How to Fix Any Bug
The joys of vibecoding.
Update regarding Vercel service disruption on October 20, 2025
Update regarding Vercel service disruption on October 20, 2025. Read the summary of impact, timeline, root cause, and steps we’re taking to improve reliability.
Inside the breach that broke the internet: The untold story of Log4Shell
Log4Shell proved that open source security isn’t guaranteed and isn’t just a code problem. It’s about supporting, enabling, and empowering the people behind the projects that build our digital infrastructure.
Disaggregated Scheduled Fabric: Scaling Meta’s AI Journey
Disaggregated Schedule Fabric (DSF) is Meta’s next-generation network fabric technology for AI training networks that addresses the challenges of existing Clos-based networks. We’re sharing the challenges and innovations surrounding DSF and discussing future directions, including the creation of mega clusters through DSF and non-DSF region interconnectivity, as well as the exploration of alternati
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Load Balancing Monitor Groups: Multi-Service Health Checks for Resilient Applications
Cloudflare Load Balancing now supports Monitor Groups, allowing you to combine multiple health monitors into a single, logical assessment. Create sophisticated health checks for complex applications, define critical dependencies, and make smarter failover decisions.
Accelerate developer productivity with these 9 open source AI and MCP projects
GitHub Copilot and VS Code teams, along with the Microsoft Open Source Program Office (OSPO), sponsored these nine open source MCP projects that provide new frameworks, tools, and assistants to unlock AI-native workflows, agentic tooling, and innovation.
Scaling LLM Inference: Innovations in Tensor Parallelism, Context Parallelism, and Expert Parallelism
At Meta, we are constantly pushing the boundaries of LLM inference systems to power applications such as the Meta AI App. We’re sharing how we developed and implemented advanced parallelism techniques to optimize key performance metrics related to resource efficiency, throughput, and latency. The rapid evolution of large language models (LLMs) has ushered in a […]
AI In UX: Achieve More With Less — Smashing Magazine
A simple but powerful mental model for working with AI: treat it like an enthusiastic intern with no real-world experience. Paul Boag shares lessons learned from real client projects across user research, design, development, and content creation.
Improving the trustworthiness of Javascript on the Web
Today, there's no way to audit a site’s client-side code as it changes, making it hard to trust sites that use cryptography. We preview a specification we coauthored that adds auditability to the web.
How to navigate GitHub Universe (or any tech conference) if you’re an introvert
If alone time is your love language—don’t worry, it’s ours too—you can still attend, learn from, and enjoy big events like GitHub Universe. Here are some practical tips on how.
Branching in a Sapling Monorepo
Sapling is a scalable, user-friendly, and open-source source control system that powers Meta’s monorepo. As discussed at the GitMerge 2024 conference session on branching, designing and implementing branching workflows for large monorepos is a challenging problem with multiple tradeoffs between scalability and the developer experience. After the conference, we designed, implemented, and open sourc
10X Backbone: How Meta Is Scaling Backbone Connectivity for AI
We’re sharing details on our journey to scale Meta’s Backbone network to support the increasing demands of new and existing AI workloads. We’ve developed new technologies and designs to address our 10x scaling needs and applying some of these same principles to help extend our AI clusters between multiple data centers. Meta’s Backbone network is […]
How To Make Your UX Research Hard To Ignore — Smashing Magazine
Research isn’t everything. Facts alone don’t win arguments, but powerful stories do. Here’s how to turn your research into narratives that inspire trust and influence decisions.
Webinar: Cross-Platform Auditing
Copilot: Faster, smarter, and built for how you work now
Discover how GitHub Copilot has evolved from a high-powered autocomplete tool to a powerful, multi-model agentic assistant.
Just another (Black) Friday
Vercel customers can treat Black Friday like just another day, ready to scale to billions of requests.
Agents at work, a partnership with Salesforce and Slack
Vercel and Salesforce are partnering to help teams build, ship, and scale AI agents across the Salesforce ecosystem, starting with Slack.
Unpacking Cloudflare Workers CPU Performance Benchmarks
Cloudflare investigated CPU performance benchmark results for Workers, uncovering and fixing issues in infrastructure, V8 garbage collection, and OpenNext optimizations. These improvements have made Cloudflare Workers faster for all customers.
15+ ways we’re improving accessibility in Figma
To make Figma easier to navigate for all, we’re launching dozens of keyboard-only controls and improving the screen reader experience.
