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Could we get more cache space with the same hardware? We prototyped compression inside Cloudflare's cache to find out.

This blog is about how CYPEX can cut costs on building internal tools.

About a year ago, I was offered a presentation slot at the WeAreDevelopers World Congress in Berlin. I rarely take speaking engagements, especially international ones, but this one arrived at just the right time, the right place, and with the right person – I said yes, on the contingency that Ben Dumke-von der Ehe joins me in the presentation. Ben is an early community hire at Stack Overflow who l

Could there be a better way to welcome the new month than with a new collection of desktop wallpapers? Whether you’re holding tightly onto summer or eagerly awaiting autumn, we’ve got some eye-catching designs to make your September just a bit more colorful. Enjoy!

Bot operators now have a home in the Cloudflare dashboard to manage submissions. This update adds submission status tracking, submission editing, and a behavior model so operators can accurately declare how their bots use content.

This is an extended blog, and talks about the features of pgwatch v6.0.0 beta in more details. Read to know and contribute.

How Vercel built Workflow SDK: durable workflows that feel like ordinary code, run on infrastructure you already have, and aim to make steps free.

This blog explains all feature highlights related to PGWatch 6.0.0 beta. You can read to understand and test the features yourself.

Vercel Connect is now generally available. Agents request short-lived, scoped tokens at runtime instead of storing provider secrets that never expire.

Cloudflare OAuth now supports optional scopes, giving users more control over what an app can access and helping developers build secure consent flows around the task at hand.

Platforms like DoorDash, Meta, and Deel are already paying global workers in stablecoins. We surveyed 2,300 workers in 20 countries to see what's driving stablecoin demand, where the opportunity is highest, and how other platforms can adapt.

Vercel Agent now works in Slack. Mention @Vercel to diagnose incidents, review PRs, and ship approved changes without leaving the conversation. In public beta for Pro and Enterprise teams.

Vercel is running a two-week, public HackerOne program with up to $1,000,000 in bounties for researchers who can escape a Vercel Sandbox.

Two new product upgrades make it easy for global businesses to manage FX entirely on Stripe. We’re expanding multicurrency settlement to more markets and currencies, and we’re introducing the ability to convert currencies instantly—all on Stripe.

Introducing Cloudflare Access for Workers. Attach an Access policy directly to a Worker and it applies everywhere that Worker runs — routes, custom domains, workers.dev, and previews — automatically.

Cloudflare's data shows a clear impact on Internet traffic from Iceland to Spain and Portugal, following the path of totality of the total solar eclipse that occurred on August 12, 2026.

Análisis técnicos profundos, actualizaciones de productos y conocimientos de los equipos que ayudan a construir una Internet mejor.

The GitHub Universe session catalog is live. Explore interactive workshops, community talks, demos, and panels. Plus, register before August 19 to save $300.

Open-weight models that allow perform offensive research present an emerging cybersecurity challenge. But you do not need to wait for specialized models to begin defensive cybersecurity work.

Our latest Agents Week has come to a close. Here’s a recap of all the announcements we made, from Wallets to Radar.

Cloudflare is shifting bot mitigation from point-in-time Risk assessment to continuous Trust evaluation. Learn how new good and bad behaviors from bots and agents are assessed by our systems, including BotBase and Precursor — and try out our Precursor Trace simulation to see how your own cursor movements would be assessed as human or bot.

Cloudflare OS is an open-source platform that lets everyone in your company build apps, automate work, and safely access internal systems, shaped around what your organization knows and how it operates.

At Cloudflare, we knew we could not depend on every employee to configure every agent perfectly or watch every tool call. Before expanding write access across our own internal MCP servers, we built WriteGuard. We are now bringing those controls to Cloudflare MCP server portals through a private beta.

How we compress production failures into model weights every day, beat frontier-model quality, and cut serving costs 96%.

Cloudflare has launched a new Billable Usage API for accounts, giving developers and FinOps teams single-endpoint programmatic visibility into cost and usage across all self-serve products. Built around the FOCUS specification, spend can now be tracked seamlessly alongside the rest of your cloud stack.

From treating code as a proposal to turning handoffs into conversations, here's how we shaped a new way of working to ship nested folders.






Szczegółowe analizy techniczne, aktualizacje produktów oraz spostrzeżenia zespołów, które pomagają tworzyć lepszy Internet.

Whether you’re enjoying some well-earned time off this August or are jumping headfirst into a new project, how about some new desktop wallpapers to accompany you on all those big and small adventures the month might bring? Well, we’ve got you covered!

Chrome 151 becomes the first to ship the <usermedia> element.

We built an agentic code review and test oracle harness that discovers vulnerabilities, proves them with real tests, and provides Shopify-tuned fixes.

Cloudflare Radar tracked Internet disruptions driven by natural disasters, government-mandated shutdowns, and DNSSEC key rollovers over the last quarter. This post analyzes traffic telemetry to explain how these events impacted global connectivity.


Perhaps you’ve seen something that should sail out of cache get dragged back to the origin. Cache Response Rules is the fix, applied at the right time.

Safari TP 248 becomes the first to trial the no-clamp keyword for the progress() function.

Sitecore and Vercel Partnership

With 3B+ firewall blocks and 99.999+% uptime, top ecommerce brands like Under Armour, Fanatics, and ASICS trust Vercel’s Managed Infrastructure to handle the demand and ship with confidence.

NuxtLabs, creators of Nuxt and Nitro, are joining Vercel. Same license, roadmap, and open governance, but now in a joint mission to build the best web.

David Totten joins Vercel as VP of Global Field Engineering from Databricks to oversee Sales Engineering, Developer Success, Professional Services, and Customer Support Engineering under one integrated organization

Last month, Vercel had the privilege of sponsoring AfroTech Conference 2022. This was our approach.

Phân tích kỹ thuật chuyên sâu, cập nhật sản phẩm và góc nhìn từ các đội ngũ đang góp phần xây dựng một Internet tốt hơn.

Firefox 153 ships the Picture-in-Picture API, which is now Baseline.

Firefox 153 improves interoperability for muted and :muted, popover=hint, ::-webkit-scrollbar, and elements nested inside <select> elements.


To understand what can influence win rates, we analyzed evidence packets from one million disputes over a 16-week period. Here’s what the data shows and what it means for how you mitigate disputes.



Ulasan teknis mendalam, pembaruan produk, dan wawasan dari tim yang membantu membangun Internet yang lebih baik.

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غوص تقني عميق، وتحديثات المنتجات، ورؤى من الفرق التي تساعد في بناء إنترنت أفضل.

סקירות טכניות מעמיקות, עדכוני מוצר ותובנות מהצוותים שתורמים לבניית אינטרנט טוב יותר.

Tekniska djupdykningar, produktuppdateringar och insikter från teamen som hjälper till att bygga ett bättre internet.

Teknik derinlemesine analizler, ürün güncellemeleri ve daha iyi bir İnternet inşa etmeye yardımcı olan ekiplerden içgörüler.

New to GitHub? This beginner’s guide explains version control, repositories, and pull requests—plus everything else you need to start working confidently on GitHub.


Over the past few years, we’ve been on a journey to modernise how we run Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances at Slack. In our first post, Advancing Our Chef Infrastructure, we shared how we moved from a single Chef stack to a resilient, multi-stack setup with versioned cookbook deployments and safer promotion workflows. This…