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The ‘Backends for Frontends’ Pattern at SoundCloud
Our friends at SoundCloud embarked on a journey a few years ago that changed their system and moved it from a monolithic Rails application towards an ecosystem of microservices.
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XKeyscore Exposé Reaffirms the Need to Rid the Web of Tracking Cookies
Last Wednesday, The Intercept published an expose on the NSA's XKeyscore program. Along with information on the breadth and scale of the NSA's metadata collection, The Intercept revealed how the NSA relies on unencrypted cookie data to identify users. As The Intercept says: "The NSA’s ability to...
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Improving Facebook's Performance on Android with FlatBuffers
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Firebug and DevTools Integration
You might have already heard about our effort to unify native Firefox Developer tools (DevTools) and Firebug. We’ve been working hard to port all favorite Firebug features into native DevTools, ...
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Webmaker for Android
Mozilla is excited to announce that Webmaker for Android emerges from beta today. You can download the new version of our free, open source app from Google
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ES6 in Depth: Destructuring
ES6 In Depth is a series on new features being added to the JavaScript programming language in the 6th Edition of the ECMAScript standard, ES6 for short. Editor’s note: An ...
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Cookies Lack Integrity: Real-World Implications
Xiaofeng Zheng, Tsinghua University and Tsinghua National Laboratory for Information Science and Technology; Jian Jiang, University of California, Berkeley; Jinjin Liang, Tsinghua University and Tsinghua National Laboratory for Information Science and Technology; Haixin Duan, Tsinghua University, Tsinghua National…
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Web Fonts Collateral Damage of Ad Blockers
Years of abusive implementation of webfonts has landed the feature under the umbrella of content blocking APIs, affecting those few who’ve cared all along.
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Limitations of the GET method in HTTP
Dash knows your context, your team, and your work, so your team can stay organized, easily find and share knowledge, and keep projects secure, all from one place.
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Octopress 3.0 is coming
The way Octopress is being distributed and maintained is nearing its end. There are many things I've always disliked about how Octopress works. So before I talk about the exciting part, I'd like to tell you what's wrong with Octopress.
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Firefox OS for TV: UX Overview
Introduction The user experience of Firefox OS on the television platform comes from Mozilla's vision of the Connected Home. This departure from our smart phone interface focuses on ease of ...
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ES6 in Depth – Symbols
ES6 In Depth is a series on new features being added to the JavaScript programming language in the 6th Edition of the ECMAScript standard, ES6 for short. Note: There is ...
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Welcoming Timeful to Google
Posted by Alex Gawley, Director of Product Management With the proliferation of mobile phones and greater access to technology, it should...
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The Dribbblisation of Design
Only one of these weather apps is attempting to solve the real problem.
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Ember.js 1.13.0 and 2.0 Beta Released
We are pleased to announce the release of both Ember.js 1.13.0 and the first beta in the 2.0 series. This comes as the thirteenth cycle of our release process...
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An introduction to JavaScript-based DDoS
CloudFlare protects millions of websites from online threats. One of the oldest and most pervasive attacks launched against websites is the Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack.
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Windows 10: The Next Chapter [video]
Everything you need to know about Windows 10.
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VP9 encoding/decoding performance vs. HEVC/H.264
A while ago, I posted about ffvp9, FFmpeg's native decoder for the VP9 video codec, which significantly outperforms Google's decoder (part of libvpx). We also talked about encoding performance (quality, mainly), and showed VP9 significantly outperformed H.264, although it was much slower. The elephant-in-the-room…
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Getting Superfish Out of Firefox
First things first: If you are reading this post on a recent Lenovo laptop, please click the lock icon in the URL bar, then click “More Information…”. If you see ...