How GitHub Copilot and AI agents are saving legacy systems
GitHub Copilot and AI agents are making legacy COBOL systems accessible to modern developers.
Design for Sustainability: New Design Principles for Reducing IT Hardware Emissions
We’re presenting Design for Sustainability, a set of technical design principles for new designs of IT hardware to reduce emissions and cost through reuse, extending useful life, and optimizing design. At Meta, we’ve been able to significantly reduce the carbon footprint of our data centers by integrating several design strategies such as modularity, reuse, retrofitting, […]
How Meta Is Leveraging AI To Improve the Quality of Scope 3 Emission Estimates for IT Hardware
As we focus on our goal of achieving net zero emissions in 2030, we also aim to create a common taxonomy for the entire industry to measure carbon emissions. We’re sharing details on a new methodology we presented at the 2025 OCP regional EMEA summit that leverages AI to improve our understanding of our IT […]
Introducing stablecoin payments for subscriptions
As businesses expand globally, stablecoins can help them reach a broader international audience more cost-effectively. Now we’re extending these benefits to subscription-based businesses by launching recurring payments with stablecoins.
Masonry: Watching a CSS Feature Evolve
What can CSS Masonry discussions teach us about the development of new CSS features? What is the CSSWG’s role? What influence do browsers have? What can learn from the way past features evolved?
GitHub Copilot CLI: How to get started
Discover how to use GitHub Copilot directly in the terminal. From cloning a repository to opening a pull request, here’s how to streamline your workflow with Copilot CLI.
How to build reliable AI workflows with agentic primitives and context engineering
See how this three-part framework will turn AI into a repeatable and reliable engineering practice.
OCP Summit 2025: The Open Future of Networking Hardware for AI
At Open Compute Project Summit (OCP) 2025, we’re sharing details about the direction of next-generation network fabrics for our AI training clusters. We’ve expanded our network hardware portfolio and are contributing new disaggregated network platforms to OCP. We look forward to continued collaboration with OCP to open designs for racks, servers, storage boxes, and motherboards […]
The Grayscale Problem — Smashing Magazine
From A/B tests to AI slop, the modern web is bleeding out its colour. Standardized, templated, and overoptimized, it’s starting to feel like a digital Levittown. But it doesn’t have to be.
We Completely Missed width/height: stretch
The TL;DR is that stretch does the same thing as declaring 100%, but ignores padding when looking at the available space.
Notes on switching to Helix from vim
Introducing REACT: Why We Built an Elite Incident Response Team
We're launching Cloudforce One REACT, a team of expert security responders designed to eliminate the gap between perimeter defense and internal incident response. The team brings unmatched threat intelligence and network-native mitigation to help organizations prepare for and respond to security crises across any environment.
Exploration: CNPG PostgreSQL Upgrade
This post demonstrates how to perform both minor and major PostgreSQL upgrades in a Kubernetes environment using CNPG.
20 Years of Git, 2 days at GitHub HQ: Git Merge 2025 highlights 🎉
Git Merge 2025 celebrated 20 years of Git with talks, collaboration, and community. Catch the highlights and recordings.
How AI Agents are Evolving Shopify's Product Taxonomy at Scale (2025) - Shopify
Our prior work used Vision Language Models for automatic product classification. This post delves into how AI agents are evolving the taxonomy itself.
Server rendering benchmarks: Fluid Compute and Cloudflare Workers
Fluid Compute outperforms Cloudflare Workers by 1.2x–5x in server-side rendering benchmarks, offering faster, more consistent response times through an optimized in-region architecture.
How we found a bug in Go's arm64 compiler
84 million requests a second means even rare bugs appear often. We'll reveal how we discovered a race condition in the Go arm64 compiler and got it fixed.
The thing about contrast-color
One of our favorites, Andy Clarke, on the one thing keeping the CSS contrast-color() function from true glory:
PostgreSQL 18: A Bird Learning to Fly
This blog highlights the features of PostgreSQL version 18 which was released on 25th September, 2025. Dive in to know more.
4 ways for design teams to chart new territory with Figma Make
These ideas from Maven Clinic, Pendo, ServiceNow, and LinkedIn show how designers can prompt a path forward with Figma Make.
GitHub Availability Report: September 2025
In September, we experienced three incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.
