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The single most important quality in a piece of software is simplicity. It’s more important than doing the task you set out to achieve. It’s more important than performance. The reason is straightforward: if your solution is not simple, it will not be correct or fast.

Trends in the developer community move quickly. As a developer-focused company, it's vital for us to keep up with the technologies and tools that developers and their teams are interested in so we can help them achieve their goals.

There are fundamental differences between OAuth 2.0 and OAuth 1.0a that Mastercard considers crucial for security OAuth 2.0 is designed for authorization only and could leave us vulnerable to account takeover / impersonation attacks OAuth 1.0a includes authentication and authorization, which our Mastercard Developers APIs need to process critically sensitive data

Before it became a covert surveillance tool disguised as an outstanding browser extension, Stylish really was an outstanding browser extension. It bestowed upon its users nothing less than the power to change the appearance of the internet. Its extensive bank of user-made skins gave bright websites a dark background, undid disliked UI changes, and added manga pictures to everything that wasn’t a manga picture already. I spent many wonderful hours in its simple CSS editor, hiding the distracting parts of the web whilst unknowingly being spied on. Facebook news feed...

Standardisation to Scale

Slack bills itself as “where work happens”. So what happened when it was closed for business? We analyzed productivity data from 12k users to find out.

MongoDB 4.0 will add support for multi-document transactions, making it the only database to combine the speed, flexibility, and power of the document model with ACID guarantees. Through snapshot isolation, transactions will provide a globally consistent view of data, and enforce all-or-nothing execution to maintain data integrity.

GitLab.com is migrating to Google Cloud Platform – here’s what this means for you now and in the future.

In 2016, we took a big bet on React Native. Two years later, we’re ready to share our experience with the world and show what’s next.

A game for learning CSS flexbox

Last week there was a fairly momentous occurance in the JavaScript framework world: Vue.js passed React.js in the number of people who have 'starred' it on Github.

At interviewing.io, we’ve analyzed and written at some depth about what makes for a good interview from the perspective of an interviewee. However, despite the inherent power imbalance, interviewing is a two-way street. I wrote a while ago about how, in this market, recruiting isn’t about vetting as

Software development engineer Cees De Groot shares how he brought Elixir to PagerDuty—and how it compares to other languages, including Ruby/Rails, Scala, and Erlang.

The Docker team has pulled 17 Docker container images that have been backdoored and used to install reverse shells and cryptocurrency miners on users' servers for the past year.

A methodology for building modern, scalable, maintainable software-as-a-service apps.

How I used benchmarking, profiling, and tracing to heavily optimize a program

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This post is contributed by Xavier Shay, who teaches our Engineering Leadership course. He was most recently Director of Payment…

Cloudflare is protected from attacks by the Gatebot DDoS mitigation pipeline. Gatebot performs hundreds of mitigations a day, shielding our infrastructure and our customers from L3 and L7 attacks.

Growing companies is just as important as starting companies. Making a really successful startup requires two very different skills: Product… Read On

Onboarding new and junior developers to the team is hard. You want them to become good, but that requires instruction, and instruction takes time. How do we ...

The gelatin-scaffold ovary could one day help restore endocrine function in young cancer patients and treat infertility

Last week marked the fifth anniversary since the Ghost Kickstarter campaign which started it all. It's always fun to use these milestones to take a step back and reflect on the journey so far. On previous birthdays I've talked about revenue milestones and product updates, but this year I'm going

Data classes are one of the new features of Python 3.7. With data classes you do not have to write boilerplate code to get proper initialization, representation and comparisons for your objects.

If you’re into mobile app development, the name of React Native mustn’t be new for you. The term has been trending in the world of…