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Security — Welcome to Security Week 2025!

Welcome to Security Week 2025!

The layer of security around today’s Internet is essential to safeguarding everything. Over the next week, we will discuss the latest trends in cyber security, announce new products and partnerships, and showcase the latest in Cloudflare technology. Welcome to Security Week 2025!

GGrantGrant·March 16, 2025Security
Engineering — Web Components Demystified

Web Components Demystified

Scott Jehl released a course called Web Components Demystified. This is my full set of notes from Scott's course. You'll still want to take the course on your own, and I encourage you to because Scott is an excellent teacher who makes all of this stuff extremely accessible, even to noobs like me.

GGGeoff GrahamGeoff Graham·March 14, 2025Engineering
Engineering — Highlights from Git 2.49

Highlights from Git 2.49

The open source Git project just released Git 2.49. Here is GitHub’s look at some of the most interesting features and changes introduced since last time.

TBTaylor BlauTaylor Blau·March 14, 2025Engineering
Languages — Jeanne DeWitt Grosser joins Vercel as COO

Jeanne DeWitt Grosser joins Vercel as COO

Vercel welcomes Jeanne DeWitt Grosser as Chief Operating Officer. Jeanne helped take Stripe from $100M to billions, pioneered usage-based go-to-market strategies, and scaled influential developer platforms. Now, she brings that momentum to Vercel.

VVercel·March 13, 2025Languages
Design & UX — How To Build Confidence In Your UX Work — Smashing Magazine

How To Build Confidence In Your UX Work — Smashing Magazine

UX initiatives are often seen as a disruption rather than a means to solving existing problems in an organization. In this post, we’ll explore how you can build trust for your UX work, gain support, and make a noticeable impact. Part of [Measure UX and Design Impact](https://measure-ux.com/) by yours truly.

VFVitaly FriedmanVitaly Friedman·March 11, 2025Design & UX
Design & UX — Smashing Meets Accessibility

Smashing Meets Accessibility

The videos from Smashing Magazine's recent event on accessibility were just posted the other day. I was invited to host the panel discussion with the speakers, including a couple of personal heroes of mine, Stéphanie Walter and Sarah Fossheim. But I was just as stoked to meet Kardo Ayoub who shared his deeply personal story as a designer with a major visual impairment.

GGGeoff GrahamGeoff Graham·March 10, 2025Design & UX
Frontend — A CSS-Only Star Rating Component and More! (Part 2)

A CSS-Only Star Rating Component and More! (Part 2)

In this second article of a two-part series, Temani Afif demonstrates an alternative approach to creating the star rating component from the first article using experimental scroll-driven animations rather than using the border-image property.

TATemani AfifTemani Afif·March 7, 2025Frontend
AI & ML — How we built enterprise search to be secure and private

How we built enterprise search to be secure and private

Many don’t know that “Slack” is in fact a backronym—it stands for “Searchable Log of all Communication and Knowledge”. And these days, it’s not just a searchable log: with Slack AI, Slack is now an intelligent log, leveraging the latest in generative AI to securely surface powerful, time-saving insights. We built Slack AI from the…

IHIan HoffmanIan Hoffman·March 7, 2025AI & ML
Engineering — Let's Talk About The American Dream

Let's Talk About The American Dream

A few months ago I wrote about what it means to stay gold — to hold on to the best parts of ourselves, our communities, and the American Dream itself. But staying gold isn’t passive. It takes work. It takes action. It takes hard conversations that ask us to confront where we’ve been, where we are, and who we want to be. That’s why I’m incredibly honored to be joining Alexander Vindman in giving a

JAJeff AtwoodJeff Atwood·March 6, 2025Engineering
Engineering — PGDay Austria Returns

PGDay Austria Returns

We are delighted to announce that PGDay Austria will be returning to Vienna in 2025. Find all updates on the event here.

CBCornelia Biacsics·March 6, 2025Engineering
Performance — How To Fix Largest Contentful Paint Issues With Subpart Analysis — Smashing Magazine

How To Fix Largest Contentful Paint Issues With Subpart Analysis — Smashing Magazine

Struggling with slow Largest Contentful Paint (LCP)? Newly introduced by Google, LCP subparts help you pinpoint where page load delays come from. Now, in the Chrome UX Report, this data provides real visitor insights to speed up your site and boost rankings. Matt Zeunert unpacks what LCP subparts are, what they mean for your website speed, and how you can measure them.

MZMatt ZeunertMatt Zeunert·March 6, 2025Performance
AI & ML — Finding leaked passwords with AI: How we built Copilot secret scanning

Finding leaked passwords with AI: How we built Copilot secret scanning

Passwords are notoriously difficult to detect with conventional programming approaches. AI can help us find passwords better because it understands context. This blog post will explore the technical challenges we faced with building the feature and the novel and creative ways we solved them.