Completing urgent fixes anywhere with GitHub Copilot coding agent and mobile
Unlock the full potential of the GitHub platform. See how Copilot coding agent and GitHub Mobile combine to help you tackle development tasks and urgent fixes, no matter where you are.
6 winning Figma Makes—and what you can learn from them
This year’s Make-a-thon winners offer insights on how to prototype smarter, structure products better, and push Figma Make further.
How GitHub Copilot enabled accessibility governance process improvements in record time
See how we turned weekly accessibility signals into an automated, accountable remediation workflow—powered by GitHub Copilot and cross‑functional collaboration.
How a top bug bounty researcher got their start in security
For this year’s Cybersecurity Awareness Month, the GitHub Bug Bounty team is excited to feature another spotlight on a talented security researcher — @xiridium!
Introducing the React Foundation: The New Home for React & React Native
Meta open-sourced React over a decade ago to help developers build better user experiences. Since then, React has grown into one of the world’s most popular open source projects, powering over 50 million websites and products built by companies such as Microsoft, Shopify, Bloomberg, Discord, Coinbase, the NFL, and many others. With React Native, React […]
Deploy Safety: Reducing customer impact from change
It’s mid 2023 and we’ve identified some opportunities to improve our reliability. Fast forward to January 2025. Customer impact hours are reduced from the peak by 90% and continuing to trend downward. We’re a year and half into the Deploy Safety Program at Slack, improving the way we deploy, uplifting our safety culture and continuing…
Introducing our agentic commerce solutions
Last week, we shared the Agentic Commerce Protocol (ACP), a new open standard that enables programmatic agentic flows. Here are some of the other steps Stripe is taking to build agentic commerce solutions for AI platforms and businesses.
Turn your ChatGPT brainstorms into FigJam diagrams
With the new Figma app in ChatGPT, you can turn conversations into FigJam diagrams like flow charts, Gantt charts, and more.
The developer role is evolving. Here’s how to stay ahead.
AI is changing how software gets built. Explore the skills you need to keep up and stand out.
Introducing OpenZL: An Open Source Format-Aware Compression Framework
OpenZL is a new open source data compression framework that offers lossless compression for structured data. OpenZL is designed to offer the performance of a format-specific compressor with the easy maintenance of a single executable binary. You can get started with OpenZL today by visiting our Quick Start guide and the OpenZL GitHub repository. Learn more […]
Smashing Animations Part 5: Building Adaptive SVGs With , , And CSS Media Queries — Smashing Magazine
SVGs, they scale, yes, but how else can you make them adapt even better to several screen sizes? Web design pioneer Andy Clarke explains how he builds what he calls “adaptive SVGs” using ``, ``, and CSS Media Queries.
Introducing the Candle Subsea Cable, Updates to Our Asia-Pacific Connectivity Projects
We’re introducing Candle, a new submarine cable connecting countries across East Asia and Southeast Asia. We’re also announcing several updates to our subsea cables across the Asia-Pacific, including the completion of the Bifrost cable system. The Asia-Pacific (APAC) region is home to over 58% of the world’s internet users1 – many who rely on robust […]
Bringing etcd to the database with Rust and pgrx
This blog is about using Rust and pgrx to use functionalities of etcd in your database, a very detailed blog with steps for everyone. Dive in.
Intent Prototyping: A Practical Guide To Building With Clarity (Part 2) — Smashing Magazine
Ready to move beyond static mockups? Here is a practical, step-by-step guide to Intent Prototyping — a disciplined method that uses AI to turn your design intent (UI sketches, conceptual models, and user flows) directly into a live prototype, making it your primary canvas for ideation.
Building Dash: How RAG and AI agents help us meet the needs of businesses
To meet the challenges of modern work in data-intensive environments, we ultimately turned to retrieval-augmented generation and AI agents.
A practical blueprint for evaluating conversational AI at scale
Building Dropbox Dash taught us that in the foundation-model era, AI evaluations matter just as much as model training.
How we use Lakera Guard to secure our LLMs
With its robust capabilities, Lakera Guard helps us secure and protect user data, and uphold the reliability and trustworthiness of our intelligent features.
Making file encryption fast and secure for teams with advanced key management
We developed features to help teams limit their security risks and respond more effectively to potential threats or breaches.
Evolving our infrastructure through the messaging system model in Dropbox
The MSM helped us build a unified event-driven system capable of orchestrating a wide range of asynchronous tasks and meeting future needs, especially as we focus on AI.