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An Easier Way to Share Progress on Your Website

Do you build sites for others? Have you ever struggled to coordinate and manage access to in-progress projects? How often do you have to help clients reset their passwords? We feel your pain, and we’re excited to announce Site Preview Links, a feature that will let you easily share a “Coming Soon” Business or eCommerce site.

Use Site Preview Links to Share Your Work

With Site Preview Links, you can generate a unique preview link for your in-progress Business or eCommerce site, allowing your team or clients to access the Coming Soon site without having to log in. This way, you can easily show off your work-in-progress and get feedback from your stakeholders without having to resend invites, update user roles, or reset passwords.

You can create and access the preview link directly from the Sites page:

You can then share the link with your team or client. When they access the preview link, they’ll bypass the Coming Soon screen and be able to view your site.

Site Preview Links is an easy-to-use feature that will save you time and hassle. It’s perfect for anyone who builds websites for others, whether you are an agency with a growing client roster, a contractor with just a handful of projects, or simply someone who knows a lot of people who need websites.

How Site Preview Links Work

WordPress.com uses a secure HMAC hashing algorithm to generate Preview Link that is unique across all sites. The possible number of unique hashes is 2256, which heavily exceeds the number of grains of sand in the world!

Users who access your site using the shared preview link can continue navigating through the site, as WordPress.com uses a browser cookie to preserve the link value for the user’s session.

The link won’t expire, but you can disable it anytime. Users who already have access to your site using the preview link won’t be able to access the site anymore once you disable the link.

If you change your mind, you can always enable the link again, and we will generate a new, unique, ready-to-share URL.

If you need help with Preview Links, check out our more detailed guide.

Check out Preview Links for yourself

Build Your Next Site on WordPress.com

Try Preview Links today and see how it can help you save time and make your life easier. Your clients will be impressed with the convenience, and you’ll be able to get their feedback faster.

Preview Links are just one of the reasons WordPress.com is the best managed WordPress hosting on the planet alongside other features we released this year: the Sites page, SSH access, SSH keys, and our data center picker. If you are interested in more details, you can follow our Developer Blog.

What other feature would you find valuable? How could we make WordPress.com an even more powerful place to build a website? Feel free to leave a comment or submit your ideas in our short feature request form.
Quelle: RedHat Stack

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Optimize and scale your startup – A look into the Build Series

At Google Cloud, we want to provide you with the access to all the tools you need to grow your business. Through the Google Cloud Technical Guides for Startups, leverage industry leading solutions with how-to video guides andresourcescurated for startups. This multi-series contains 3 chapters: Start, Build and Grow, which matches your startup’s  journey:The Start Series: Begin by building, deploying and managing new applications on Google Cloud from start to finish.The Build Series: Optimize and scale existing deployments to reach your target audiences.The Grow Series: Grow and attain scale with deployments on Google Cloud.Additionally, at Google we have the Google for Startups Cloud Program, which is designed to help your business get off the ground and enable a sustainable growth plan for the future. The start of the Build Series delineates the benefits of the program, the application process, and more to help your business get started on Google Cloud.A quick recap of the Build SeriesOnce you have applied for the Google for Startups Cloud Program, there’s so much to explore and try out on Google Cloud. Figuring out a rapid but solid application development process can be key to many businesses in reducing time to market. Furthermore, learning what database to use to handle application data can be tricky. Deep dive into our Firestorevideo which walks through how Firestore can help you unlock application innovation with simplicity and speed.We then move on to a deep dive intoBigQuery and how it can help businesses. BigQuery is designed to support analysis over petabytes of data regardless of whether it’s structured or unstructured. This video is the goto video for getting started on BigQuery!If you are someone looking to run your Spark and Hadoop jobs faster and on the cloud, look to Dataproc. To learn more about Dataproc and how this has helped other customers with their Hadoop clusters, click the video below to learn all things Dataproc related.Next, we find out what Dataflow can bring to your business; some advantages, sample architectures, demos on the console, and how other customers are using Dataflow. We also talked about Machine Learning, starting from selecting the right ML solution to Machine Learning APIs on cloud to exploring Vertex AI. Following that we look into API management in Google Cloud and how Apigee helps operate your APIs with enhanced scale, security, and automation.We ended the series with the last two episodes focusing around security deep-dive and using Cloud Tasks and Cloud Scheduler.Coming up next – The Grow SeriesDive into the next chapter of this multi-series, with our upcoming Grow Series, where we will be focusing on growing and attaining scale with deployments on Google Cloud.Check out our website and join us by checking out the video series on the Google Cloud Tech channel, and subscribe to stay up to date. See you in the cloud!
Quelle: Google Cloud Platform

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December Extensions Roundup: Improving Visibility for Your APIs and Images

It’s time for the holidays, and we’ve got some exciting new Docker Extensions to share with you! Docker extensions build new functionality into Docker Desktop, extend its existing capabilities, and allow you to discover and integrate additional tools that you’re already using with Docker. Let’s take a look at two exciting new extensions from December.

And if you’d like to see everything available, check out our full Extensions Marketplace!

Move faster with API endpoints with Akita

Are you working on a new service or shipping lots of changes? Do you have a handle on which of your API endpoints might be slow or which ones are throwing errors? With the Akita API extension for Docker Desktop, you can find this out in a few minutes.

The Akita API Docker extension makes it easy to try out Akita without additional work. With Akita, you can:

See your API endpoints.

See slow endpoints and endpoints with errors.

Automatically monitor across your endpoints.

The Akita API extension is in beta. To join Akita’s beta, sign up here. 

Get more visibility with Dive-In

There are many advantages to keeping your container sizes small. Often, that starts with keeping your Docker image small as well. But it can sometimes be hard to understand where to start or which layers can be reduced. With the Dive-In Docker extension, you can explore your docker image and its layer contents, then discover ways to shrink the size of your Docker/OCI image. 

With the Dive-In extension, you can:

View the total size of your image.

Identify the inefficient bytes.

See an efficiency score.

Identify the largest files in your image.

View the size of each layer in your image.

Dive-In is an open source extension. Feel free to contribute or raise issues on https://github.com/prakhar1989/dive-in.

Building extensions? We’d love to hear from you!

Adding new extensions to the Extensions Marketplace is really exciting and we’d love to see more from our partners and the community. If you’re currently working on an extension or have built one in the past, we’d love to hear from you! And you can help us improve the developer experience for our Extensions SDK by taking this short survey.

Check out the latest Docker Extensions with Docker Desktop

Docker is always looking for ways to improve the developer experience. Check out these resources for more info on extensions:

Install Docker Desktop for Mac, Windows, or Linux to try extensions yourself.

Visit our Extensions Marketplace to see all of our extensions.

Build your own extension with our Extensions SDK.

Quelle: https://blog.docker.com/feed/