AMAshwin Mohan, Courtney ClaessensAshwin Mohan, Courtney Claessens·March 4, 2025AI & ML
AI & ML — Building multimodal AI for Ray-Ban Meta glasses

Building multimodal AI for Ray-Ban Meta glasses

Multimodal AI – models capable of processing multiple different types of inputs like speech, text, and images – have been transforming user experiences in the wearables space. With our Ray-Ban Meta glasses, multimodal AI helps the glasses see what the wearer is seeing. This means anyone wearing Ray-Ban Meta glasses can ask them questions about […]

CWChris Wiltz·March 4, 2025AI & ML
SRE & Ops — A case for QLC SSDs in the data center

A case for QLC SSDs in the data center

The growth of data and need for increased power efficiency are leading to innovative storage solutions. HDDs have been growing in density, but not performance, and TLC flash remains at a price point that is restrictive for scaling. QLC technology addresses these challenges by forming a middle tier between HDDs and TLC SSDs. QLC […]

CWChris Wiltz·March 4, 2025SRE & Ops
Performance — How Fluid compute works on Vercel

How Fluid compute works on Vercel

See how Fluid combines server efficiency and serverless flexibility by reusing compute before creating new resources, reducing cold starts, and running in unconstrained environments while staying secure and fast. Cut compute costs by up to 85%.

VVercel·March 3, 2025Performance
Systems — An Insider’s Tips for Taking the Certified Backstage Associate (CBA) Exam

An Insider’s Tips for Taking the Certified Backstage Associate (CBA) Exam

TL;DR There’s a brand new engineering certification in town: Certified Backstage Associate (CBA). Offered through The Linux Foundation, the certification shows that you have the skills and knowledge to build and manage Backstage — the open framework for internal developer portals (IDPs) that was developed at Spotify and is now used at thousands of companies around the world. If you’re interested i

AWAndré Wanlin·March 1, 2025Systems
Engineering — Sunshine And March Vibes (2025 Wallpapers Edition) — Smashing Magazine

Sunshine And March Vibes (2025 Wallpapers Edition) — Smashing Magazine

Do you need a little inspiration boost? Well, then our new batch of desktop wallpapers is for you. Designed by the community for the community, the wallpapers in this collection are the perfect opportunity to get your desktop ready for spring — and, who knows, maybe they’ll spark some new ideas, too. Enjoy!

CMCosima MielkeCosima Mielke·February 28, 2025Engineering
Networking — Some TXT about, and A PTR to, new DNS insights on Cloudflare Radar

Some TXT about, and A PTR to, new DNS insights on Cloudflare Radar

The new Cloudflare Radar DNS page provides increased visibility into aggregate traffic and usage trends seen by our 1.1.1.1 resolver. In addition to global, location, and ASN traffic trends, we are also providing perspectives on protocol usage, query/response characteristics, and DNSSEC usage.

DBDavid Belson, Carlos RodriguesDavid Belson, Carlos Rodrigues·February 27, 2025Networking
Databases — Train the Trainer

Train the Trainer

PostgreSQL courses are an integral part of all our endeavors. Benefit from our long training experience and become a certified trainer.

CPCYBERTEC PostgreSQL·February 26, 2025Databases
AI & ML — Emerging Patterns in Building GenAI Products

Emerging Patterns in Building GenAI Products

As we move software products using generative AI technology from proof-of-concepts into production systems, we are uncovering a range of common patterns. Evals play a central role in ensuring that these non-deterministic systems are operating within sensible boundaries. Large Language Models need enhancement to provide information beyond a generic and static training set. Most of the time we can d

BSBharani Subramaniam and Martin Fowler·February 25, 2025AI & ML
Frontend — How Meta is translating its Java codebase to Kotlin

How Meta is translating its Java codebase to Kotlin

Meta has been working to shift its Android codebase from Java to Kotlin, a newer language for Android development that offers some key advantages over Java. We’ve even open sourced various examples and utilities we used to in our migration to manipulate Kotlin code. So how do you translate roughly tens of millions of lines of Java […]

CWChris Wiltz·February 25, 2025Frontend
Engineering — A Million Little Secrets

A Million Little Secrets

I spent the past few weeks packing as many easter eggs as I could into my latest project, and in this blog post, I want to dig into some of the more interesting details! If you’re interested in animations/interactions, you’ll want to check this one out; I share a bunch of my favourite secrets and tricks. 😄

JWJosh W. Comeau·February 24, 2025Engineering
AI & ML — How to debug code with GitHub Copilot

How to debug code with GitHub Copilot

GitHub Copilot can streamline your debugging process by troubleshooting in your IDE, analyzing pull requests, and more, helping you tackle issues faster and more robustly.

JRJeimy RuizJeimy Ruiz·February 21, 2025AI & ML