1,148 articles published in 2024.
Cloudflare Radar is constantly monitoring the Internet for widespread disruptions. Here we examine several recent noteworthy disruptions detected in the first month of Q3, including traffic anomalies observed in Bangladesh, Syria, Pakistan, and Venezuela.
We are enabling the rise of the AI engineer with GitHub Models–bringing the power of industry leading large and small language models to our more than 100 million users directly on GitHub.
Handling translations for multilingual websites is famously difficult and, yet, crucial for many companies and organizations that serve a global audience. Thankfully, modern tooling abstracts away a great deal of the work, allowing for seamless translations that dynamically update the rendered content on a page, as demonstrated in this step-by-step tutorial.
We have a lot of dashboards at Spotify. Our Insight teams and analysts from across the company are constantly whipping up new dashboards for stakeholders and themselves, helping answer those big data-driven questions every day. These dashboards tackle everything from frequently used key metrics to exploratory insights and operational reports. It’s clear to us: dashboards help us move faster and st
Most days, I'm writing vanilla CSS. Thanks to CSS variables and nesting, I have fewer reasons to reach for Sass or any other preprocessor. The times I reach
To enhance your coding experience, AI tools should excel at saving you time with repetitive, administrative tasks, while providing accurate solutions to assist developers. Today, we’re spotlighting three updates designed to increase efficiency and boost developer creativity.
All software is built atop a core set of assumptions. As new code is added and new use-cases emerge, software can become unmoored from those assumptions. When this happens, a fundamental tension arises between revisiting those foundational assumptions—which usually entails a lot of work—or trying to support new behavior atop the existing architecture. The latter…
Do you need a little inspiration boost? Well, then our new batch of desktop wallpapers might be for you. Designed by the community for the community, they come in versions with and without a calendar for August 2024. Enjoy!
Over the years, Google's treatment of JavaScript has changed, leaving us with misconceptions of how it's indexed. Here, we debunk the myths.
This blog post explores the impact of the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics on Internet traffic in France and beyond, concentrating on web activity during the opening ceremony and the initial days of competition. Let the games continue.
Understand why and how to disable memory overcommit to make PostgreSQL run reliably on Linux, including implications for containerization.
HP’s design system team reveals how they used Figma to streamline processes, break down silos, and save developers 98 minutes per week across their diverse product ecosystem.
Learn how we’re experimenting with open source AI models to systematically incorporate customer feedback to supercharge our product roadmaps.
Introducing the generally available capability of GitHub Artifact Attestations to secure your cloud-native supply chain packages and images.
Outages caused by certificate pinning is increasing. Learn why certificate pinning hasn’t kept up with modern standards and find alternatives to improve security while reducing management overhead
Git 2.46 is here with new features like pseudo-merge bitmaps, more capable credential helpers, and a new git config command. Check out our coverage on some of the highlights here.
Teams with neurodivergent employees can be up to 30 percent more productive. Discover tips on how best to support them in your workplace.
Take the next step in our GitHub for Beginners series and add code to your repository. Learn how to create branches and upload changes into a pull request.
Getting real with virtual threads
Many UX professionals often find themselves working alone, and usually face more projects impacting user experience than they can handle. In this article, Paul Boag explains how UX teams can be transformed into a significant driver of customer-centric innovation within organizations.
The Flags SDK is a free open-source library that gives developers the tools they need to use feature flags in Next.js and SvelteKit applications.
In this post, we discuss performance optimizations we've implemented for our WAF ML product. We'll guide you through code examples, benchmarks, and we'll share the impressive latency reduction numbers
Meet each maintainer, watch their project demos, and discover the unique story of each open source AI project.
Joas Pambou built an app that integrates vision language models (VLMs) and text-to-speech (TTS) AI technologies to describe images audibly with speech. This audio description tool can be a big help for people with sight challenges to understand what’s in an image. But how this does it even work? Joas explains how these AI systems work and their potential uses, including how he built the app and wa
Cloudflare is excited to be a launch partner with Meta to introduce Workers AI support for Llama 3.1
In this blog we are talking about indexes. Speeding up index creation in PostgreSQL is one of the main topic.
Solving and staying ahead of problems when scaling up a system of GitHub’s size is a delicate process. Here’s a look at some of the tools in GitHub’s toolbox, and how we’ve used them to solve problems.
GitHub Staff Engineer Sarah Vessels discusses her philosophy of code review, what separates good code review from bad, her strategy for finding and reviewing code, and how to get the most from reviews of her own code.
