with ISR
Multiple Anchors
Only Chris, right? You'll want to view this in a Chromium browser:
Figma on Figma: Evolving our visual language
From playful primitives to a vibrant new palette, we’re unveiling our latest brand evolution—one that speaks to all product builders.
Incremental Static Regeneration (ISR): A flexible way to cache dynamic content
Explore how Incremental Static Regeneration (ISR) enhances your caching strategy. Learn its benefits, implementation across frameworks, and real-world applications. Optimize performance with this hybrid approach to dynamic content delivery.
Two CSS Properties for Trimming Text Box Whitespace
The text-box-trim and text-box-edge properties in CSS enable developers to trim specifiable amounts of the whitespace that appear above the
Another feed reader score roundup
Deploying dreams: An inside look at a summer internship with Vercel
What's an internship like at Vercel? Hear firsthand from one of Vercel's summer interns what the process was like, what they worked on, and what they learned.
Protecting APIs from abuse using sequence learning and variable order Markov chains
At Cloudflare, we protect customer APIs from abuse. This is no easy task, as abusive traffic can take different forms, from giant DDoS attacks to low-and-slow credential stuffing campaigns. We now address this challenge in a new way: by looking outside typical volumetric measures and using statistical machine learning to find important API client request sequences.
What’s Old is New
I collect a bunch of links in a bookmarks folder. These are things I fully intend to read, and I do — eventually. It's a good thing bookmarks are digital,
Customizing scopes in the OAuth app authorization flow
Learn how to configure and customize which scopes your app requests during the Dropbox OAuth 2 app authorization flow.
First Look: Exploring OpenAI o1 in GitHub Copilot
We’ve tested integrating OpenAI o1-preview with GitHub Copilot. Here’s a first look at where we think it can add value to your day to day.
Reasons I still love the fish shell
Reasons I still love the fish shell
How To Build Custom Data Visualizations Using Luzmo Flex — Smashing Magazine
Bringing data to life in your application can be done without the usual headaches. Paul Scanlon shows you how you can build beautiful data visualizations using the Google Analytics API, and you won’t have to spend any time “massaging” the data.
Customers get increased integration with Cloudflare Email Security and Zero Trust through expanded partnership with CrowdStrike
This post explains how our integrations with CrowdStrike Falcon® Next-Gen SIEM allow customers to identify and investigate risky user behavior and analyze data combined with other log sources to uncover hidden threats.
How the Harris-Trump US presidential debate influenced Internet traffic
See how the first 2024 US presidential debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump influenced Internet traffic patterns compared to the Biden-Trump debate. We also review email trends and observed attack activity.
GitHub Availability Report: August 2024
In August, we experienced one incident that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.
Streamlining your MLOps pipeline with GitHub Actions and Arm64 runners
Explore how Arm’s optimized performance and cost-efficient architecture, coupled with PyTorch, can enhance machine learning operations, from model training to deployment and learn how to leverage CI/CD for machine learning workflows, while reducing time, cost, and errors in the process.
The pricing model dilemma, according to 2,000+ subscription business leaders
We surveyed more than 2,000 subscription business leaders from around the world and learned that they increasingly want to experiment with pricing models, but there is one thing in their way: their billing systems.
A good day to trie-hard: saving compute 1% at a time
Pingora handles 35M+ requests per second, so saving a few microseconds per request can translate to thousands of dollars saved on computing costs. In this post, we share how we freed up over 500 CPU cores by optimizing one function and announce trie-hard, the open source crate that we created to do it.
Anchor Positioning Quirks
I am thrilled to say, that from this week onwards, the CSS-Tricks Almanac has an entry for each property, function, and at-rule related to the new Anchor
Sanding UI
Jim hit a snag while working on a form. Placing labels next to inputs is trivial with flexbox, sure, but what happened in Jim's case was a bit of
Why "SELECT * FROM table" is NOT a read
People tend to think that a SELECT-operation is always a read. This might look obvious and make sense but does it actually hold true?
Fine-tuned models are now in limited public beta for GitHub Copilot Enterprise
Fine-tuned models empower organizations to receive code suggestions specifically tailored to their coding practices and internal languages.
Simulator-based reinforcement learning for data center cooling optimization
We’re sharing more about the role that reinforcement learning plays in helping us optimize our data centers’ environmental controls. Our reinforcement learning-based approach has helped us reduce energy consumption and water usage across various weather conditions in our data centers. Meta is revamping its new data center design to optimize for artificial intelligence and the […]
Pushy to the Limit: Evolving Netflix’s WebSocket proxy for the future
Pushy is Netflix’s WebSocket server that maintains persistent WebSocket connections with devices running the Netflix application. This…
Why Anticipatory Design Isn’t Working For Businesses — Smashing Magazine
Anticipatory design, powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine learning (ML), and Big Data (BD), promises to transform user experiences by predicting and fulfilling needs before users even express them. While this proactive approach seems revolutionary, many businesses struggle to meet the high expectations it sets. Joana Cerejo delves into the challenges of anticipatory design, highlights
More NPM packages on Cloudflare Workers: Combining polyfills and native code to support Node.js APIs
Workers now supports more NPM packages and Node.js APIs using an overhauled hybrid compatibility layer.
Sticky Headers And Full-Height Elements: A Tricky Combination
Quite a fun article I worked on with Philip Braunen. Do you know that little bit of elasticity you get when scrolling beyond the viewport when browsing the
Beginner’s guide to GitHub: Setting up and securing your profile
As part of the GitHub for Beginners guide, learn how to improve the security of your profile and create a profile README. This will let you give your GitHub account a little more personality.
The Undeniable Utility Of CSS :has
Of all the latest and greatest CSS features, the “:has” pseudo-class wasn’t exactly at the top of my wishlist. Once I started using it, however, I kept discovering incredible things I could do with it. It’s now become a core part of my toolkit! In this blog post, I'll show you some practical real-world problems I solved using “:has”, as well as some wild experiments that blew my mind!
How To Create A Weekly Google Analytics Report That Posts To Slack — Smashing Magazine
Google Analytics is often on a “need to know” basis, but why not flip the script? Paul Scanlon shares how he wrote a GitHub Action that queries Google Analytics to automatically generate and post a top ten page views report to Slack, making it incredibly easy to track page performance and share insights with your team.
Bringing insights into TCP resets and timeouts to Cloudflare Radar
New TCP resets and timeouts dataset on Cloudflare Radar surfaces connection tampering, scanning, DoS attacks, and more.
A global assessment of third-party connection tampering
Cloudflare brings visibility to the practice of connection tampering as observed from our global network.
Just our type: The story of creating Figma Sans
We’ve overhauled our entire visual identity from color palette to illustration style, and even commissioned a new typeface.
Governing data products using fitness functions
Decentralized data management requires automation to scale governance effectively. Fitness functions are a powerful automated governance technique we've applied to data products within the context of a Data Mesh. Since data products serve as the foundational building blocks (architectural quanta) of a data mesh, ensuring robust governance around them significantly increases the chances of a succes