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Ship Shape

2023327 points81 comments Software Engineering details

How Canva does hand-drawn shape recognition in the browser

Fonts are still a Helvetica of a Problem

2024206 points126 comments Web & Frontend details

CVEs in three strange places and the unique problem of safely processing and handling fonts.

When URL parsers disagree

2023156 points56 comments Security & Privacy details

Discovery and walkthrough of CVE-2023-38633 in librsvg, when two URL parser implementations (Rust and Glib) disagree on file scheme parsing leading to path traversal.

How Canva saves Amazon S3 costs

2023134 points177 comments Infrastructure & DevOps details

Understanding our data and usage patterns was the real key.

We put half a million files in one Git repository (2022)

2023134 points170 comments Software Engineering details

Using a monorepo causes a lot of performance challenges for git. Here's how we solve them at Canva.