Beyond iOS 15: How WWDC sets up the next generation of killer apps - Macworld

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If there is one thing that Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference is fundamentally about, it’s tools. This is the company’s opportunity to lay the groundwork for the big OS releases that will debut this fall, yes, but we’re also talking about Apple here. And Apple is a company that looks at the long-term—it’s the kind of attitude you can afford to have when you have billions of dollars and are into your fifth decade.

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Cloudflare’s Uptime and Scale

Link ⇢ 本文讨论了 Cloudflare(一家提供互联网基础设施服务的公司)对于像 Daring Fireball (DF) 这样的网站的重要性。尽管 Cloudflare 曾发生一次中断,导致 DF 无法访问约 90 分钟,但作者 John Gruber 并不打算停止使用他们的服务。他解释说,在 2018 年使用 Cloudflare 之前,Daring Fireball 管理着自己的服务器,设置很简单。然而,转向 HTTPS(超文本传输安全协议,一种更安全的网络协议版本)增加了复杂性。Gruber 最初使用 Cloudflare 是为了解决导致速度变慢的 SSL(安全套接字层,一种安全技术)问题,也为了 DNS(域名系统,将网站名称转换为 IP