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Career & Teams — Deno is joining Cloudflare

Deno is joining Cloudflare

The Deno team is joining Cloudflare to radically simplify self-hosting Workers and Durable Objects, so developers can use the same primitives in more places.

KVKenton VardaKenton Varda·October 9, 2026Career & Teams
SRE & Ops — Bridging technical depth and usability: The story behind Radar’s redesign

Bridging technical depth and usability: The story behind Radar’s redesign

We redesigned Cloudflare Radar to make real-time global traffic and outage data accessible to a wider audience — including journalists, less technical researchers, and everyday users. By introducing an interactive map and standardized components, we simplified navigation while preserving technical depth.

SASophia Alfred·October 8, 2026SRE & Ops
Engineering — Monte-Carlo simulations

Monte-Carlo simulations

Monte Carlo simulations (or methods ) is the technique of applying randomness and the Law of large numbers to the solution of various scientific and engineering problems. One of its first documented uses was by Stanislaw Ulam and John von Neumann for nuclear weapon simulations after WWII [1] . In this post …

EBEli Bendersky·October 7, 2026Engineering
AI & ML — Secret protection must scale with software

Secret protection must scale with software

Developers aren’t becoming more careless; they’re being outpaced. The tools that let developers create more software should also take on more of the work of protecting it.

EHErin HavensErin Havens·October 7, 2026AI & ML
Databases — Cyberworld and CYBERTEC

Cyberworld and CYBERTEC

This blog talks about the experience at BSides Tallinn emphasizing on Database security. Read to know more.

BVBeekay Verma·October 6, 2026Databases
Networking — NTS: Authenticated Time at Meta

NTS: Authenticated Time at Meta

Meta’s public time service now speaks NTS (Network Time Security, RFC 8915) at nts.meta.com. Packets are authenticated, so a device can verify the time came from us and was not modified on the way. Our NTS servers hold no per-client state. Cookie keys are derived, not stored and not replicated. We’ve open sourced everything, including [...] Read More... The post NTS: Authenticated Time at Meta app

MEMeta Engineering·October 6, 2026Networking
Security — Everything we launched during Birthday Week 2026

Everything we launched during Birthday Week 2026

We celebrated our 16th birthday with 46 announcements across open source, post-quantum security, AI agents, and developer platform upgrades. Here’s a day-by-day roundup of everything we shipped.

CACarlos Armada·October 5, 2026Security
Security — One year later: the power of 1.1.1.1 interns

One year later: the power of 1.1.1.1 interns

A year after announcing our goal to hire 1,111 interns, more than 750 early-career builders have shipped real products across 48 teams at Cloudflare. From Birthday Week launches to post-quantum security, our interns prove that AI amplifies human potential instead of replacing it.

KRKelly RussellKelly Russell·October 5, 2026Security
AI & ML — ReviewBench: An open benchmark for AI code review

ReviewBench: An open benchmark for AI code review

We’re launching ReviewBench, a benchmark for code review agents built on representative GitHub pull requests, multi-source ground truth, calibrated evaluation, and production-aligned metrics.

MZMichelle Zhou·October 5, 2026AI & ML
AI & ML — Introducing Web Search API via AI Gateway

Introducing Web Search API via AI Gateway

Cloudflare AI Gateway now supports native web search API integration in partnership with Ceramic.ai, Exa, and Linkup. Developers can now inject real-time web context into model inference calls via AI Gateway, REST APIs, or Workers bindings.

MCMichelle Chen·October 2, 2026AI & ML
SRE & Ops — 8 major updates to Cloudflare Observability

8 major updates to Cloudflare Observability

Cloudflare is launching eight major updates that bring logs, traces, analytics, alerts, dashboards, querying, and telemetry export into one observability platform, with simpler and more predictable pricing.

NSNevi Shah·October 2, 2026SRE & Ops