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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…

At Stripe, we’ve always been intentional about how we communicate, share information, and stay connected. Back when Stripe was smaller, it was easy for this to happen automatically. But by the time we hit around 150 people, it became hard to know everyone’s name. So at a company hackathon, a few Stripes created People, a directory to help Stripes meet and get to really know each other. People focused on connecting individuals across the company: Stripes could set their own bios, create networks around common interests, and generally experiment with new ways to express who they are. People ...

On Tuesday, 13 March 2018, travis-ci.com was non-operational for around 5.5 hours starting at 12:14 UTC. There was a backlog of builds for another 3.5 hours after the system returned to an operatio...

async/await freed us from callback hell, but people have started abusing it — leading to the birth of async/await hell.

By Priya Wadhwa, Software Engineer Building images from a standard Dockerfile typically relies upon interactive access to a Docker daemon,...