Demystify Next.js rendering strategies: SSG, SSR, CSR, ISR, and PPR. Optimize your web apps for performance, SEO, and user experience. Learn when and how to use each approach with real-world examples and practical tips for modern web development.
An update on our progress with Turbopack, details on where we’re headed, and a planned move of Turbopack to the Next.js repository.
As the Paris 2024 Olympics approach, our analysis reveals France, the host nation, leads in DNS traffic to official Olympic sites, followed by the UK, the US, and Australia
These sorts of roundups always get me. My wife will flip through Zillow photos of the insides of homes for hours because she likes seeing how different people
In this blog post, we’ll explain how we discovered three critical vulnerabilities in Kafka UI and how they can be exploited.
This week, the Republican National Convention was hosted in Milwaukee, Wisconsin from July 15 to 18, 2024. We examined traffic shifts and cyberattacks since June 2024 to see how these events have
WCAG provides guidance for making interactive elements more accessible by specifying minimum size requirements. In this article, Eric Bailey discusses the nuances of interactive element sizes and clarifies what it looks like to provide accessible interactive experiences using WCAG-compliant target sizes.
What happens when a team of mechanical engineers get tired of looking at flat images of 3D models over Zoom? Meet the team behind Caddy, a new CAD app for mixed reality. They join Pascal Hartig (@passy) on the Meta Tech Podcast to talk about teaching themselves to code, disrupting the CAD software space, how […]
In today’s turbulent landscape of design, Penpot stands out with its commitment to open-source, free unlimited access, and its unique, robust features. An example could be its new components system that takes another leap forward in aligning design with code. Let
After learning about an issue with Make Designs, part of Figma AI, we temporarily disabled the feature. Here’s our retrospective.
An interview with economic researchers who are applying causal inference techniques to analyze the effect of generative AI tools on software development activity.
Cloudflare is adding support for end-to-end private traffic flows to our local traffic management (LTM) load balancing solution, and allowing for the replacement of hardware load balancers
Government directed shutdowns and cable cuts were both significant sources of Internet outages in Q2 2024. This post explores these disruptions, as well as others caused by power outages, maintenance,
This article shows how to use keyset pagination if you want to sort some columns in ascending and others in descending order.
The key to developer velocity across AI lies in minimizing time to first batch (TTFB) for machine learning (ML) engineers. AI Lab is a pre-production framework used internally at Meta. It allows us to continuously A/B test common ML workflows – enabling proactive improvements and automatically preventing regressions on TTFB. AI Lab prevents TTFB regressions […]
This in-depth guide takes you through the three crucial phases of conversational search, revealing how users express their needs, explore results, and refine their queries. Learn how AI agents can overcome communication barriers, personalize the search experience, and adapt to evolving user intent.
In June, we experienced two incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.
Here we examine how UEFA Euro 2024 football matches have influenced Internet traffic patterns in participating countries, with a special focus on the two finalists, Spain and England, on their journey
Cloudflare’s updated 2024 view on Internet cyber security trends spanning global traffic insights, bot traffic insights, API traffic insights, and client-side risks
Figma’s Brand Studio on how they designed an immersive, dynamic conference experience—all in one Figma file.
Outcomes from the Partnership on AI and GitHub workshop.
We are thrilled to announce Cloudflare Zaraz support for server-side rendering of embeds from X and Instagram. This allows for secure, privacy-preserving, and performant embedding without third-party JavaScript or cookies, enhancing security, privacy, and performance on your website
Tail utilization is a significant system issue and a major factor in overload-related failures and low compute utilization. The tail utilization optimizations at Meta have had a profound impact on model serving capacity footprint and reliability. Failure rates, which are mostly timeout errors, were reduced by two-thirds; the compute footprint delivered 35% more work for […]
Meta’s advertising business leverages large-scale machine learning (ML) recommendation models that power millions of ads recommendations per second across Meta’s family of apps. Maintaining reliability of these ML systems helps ensure the highest level of service and uninterrupted benefit delivery to our users and advertisers. To minimize disruptions and ensure our ML systems are intrinsically
Today, UX design contributes to the problem of excessive consumption through persuasive e-commerce practices and designing for companies with linear and exploitative business models. Anna Rátkai explores practical steps we can take to reduce material consumption and the massive environmental impact that comes along with it by designing mindful shopping experiences.
Welcome to the 18th edition of the Cloudflare DDoS Threat Report. Released quarterly, these reports provide an in-depth analysis of the DDoS threat landscape as observed across the Cloudflare network. This edition focuses on the second quarter of 2024
