Collaboration isn’t democracy
I had a long-term client a few years ago who took our approach to cross-functional collaboration quite seriously. They reconfigured the make-up of their teams and worked hard to create a culture that welcomed opinions from everyone. It seemed to work well in getting ideas surfaced and debated. It failed…
Read MorePodcast: Product Mastery in Corporate Software: Insights from Kent McDonald
This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences. In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Kent McDonald about his experience working with organizations that build software for internal use, emphasizing the importance of product management in these…
Read MoreFood for Agile Thought #462: Enabling Agility in Large Organizations, Product Team Topologies, Feature Parity, Anatomy of Self-Management
TL; DR: Enabling Agility — Food for Agile Thought #462 Welcome to the 462nd edition of the Food for Agile Thought newsletter, shared with 42,839 peers. This week, Nick van der Meulen explores how enabling agility in large organizations works by empowering teams through four decision rights guardrails. Itamar Gilad…
Read More🧠 Community Wisdom: Favorite tools for monitoring in-app activity, dealing with fake accounts, the difference between product management and product ops, being moved into a different role, and more
👋 Hello and welcome to this week’s edition of ✨ Community Wisdom ✨ a subscriber-only email, delivered every Saturday, highlighting the most helpful conversations in our members-only Slack community. Read more Read More
Read MoreOur container platform is in production. It has GPUs. Here’s an early look
We’ve been working on something new — a platform for running containers across Cloudflare’s network. We already use it in production for Workers AI, Workers Builds, Remote Browsing Isolation, and the Browser Rendering API. Today, we want to share an early look at how it’s built, why we built it, and…
Read MoreAI Everywhere with the WAF Rule Builder Assistant, Cloudflare Radar AI Insights, and updated AI bot protection
The continued growth of AI has fundamentally changed the Internet over the past 24 months. AI is increasingly ubiquitous, and Cloudflare is leaning into the new opportunities and challenges it presents in a big way. This year for Cloudflare’s birthday, we’ve extended our AI Assistant capabilities to help you build…
Read MoreEmpowering builders: introducing the Dev Alliance and Workers Launchpad Cohort #4
Today we’re announcing the Dev Starter Pack, an alliance of innovative tools for developers to get started with discounts and free services. We’re also excited to share an update on our Workers Launchpad Program. Creating from the ground up often means spending countless hours piecing together the right development stack,…
Read MoreAdvancing cybersecurity: Cloudflare implements a new bug bounty VIP program as part of CISA Pledge commitment
As our digital world becomes increasingly more complex, the importance of cybersecurity grows ever more critical. As a result, Cloudflare is proud to promote our commitment to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) ‘Secure by Design’ pledge. The commitment is built around seven security goals, aimed at enhancing the…
Read MoreProject management à la SRE: How to juggle the needs of your project and production
You’ve probably felt the frustration that arises when a project fails to meet established deadlines. And perhaps you’ve also encountered scenarios where project staff or computing have been reallocated to higher priority projects. It can be super challenging to get projects done on time with this kind of uncertainty. That’s…
Read MoreZero-latency SQLite storage in every Durable Object
Traditional cloud storage is inherently slow, because it is normally accessed over a network and must carefully synchronize across many clients that could be accessing the same data. But what if we could instead put your application code deep into the storage layer, such that your code runs directly on…
Read MoreBoost your CLI skills with GitHub Copilot
Working with the command line is something many developers love. Even though we love it, there are times when it can be really frustrating. What’s the command for switching to a branch? How do I fix merge conflicts? Do I have the correct credentials or permissions for my file or…
Read MoreKicking off Cybersecurity Awareness Month: Researcher spotlights and additional incentives!
Cybersecurity Awareness Month is a global initiative that highlights the importance of protecting our digital work. At GitHub, security is the core of how we operate. We’re proud to participate and demonstrate our commitment to safeguarding our customer’s data. As such, GitHub’s Bug Bounty team is excited to celebrate the…
Read MoreGitHub Copilot now available in github.com for Copilot Individual and Copilot Business plans
Today, GitHub Copilot Individual and Business plans now include preview access to Copilot functionality, including GitHub Copilot Chat, in github.com. The integration with GitHub allows Copilot to leverage the rich context from repositories, pull requests, issues, actions, and more, providing you with more valuable interactions, more tailored coding assistance, and…
Read MoreBuilder Day 2024: 18 big updates to the Workers platform
To celebrate Builder Day 2024, we’re shipping 18 updates inspired by direct feedback from developers building on Cloudflare. Choosing a platform isn’t just about current technologies and services — it’s about betting on a partner that will evolve with your needs as your project grows and the tech landscape shifts.…
Read MoreLessons in product leadership and AI strategy from Glean, Google, Amazon, and Slack | Tamar Yehoshua (Product at Glean, ex-Google and Slack)
Listen now on Apple, Spotify, and YouTube. Brought to you by: • Explo—Embed customer-facing analytics in your product• Sprig—Build products for people, not data points• Sidebar—Accelerate your career by surrounding yourself with extraordinary peers — Tamar Yehoshua is the president of product and technology at Glean. Prior to joining Glean, Tamar was chief product…
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